I have blogged before about making learning stick – typical techniques that teachers use to help ensure that ‘information’ becomes ‘knowledge’ – which is, of course, what good teaching is…

I think that all subjects that include a substantial body of content - which means all or almost all discrete subjects taught in secondary school - should be taught using…

The question, What is school for? elicits a range of different answers, including (in no particular order):   Personal development: developing character; attending to ‘the whole child’; helping children and…

‘Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others’. Marcus Tullius Cicero Gratitude is ‘the feeling or quality of being grateful’, according to the Cambridge…

1. Teachers must ‘make learning fun’ Learning is hard. It requires focused effort over time, and teachers need to design learning activities that match the content they are teaching (the…

A leader is a dealer in hope      Napoleon Good leadership and bad leadership Context clearly has a big impact on the exercise of leadership: leadership in a crisis…

Pre-testing means giving learners a test on a new topic before teaching it*. For example, a teacher of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (RPE) is about to teach students a unit…

If we want to remember something, we really ought to think hard about it.  ‘We remember what we think about’, says Daniel Willingham; the reason we remember is because it’s thinking about new…

If I could only choose 5 key characteristics that make a big difference to how well young people learn… A HBK learner: Behaves well: even when no one is watching;…

If you could only pick one leadership quality, what would it be? At the weekend, while my Bakewell lemon tart was browning, I made a list of ‘Important Leadership Qualities’…