Curriculum related expectations: the specificity problem
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David Didau Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 21, 2020
The problem with grades: Are they worth keeping?
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David Didau Exam grades GCSEs
  • Nov 15, 2020
Why we need to embrace ignorance and learn to love uncertainty
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David Didau School improvement
  • Nov 1, 2020
The road to hell
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David Didau
  • Nov 24, 2019
The trouble with Shakespeare - or should everything be easy?
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David Didau Shakespeare
  • Oct 26, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Conclusion: Shifting the bell curve
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David Didau
  • Jan 11, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 10: Struggle and success
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David Didau
  • Jan 10, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 9: Practice makes permanent
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David Didau
  • Jan 9, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 8: What knowledge?
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David Didau
  • Jan 7, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 7: You are what you know
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David Didau
  • Jan 6, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer - Chapter 6: How memory works
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  • Jan 5, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 5: Can we get cleverer?
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David Didau
  • Jan 4, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 4: Nature via nurture
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  • Jan 3, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer - Chapter 3: Is intelligence the answer?
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David Didau
  • Jan 2, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 2: Built by culture
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David Didau
  • Jan 1, 2019
Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 1: The purpose of education
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David Didau
  • Dec 31, 2018
David Didau: What’s the best (and easiest) way to teach?
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David Didau
  • Sep 25, 2018
David Didau: What if everything you knew about mindsets and resilience was wrong?
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David Didau researchED
  • Sep 24, 2018
Born stupid
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David Didau Intelligence IQ
  • Sep 15, 2018
Why English is not a ‘skills based’ subject
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David Didau Learning Spy English
  • Apr 27, 2018
Leading literacy in schools
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Learning Spy David Didau Literacy
  • Apr 25, 2018
The nail in growth mindset’s coffin?
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Mindset David Didau Learning Spy
  • Mar 6, 2018
12 rules for schools: Rule 7 pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
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David Didau Learning Spy
  • Feb 19, 2018
Handwriting matters
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David Didau Learning Spy Handwriting
  • Feb 13, 2018
12 rules for schools: Rule 6 set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world
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David Didau Learning Spy
  • Feb 7, 2018
12 rules for Schools – Rule 5 do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
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David Didau Learning Spy Behaviour
  • Feb 2, 2018
12 rules for schools – Rule 4 compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
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David Didau Learning Spy
  • Jan 26, 2018
12 rules for schools – Rule 3 make friends with people who want the best for you
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David Didau Learning Spy
  • Jan 24, 2018
Good intentions are not good enough
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Teachers Teaching David Didau Learning Spy
  • Jan 23, 2018
12 rules for schools – Rule 2 treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
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David Didau Learning Spy Resources
  • Jan 22, 2018
Getting culture right Part 2: Understanding group psychology
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David Didau Learning Spy Resources
  • Jan 12, 2018
Teaching to make children cleverer (part 3)
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Teaching Teachers Resources David Didau Learning Spy
  • Jan 10, 2018
Teaching to make children cleverer: Part 1
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Teaching Teachers David Didau Learning Spy Intelligence
  • Jan 5, 2018
Reading aloud might boost students’ memories
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David Didau Reading
  • Dec 7, 2017
The best books I’ve read this year
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David Didau Books Reading
  • Dec 6, 2017
Thought depends on knowledge
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Attainment David Didau
  • Dec 5, 2017
What *does* improve children’s writing?
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Writing Grammar schools Improvement Outcomes David Didau
  • Dec 1, 2017
Can grammar teaching improve pupils’ writing?
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David Didau Grammar Writing Literacy TEFL English
  • Nov 29, 2017
Leading literacy in schools
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Learning Spy David Didau Literacy
  • Oct 17, 2017
On being called a racist
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The Learning Spy David Didau Racism
  • Aug 17, 2017
Differences and similarities  
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Aug 16, 2017
Two fallacies to avoid
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Aug 14, 2017
What causes behaviour?
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David Didau The Learning Spy Behaviour
  • Aug 10, 2017
Getting culture right Part 1: Normative messages
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The Learning Spy David Didau Culture
  • Aug 2, 2017
Why I don’t think emojis should be studied in school
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Jul 20, 2017
Beware the nuance trap
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers
  • Jul 15, 2017
Conscious and unconscious minds: Implications for teaching and learning literacy
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers Teaching Literacy
  • Jul 15, 2017
If not knowledge, what?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teaching
  • Jul 14, 2017
What is a broad and balanced curriculum?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Curriculum
  • Jul 8, 2017
Two types of learning – which one is best?
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Jul 4, 2017
Put down your crystal balls
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The Learning Spy David Didau Pupil performance Progress
  • Jul 3, 2017
Whatever the question is, intelligence is the answer
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The Learning Spy David Didau Intelligence
  • Jun 25, 2017
“Understanding” and Occam’s razor
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Jun 24, 2017
A novice→expert model of learning
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Jun 21, 2017
How helpful is Hattie & Donoghue’s model of learning? Part 2: The meta analyses
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The Learning Spy David Didau Learning
  • Jun 18, 2017
How helpful is Hattie & Donoghue’s model of learning? Part 1: The problem with depth
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teaching
  • Jun 17, 2017
The secret of successful schools: the Anna Karenina Principle
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The Learning Spy David Didau School performance Curriculum
  • Jun 14, 2017
Ability is the consequence not the cause of what children learn
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The Learning Spy David Didau Attainment Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jun 13, 2017
David Didau: Swearing
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The Learning Spy David Didau Language
  • May 30, 2017
What does the Theory of Multiple Intelligences tell us abut how to teach?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Theories Intelligence
  • May 26, 2017
Reframing the debate: It’s not what you do, it’s why you do it
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers Teaching
  • May 23, 2017
What teachers need to know about intelligence – Part 2: The effects of education
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The Learning Spy David Didau Intelligence
  • May 22, 2017
What teachers need to know about intelligence – Part 1: Why IQ matters
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • May 21, 2017
Should teachers do what children want?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers Students Teaching Mental health
  • May 19, 2017
Can we improve school interviews? Part 3: The interview lesson
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers Teacher recruitment Teaching
  • May 11, 2017
Can we improve school interviews Part 2
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers Teacher recruitment
  • May 10, 2017
Can we improve school interviews? Part 1
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The Learning Spy Teachers Teacher recruitment David Didau
  • May 9, 2017
Easy is easy, hard is hard
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The Learning Spy David Didau Students Behaviour Discipline Curriculum Teachers
  • May 8, 2017
Practice vs. talent: five principles for effective teaching
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • May 6, 2017
Is resilience even a thing?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Resilience
  • May 3, 2017
Everyone values critical thinking, don’t they?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Critical thinking
  • May 2, 2017
David Didau: why group socialisation theory argues against grammar schools
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The Learning Spy David Didau Katharine Birbalsingh Grammar schools Selective education
  • Apr 30, 2017
David Didau unwittingly argues for selection
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To Miss with Love Katharine Birbalsingh David Didau Grammar schools Selective education
  • Apr 30, 2017
David Didau: why ‘grammar schools for all’ won’t work
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The Learning Spy David Didau Grammar schools
  • Apr 30, 2017
Are you fooling yourself? Education and epidemiology
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Apr 29, 2017
Is 'our knowledge' different from theirs?
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Apr 14, 2017
David Didau: a summary of my arguments about education
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Apr 13, 2017
Neo-progressivism
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The Learning Spy David Didau Social inequality
  • Apr 9, 2017
David Didau: the problem with ‘reading along’
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The Learning Spy David Didau
  • Mar 25, 2017
What do teachers believe?
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The Learning Spy David Didau Teachers Learning styles
  • Mar 16, 2017
Should we give teachers the ‘benefit of the doubt’?
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The Learning Spy Underperforming David Didau
  • Mar 3, 2017
Education isn’t natural – that’s why it’s hard
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The Learning Spy David Didau Psychology
  • Feb 24, 2017