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Educationalist, Author, Writer, Consultant, Orator, Liberal Artist. A teacher with 20 years experience of working in State schools in London, Martin was an Advanced Skills Teacher, Head of Department, Head of Faculty and an Assistant Head Teacher. Martin is interested in developing Teaching and Learning by building on the tradition of grammar, dialectic and rhetoric. Martin is currently working on two more books, more will be revealed soon! Order your copy now! .

I delivered this talk at the Festival of Education 2017. From my notes and my memory, here is what I said. It is very long and borrows from previous blogs and tweets. I want to argue that education suffers in the U. because we focus too much on how to teach, often in the name of pedagogy, at the expense of any real emphasis on what to teach.

Planning for Inquiry-based Physical Education. Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand. My favourite moment was every moment. When I was a kid, I used to see faces in everything.

If you have any kind of new idea or question, twitter allows you.

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.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. This is the homepage of Greg Ashman, a teacher living and working in Australia. Nothing that I write or that I link to necessarily reflects the view of my school. Taking a critical look at praise.

Thoughts about English teaching and education in general. What is book scrutiny? From scrutinising learning to understanding learning. The process of understanding student learning, rather than sat. The teaching sequence for independence.

Collaboration is now the sine qua non.

That teachers would like to be removed from the curriculum. But since I wrote it I thought I might as well share it here. Ultimately, if we want to know what should be cut from primary, we should probably ope.