High expectations matter. By now, there is quite a bit of research suggesting that what teachers expect from their students can play a role in what happens in the classroom. Research also examines so-called wise feedback: critical feedback in which teachers make clear they have high standards while also indicating they believe the student can… Read More What happens when teachers are asked to communicate high expectations?
Over the years I have been blogging, I have rarely let what I think you would like to read guide me. The past few weeks have also taught me that I really can’t predict this. For instance, I would never have expected the number of readers for my post about Gert Biesta. The choice always… Read More What happens when you restrict tutoring, but the competition remains?
Normally, Roya compares people in the US with people in France or other places, but now she has a question… Check here for more Funny on Sunday.
Learning and Instruction has a special issue on hybrid learning, which combines face-to-face learning with online technology. The introductory article by Gaëlle Molinari and colleagues nicely summarises what we know and don’t know from the still young field of research on hybrid learning. First, what do the researchers mean by hybrid learning here? Here, they mean… Read More What do we know and not know about hybrid learning?
Earlier this week I wrote that multimodal learning can work. And for learning a foreign language, too, we have known for some time that it can help not only to hear the word and the translation, but also, for example, to see an image or make a gesture. But what works better? Is it primarily… Read More Do gestures help you learn foreign words better than images?
Let me start this post with a confession. I’ve had a somewhat complicated relationship with Gert Biesta’s work ever since I first heard him speak live, back when I was still working at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences. Often when I read something he wrote, I will think: yes, of course. But I often notice… Read More Who is Gert Biesta actually arguing with?
Some countries currently look to England as an education model. It might then surprise some that someone like Daisy Christodoulou wrote a rather sombre post about the state of what some in England call the ‘trad’ movement. She reacted to an article by Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph, in which the familiar argument resurfaces that… Read More When evidence becomes an educational identity
I often talk and write about collective teacher (or rather, team) efficacy. This collective belief that you can make a difference as a team can have a huge impact on learning, but… This becomes difficult when the team is constantly changing. Teacher turnover is rarely good for a school. When teachers leave, experience is lost… Read More Teacher turnover affects all students
I have been blogging about (primarily) educational research for over a decade now. Often, this involves new studies that I summarise, annotate, and try to place within what we already know. But what if the way you communicate research actually matters hardly at all? Through René Kneyber, I discovered a new study by Samuel Sims… Read More Why I’m not quitting blogging just yet
I have written a couple of posts about Alpha School over the past year. And some of them are a little sharper than what I normally write. In fact, there are three rants (1, 2 and 3) and one more moderate post. Benjamin Riley has written much more about this. So I was quite surprised… Read More A more nuanced video about Alpha School than you might expect