Educational Cargo Cults And The Bandwagon Effect
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…
Every Day Is A School Day
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…
Peter Pan syndrome refers to someone who does not want to enter adult life. In J. M. Barrie's classic 1904 play, Peter Pan is a boy who refuses to grow…
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…
Do you have a word conscious classroom? Jacob Rees-Mogg, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, has issued a set of rules for staff in his…
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…
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…
We all make mistakes and we are often wrong. Show me a teacher who hasn't dropped some clangers. Some errors we might say were avoidable but some not so. An…
Can you 'infect' others with the way you think and what implications would this have in a school? The way we think really can go viral because positive or negative,…
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…
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…