Articles

I’m a deputy headteacher, focusing on how to improve the culture, curriculum and teaching in schools.

Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology
• Why students forget
• Science of learning
• Science of memory
• Three applications of cognitive science
• Moral psychology
• Psychology of self-control

Student Culture

• Ethos
• Self-discipline
• Willpower
• Behaviour
• Gratitude
• Rewards
• Motivation and instruction
• Motivation and emotion
• Motivation and mindset anchoring
• Motivation and peer pressure

Staff Culture

• Burnout
• Workload
• CPD
• Observations
• SEX
• All Blacks
• England, Champions
• Cognitive Biases
• Cognitive Traps
• Leadership

Curriculum

• Curriculum Design
• Knowledge
• Double Helix
• Unit Planning

Teaching

• Knowledge Lessons
• Effective Instruction
• Practice
• Renewable Resources
• Knowledge Organisers
• Multiple Choice Questions
• Multiple Choice Design
• Mnemonics
• Assessment Mistakes

Ideas

• Daniel Willingham
• Siegfried Engelmann
• E.D. Hirsch
• Michel Thomas
• Daisy Christodoulou
• Tom Bennett
• Luke Sparkes
• History of Education
• Shakespeare’s Schooling
• King’s Wimbledon
• Moonwalking with Einstein