In July last year, the principals of Paradigm Trust gave me a task: redesign Initial Teacher Training from the ground … More

My maths trainees have been teaching problem solving. These are the rules we have developed: Rule #1: Don’t give your … More

My trainee maths teachers love setting students challenging, interesting problems. I see students scribbling away trying to be first to … More

Retrieval practice is in the air. The latest blog by Alex Laney on the Teach Like a Champion blog (here) … More

“She is very confident in her decision, but subjective confidence is a poor index of accuracy of a judgement.” Kahneman, … More

Over the past year and a half I have been writing a handbook for novice physics teachers. The book is … More

“The question is not whether these experts are well trained. It is whether their world is predictable.” Daniel Kahneman, Thinking … More

Newton unified physics and astronomy: this was the first great unification in physics. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism – the … More

In 1966 Richard Feynman gave an interview about teaching physics. He described a problem with physics teaching: often students did … More

Science exams are typically examples of the difficulty model of assessment where answers are right or wrong (see Christodoulou, Making … More