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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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