Ever since reading High Fidelity, I've found Top 5s to be a useful way of navigating life.  I recently held some tutorials with som...

An outline of my first lesson: A brief welcome and hello.  Seating plan, alphabetically by first name to start with so I get to know n...

My son is 2 and a half. He asks a LOT of questions. Most of them begin "How..." or "Why..." I have frequently men...

Courtesy of Swilla Schools As we embarked on the second cycle of teaching the A Level in Religious Studies, it became apparent that I...

"A man maie well bring a horse to the water, But he can not make him drinke without he will." wrote John Heywood in A Dialogue...

"[Dylan] Wiliam’s central point: multiple choice questions can be made to be extremely difficult and challenging, and they can cer...

The new GCSE courses gives us an opportunity to implement more of what we know about how memory works. Even last year, the homework I se...

I only realised in retrospect that I got my first nugget in meta-cognition from Frank Skinner. A few years ago he spoke about getting o...

Teachers are already busy. Calls for a 'research-engaged profession' can fall on deaf ears when there is quite simply already t...

At any moment in time, that should be our aim. For too long in education we have accepted  'peddled quackery' and '...

Image courtesy of Deuces Cracked At TM Islington, I shared a 7 minute presentation on embedding some metacognition into my lessons in...

I was very honored to key note the inaugural meeting of the Herts Secondary NATRE Local Group. It was organised off the back of The Lon...

Image courtesy of A Dad First Neil Gilbride was arguing on Twitter that the oversimplification of meta-cognition and cognitive psych...

Apologies - I can't remember who took this and tweeted it to me! Thank you to everyone who said kind things about my presentation ...

Image courtesy of AV Club  taken from the Last Stop: This Town video At an Eels gig, many years ago, at the Royal Festival Hall, the l...