This piece follows on from my last blog post: ‘Managing attention in classrooms is a social justice issue’ Lots of people have written great pieces about checking for understanding (CFU) in the cla…

In Brazil in 2012, the government offered prisoners the chance to read for their lives. Their novel approach saw prisoners granted four days of remission for each book they read and reviewed. Prisone...

This is a blog about some of my favourite research findings in the field of attention. They are remarkable studies for their simplicity, the scale of the effect that they find, and the deep philoso…

It’s the right thing to do but that doesn’t mean you should

Teachers often assume students think along silently when others answer. A new study shows that unless they're actively engaged, they might not be learning much.

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

A system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Inspired by Pritesh Raichura and the brilliant blog, Bunsen Blue Every now and then, you stumble across a teaching idea that quietly but profoundly changes how you teach. For me, that moment came w…

I’m coming back to blogging after a big hiatus and finding several times that an idea for a blog post has struck me – only to find I’d written about it already! Teaching issues do…

I’ve heard it said many times that schools are like villages or towns. Cities, even. What is happening in our edu villages, towns and cities? We are losing teachers and school leaders at an alarmin…

Why optimism is often unscrupulous and positive thinking makes things worse

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The longer a teacher talks for, the more likely it is the number of pupils paying attention decreases. The trick to sustaining attention is to ask pupils questions and to expect 100% participation …