'Bjork & Bjork's Desirable Difficulties in Action' by Jade Pearce and Isaac Moore
Bjork and Bjork's Desirable Difficulties in Action by Jade Pearce and Isaac Moore is a snappy and helpful guide to a crucial idea in teaching and learning.
Read MoreBjork and Bjork's Desirable Difficulties in Action by Jade Pearce and Isaac Moore is a snappy and helpful guide to a crucial idea in teaching and learning.
Read MoreWhere are we with the Additional Assessment Component in Leaving Certificate English in the context of AI? (illustration: typically terrible AI generated picture)
Read MoreSome notes from researchED Belfast on Saturday 28th September 2024.
Read MoreIn Teaching One-Pagers Jamie Clark presents complex educational ideas in a pleasingly succinct and jargon-free format.
Read MoreThe third edition of The Occasional, for paid subscribers of The Fortnightly, on received ideas in and clichés about Irish eduction.
Read MoreA memory of perfect classes discussing The Portrait of a Lady.
Read MoreComments on Alex Quigley’s book Why Learning Fails (and what to do about it),
Read MoreAndrew Atherton’s Experiencing English Literature: shaping authentic student response in thinking and writing provides stimulating ideas for English teachers at all stages of their careers.
Read MoreJottings on Generative AI and English teaching.
Read MoreSome thoughts on the first three years of English Meets at St Columba’s College.
Read MoreA review of Carol Atherton’s Reading Lessons: the books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter, with extended comments on English teaching.
Read MoreThe third English Meet is being planned for Wednesday 1st May.
Read MoreNotes and links from a Tralee Education Support Centre webinar to introduce the principles of cognitive science to English teachers in Ireland who are unfamiliar with them. January 2024.
Read MoreA recommendation for my most-used classroom tool, the iOS app Notability.
Read MoreTom Needham’s Explicit English Teaching is a rare example of a book for our subject that is based on the principles of cognitive science.
Read MoreA list of the BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ episodes about Shakespeare.
Read MoreThe authors in Kate Jones’s selection of essays looking at the basics of cognitive science explain key concepts in a valuably accessible way.
Read MoreRos Atkins’s The Art of Explanation: how to communicate with clarity and confidence is a fascinating fine-grained account of how he has reached the status of one of broadcasting’s most impressive ‘explainers’.
Read MoreIdeas for the use of a Ros Atkins ‘explainer’ in English class.
Read MoreGreg Ashman’s Cognitive Load Theory in the Little Guide for Teachers series is a lucid short book on this important idea.
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