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 General teaching

There are many excellent Twitter accounts associated with these sites.

For specifically English sites and other resources go to this page instead.

Websites

  • barbaraoakley.com. Professor Oakley is, among a blizzard of other things, co-author of the world’s most-taken MOOC, Learning How to Learn.

  • daisychristodoulou.com. Site and blog of one of the most incisive thinkers about education there is. Author of Seven Myths about Education and Making Good Progress? Her new book on technology in education is eagerly awaited.

  • educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk. Lots of evidence-based resources, reports and guides on teaching and learning at all levels.

  • Efrat Hurst’s site Teaching with Learning in Mind is excellent. In her own words, “Explore the science of learning, with explanations, illustrated models and concrete examples, references to scientific literature, popular literature and blogs.”

  • fivebooks.com. Outstanding site with great riches. A simple idea: experts choose the 5 books you should read on their area of expertise. A great one for teachers to direct their pupils to: no better place for deeper reading on almost any subject.

  • johntomsett.com. One of the best-written blogs around, John Tomsett’s series of ‘This Much I Know…’ posts range across leadership, classroom teaching, mental health and more, as well as more personal pieces.

  • learningspy.co.uk. David Didau is always worth reading: check out books like Making Kids Cleverer and What if Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong?

  • marymyatt.com. Mary Myatt is one of the wisest thinkers around on teaching and schools.

  • olicav.com. Oliver Caviglioli’s tagline is ‘Visual Clarity’. Just look at the site and then think about how you present material to pupils. And then read his book Dual Coding for Teachers.

  • learningscientists.org. Superbly helpful site from 4 cognitive scientists, focussing on How We Learn (the title of their book). Lots of well-designed resources, including ones directed at students.

  • researched.org.uk. This doesn’t hold any resources, but instead links to the many events that now take place all over the world (including Dublin). The very best CPD there is.

  • retrievalpractice.org: well-organised site by Pooja K. Agarwal, with lots of resources on learning. The guides are particularly good.

  • teacherhead.com. Tom Sherrington’s site has a wealth of practical ideas for teachers, grounded in good sense and evidence-based theory. Many of these ideas have been collected in books like The Learning Rainforest, The Learning Rainforest Fieldbook and Rosenshine’s Principles in Action.

  • t-rex.ie. New Irish site with a great name (stands for Teacher Research Exchange). This should build up over time to allow teachers to connect with each other in fruitful ways.

  • walkthrus.co.uk. Materials and further support for Tom Sherrington’s and Oliver Caviglioli’s book Teaching Walkthrus: five-step guides to instructional coaching (my review here).

Podcasts

(for English and general interest podcasts, go to this page instead).

  • Craig Barton’s Maths podcast does indeed cover Maths, but he’s also got a lot of more general interest, including some lengthy really good conversations with the likes of Dylan Wiliam and Becky Allen.

  • Learning Scientists: terrific research-informed talks on a wide variety of learning matters.

  • Naylors Natter: Phil Naylor talks to the likes of Mary Myatt, David Weston and Tom Rees.

  • Research Reading Room. Ollie Lovell is an Australian teacher who has interviewed lots of great people: Daniel Willingham, Viviane Robinson, Daisy Christodoulou for a start. His book Tools for Teachers draws on these talks.

  • Staffroom. Jamie Clark’s series seems to have stopped, but there are lots of good things in the archive from 2018, including conversations with Alex Quigley, Pooja K. Agarwall and Oliver Caviglioli.

  • Trialled and Tested. The UK Education Endowment Foundation podcast is worth listening to.