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This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  To help pupils learn, we need to provide them with plentiful opportunities to practise, receive feedback, reflect, and then act uponContinue reading “The open loop”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This article is about planned lessons not lesson plans. I do not advocate spending your evenings and weekends writing detailed proContinue reading “A lesson plan is not a planned lesson”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here. This is the final instalment in a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far.  I started this 10-part series by askingContinue reading “The learning process: Part 10”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part nine of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. As we have discovering in this series,Continue reading “The learning process: Part 9”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part eight of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interactionContinue reading “The learning process: Part 8”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part seven of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interactionContinue reading “The learning process: Part 7”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part six of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. Last time I argued that, if weContinue reading “The learning process: Part 6”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part five of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. If I asked you to calculate 57Continue reading “The learning process: Part 5”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part four of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. In this series of articles I’m exploringContinue reading “The learning process: Part 4”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part three of a 10-part series.  Read the first part  and the second part.  Last time, I argued that theContinue reading “The learning process: Part 3”