Because learning is too important to be left to chance.

ManYana Ltd, Achieving Tomorrow, Today. Education, training and consultancy. Tuesday, 29 March 2016. When you set an activity, or tell a story, or show a video to help a child learn one of the inevitable consequences is that they will devote some of their thinking to extraneous matters. Some of these are difficult to avoid. The argument you had with your mate. The fact that the room is too cold or too hot. For the above poster .

Marginal learning gains is inspired by the same philosophy that underpinned the extraordinary success of Team GB Cycling at the Beijing and London Olympics. Once you do this, aggregating the gains you make will become part of a bigger impact on learning. For students, for teachers and schools.

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For able and interested students in York. Years 9, 10 and 11. Spires, Stones and Gargoyles. 2013 Year 7 Summer School. 2013 Year 7 Summer School Artwork. How do I get involved? Summer School 2015 Photographs.

A guide to this blog. I write about teaching, research, curriculum and assessment, teacher training, leadership and the education system. Knowledge, memory and practice. Three applications of cognitive science. Visible learning and cognitive science.

7 kids in 7 days. Does DIRT work in maths? I adore the idea of DIRT. This is my standard procedure. I set and mark an exercise with a selection of problem types from the last 4 lessons. how am I expecting them to successfully answer the questions? For my lower set.