How can we each improve our understanding of the brain to improve teaching and learning?
In a short paper, published in May 2020, young children engage with leading scientists to review and edit cutting edge research! Such a brilliant concept...
Learning more about the brain
Researchers from Montreal and Tel Aviv write a short journal to help young people learn how to understand their brain - it's an interesting paper for two reasons. One, this is an area for discussion where we can all learn, plus two, young people are involved in producing the
This is the proof that children and particularly children with SEND need repetition and practise of keywords and concepts, I always use the newsround format tell them what you are going to say, say it and then repeat. If children spell, say and use the ekeywords and ideas they are much more likely to use these in tests and exams
At last! I am nearing retirement from teaching and have suffered years of frustration regarding the movement towards wooly, surface skimming pedagogy and testing/exam structures which lack rigour. Sit kids down, teach them relentlessly, test to check then re-vist learning regularly. Less focus on all-singing all- dancing flashy lessons. Not rocket science, is it?