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The classroom is where theory meets practice
Cognitively Guided Instruction
Guided play beats 'direction instruction'
Who needs a two-year teaching qualification?
Why teachers should not be given a voice
The metamorphosis of scholarly history
Senate launches inquiry into Australia's school behaviour crisis
Shy iconoclasts visit the museum
I have switched teaching unions
Huge fail for The Conversation
To be in control as a mathematics student
Where did germane cognitive load go?
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Is understanding more important than knowing?
A little guide for teachers: Cognitive load theory
The lack of serious politicians
More backlash against providing teachers with free lesson plans
A quarter of Australian teachers feel unsafe at work
Two steps forward and one step back
The clashing visions of Tom Bennett and Jenna Price
The case for a behaviour survey
Jenna Price’s personal attack on Tom Bennett
New South Wales is looking for a behaviour adviser
Cognitive load theory’s effects and their use in the classroom
Quality Teaching Rounds is not the solution
Structure, balance and other excuses
Is 'structured' or 'enhanced' discovery learning effective?
Dr. David Armstrong's solution to the teacher shortage
Time traveling with the Tony Blair Institute
Peter Sullivan is wrong about maths education
Evidence for Project Based Learning
How DARE you provide ME with LesSoN PLanS!
Teachers union rolls over on suspensions and expulsions
Explicit teaching is highly interactive
The motivational impact of the mundane
Dancing around the behaviour crisis
Are all curriculums knowledge based?
A Little Guide for Teachers: Cognitive Load Theory
It takes humility to grapple with the details
How to fix the teacher shortage
The revolution has only just begun
Advocates for full inclusion strike back
The boy who chose not to study literature
Teachers: Let's talk about inclusion
Is Australia about to waste a lot of money on preschool?
Activists fall out of love with Ronald Sackville
A return to 'minimal guidance'
New podcast with Judith Hochman
The school of kittens and sunshine
Hattie, The Education Endowment Foundation and meta-analysis
Eddie Woo and me talk maths teaching
Criticism of teacher education is not criticism of teachers
What explains declining senior mathematics enrolments in Australia?
It could have been worse, I suppose
The view from the top of Mount Buninyong
How do we persuade more senior students to take advanced mathematics?
Jim Al-Khalili and the curse of knowledge
Have more rigorous exams caused a decline in life satisfaction in the United Kingdom?
Is Reading Recovery reaching the end of the line?
Notes on a cancellation attempt
Why most education research is rubbish
Talking maths with Eddie Woo in Sydney
Struggle and the rote memorisation of facts
Australia's secret new curriculum
What was your teacher education like?
New South Wales government publishes attack on Cognitive Load Theory
Fireworks at The Age Schools Summit
Why I will not be helping ACARA
What can we do about cancel culture?
The demise of Teacher Talk Radio
Higher-order thinking and all that guff
Teacher training review findings leaked to Sydney Morning Herald
Wasting money and wasting time
Peter Sullivan and the draft mathematics curriculum
Pandemic and the politics of education
An exchange of emails with Dr. Danielle Colenbrander
We need to teach knowledge, not 'thinking skills'
Motivated Reading and other peculiarities
Zoe Lyons on the phonics check
Richard Branson and The Times Most Very Serious Education Commission
Decoding the 'Phonics Only' claim
Has synthetic phonics been demolished?
The infuriating usefulness of behaviourism
Are teachers making the same mistake as parents?
Amateurs tell us how to teach, again
New evidence that guided play beats direct instruction in the early years
Throwing the kitchen sink at reading
When direct instruction is less effective