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Back when I was a kid, everyone wanted to learn karate.

It is my penultimate 3Rs newsletter of the academic year. As term end approaches, the baking heat continues, you may want to lay down with a cold drink to read this one!

I asked ChatGPT to make this image with the prompt: Can you produce an illustration suggesting process moving from being weak or done well only in small pockets, then a mass implementation phase where things improve but nuance and subtlety are lost and then a final phase where...

Why do experienced people mistake expertise for common sense? What looks obvious to an expert may be invisible to a novice. In schools, it’s just common sense can dismiss the very knowledge someone has not yet had the opportunity to build.

Although subject knowledge is of fundamental importance for teachers, a great teacher is far more than a walking encyclopedia.

Is the rise of adaptive teaching a sign of better inclusion, or a warning that the SEND system is struggling? Over the last year, I’ve noticed a marked increase in requests from schools and colleges for training on adaptive teaching, SEND and inclusion.

It’s the first day of a new academic year with no mistakes.

These days there is a lot of discussion about the role of commonly agreed principles and routines in teaching.

We talk about a lot of different strategies on our blog that all have been shown effective for student learning.

As higher education (HE) educators, we recognise the need to understand Gen Z (born between 1996 and 2012), who now form the majority of university students (Weng, 2024).

What if we could help teachers use cognitive science more easily?

Reading in class should be one of the richest experiences a teacher can offer.

How do we achieve classroom consistency (better teaching) without reducing teachers to compliance? Having faced this challenge myself as a school leader, I recognise that the problem is about perspective. Too often, schools chase consistency when what they really need is...

A badly designed door can make intelligent people look stupid.

In 1970, psychologists and psychiatrists were invited to a lecture on “Mathematical Game Theory as Applied to Physician Education.”

Wax on, wax off retrieval practice

The 3Rs- Reading, writing, and research to be interested in #86

The flow of ideas on the road to sustained, nuanced impact: A predictable pattern when ideas get spread at scale – and why we should embrace it

The curse of expertise: Why ‘common sense’ isn’t common

Why teacher education and knowledge matter: Insights from the Teacher Knowledge Survey

Adaptive teaching: Priority or panic?

The Gender Trap: why we're seduced by obvious explanations

Agreed principles; common routines: These are the ladders to better teaching

Retrieval practice vs worked examples: When to use which

Prensky 2.0: From digital natives to digital navigators: Rethinking Gen Z’s learning journey

The largest teacher database on science of learning

Improving reading with the R.E.A.D.S Framework

The problem with classroom consistency

Ecological psychology and the classroom

The Dr Fox Effect: Charisma, subject knowledge and the curse of expertise