Educational Cargo Cults And The Bandwagon Effect
johndabell Everyone is susceptible to cognitive biases but without understanding how they influence our thoughts, teachers may not be aware of their own lack of objectivity in decision making. Many of…
July 2019
The Peter Pan Syndrome
Peter Pan syndrome refers to someone who does not want to enter adult life.
Cognitive Error: Magnification
Magnification is an example of a cognitive distortion or thinking error. It’s also called “catastrophisation” and it can sabotage our brain. Thinking in a magnifying manner is when we exaggerate…
The Rees-Mogg Curriculum
Do you have a word conscious classroom?
Miss, I Don’t Feel Very Well
As we all know the vast majority of teachers will have no medical background whatsoever except for their own medical CVs. Most are not trained first-aiders and very few will…
Are You Guilty Of The Macabre Constant?
You might like to think you are unbiased but the reality is we are all full of biases. The Macabre Constant is a theorised bias in educational assessment that happens…
Cognitive Error: Anchoring
We all make mistakes and we are often wrong. Show me a teacher who hasn’t dropped some clangers.
Contagious Thinking
Can you ‘infect’ others with the way you think and what implications would this have in a school?
Nominative Determinism In Teaching
Your surname can have a significant role in determining key aspects of your job, profession, or even character. Some people have names that perfectly fit their chosen profession. You know…
Exploring The Recency Effect
We are all biased, even if we don’t think we are. If we flip a coin and I say, “Heads or tails?”, are you more likely to say “Heads”? One…