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| | Last year I started prototyping with teaching and learning strategies based on cognitive science. I was particularly interested in how to design and structure learning to support students to consolidate knowledge and skills into long term memory. Some of the things I did were: Managing cognitive load through effective presentationsPrototyping promising practices with retrieval practice,...
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| | It is disadvantaged children who suffer most from the failures of our education systems. If you are from a relatively wealthy family then you have the resources to make-up for any deficiencies in your schooling. In many independent schools, academic performance is a basic assumption to the point where it may even be deemphasised. We...
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| | Cognitive science shows us what makes instruction effective. Long ago, primitive peoples attempted to fly by strapping feathered wings to their arms andleaping off cliffs from great heights, flapping with all their might. Despite their dreams and hard work, they invariably failed. Flight only became possible once people understood the laws of gravity, forces and...
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| Do our pupils need support for bolster their writing development? In my last blog, I posed the question about whether there was a hidden problem with the damage wrought by the pandemic on pupils who have joined secondary school. The evidence of a dip in national date at both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage...