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Black Box Teaching

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In Matthew Syed’s excellent book “Black Box Thinking,” the author explores why some professions, like airline pilots, react and respond so well to mistakes and how having a positive attitude to this has led to huge increases in passenger safety, whereas other professions are much slower and less inclined to respond to the mistakes made and therefore improvement is extremely slow. I would definitely put teaching in the second category but what are the reasons for this and what can we do about it?

By Graham Dakin

Quizzing

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Thanks to the recent books, blog posts and Twitter feeds, the mystery behind how to retain knowledge best and most effectively has been simplified to a few very simple techniques. However there is still a lot of work to be done in ensuring that these techniques are taught to all teachers and most importantly to all students.

By Graham Dakin

Curriculum Design

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The usual approach to planning a year, or a two year GCSE course, of teaching is to look at the topics and teach them one after the other. For example, in science we’ve always simply taught biology 1, then chemistry 1, then physics 1, one after the other, then revise the lot at the end for the exams.

By Phil Wilson

How hard should my work be?

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve often wondered why computer games are so compelling, so addictive to so many of our young people. To pin it down: they are just the right difficulty.

By Phil Wilson

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