Trying to apply educational research to students of all abilities and backgrounds
My summer reading book this year was the interestingly titled ‘How Behaviour Spreads’ by Damon Centola. It’s an account of a decade worth of work and goes into detail about why most of the research and assumptions made about how behaviour is spread are wrong in most situations. I was fascinated by the ideas and... Continue Reading →
There has been a recent discussion around the setting, or streaming, of students on twitter. This tweet by Dylan Wiliam seems to give a slight nudge towards mixed ability favouring less able students. https://twitter.com/dylanwiliam/status/1262037870560378882?s=20 Some people are very much in favour of sets. The use of rank order as a tool to make the setting... Continue Reading →
This blog is a result of a great twitter thread by Ben Newmark on parents' evening As I'm sitting at a parents' evening right now with a gap its made me reflect on how I've used scaling in other ways. My father is a therapist (of sorts) and showed me the value of using scaling... Continue Reading →
Reflections on Education 