The Six Secrets For Creating Excellent Schools
johndabell What are the six secrets of a great school? If you want to know more then take a look at Fallacies in Education: Why Schools Are Mired in Mediocrity by…
August 2021
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is a logical fallacy based on the metaphor of a gunman shooting the side of a barn, then drawing targets around the bullet-hole clusters to make…
The Frayer Model
The ‘Frayer model‘ is a well-used and familiar graphic organiser and an effective model for introducing or exploring existing vocabulary. First proposed by Dorothy Frayer and her colleagues at the…
The Rashomon Effect in the Playground
The Rashomon effect is a term related to the notorious unreliability of eyewitnesses. The witnesses’ unreliability and subjectivity are a result of situational, social and cultural differences. The term “Rashomon…
The Sworn Statement
How do you hold students accountable for their reading? If you are a smart teacher teaching smarter then you will strip back the white noise, do away with the superfluous…
The Pollyanna Principle
How often do you play the ‘glad game’? Pollyanna played it all the time and it would do us all the world of good to do the same. Pollyanna lives…
Teachers And The Pratfall Effect
Teachers need to make deliberate mistakes. You will probably make enough naturally but it’s worth going out of your way to stage a couple of blunders in front of a…
DJ Teachers
I came across a sketchplanation by Jono Hey about what a good teacher is: Now this is spot on and worth exploring further. Are teachers like DJs? Yes we are,…
The Streisand Effect
The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicising that information. It is named…
Lighting Bonfires
Do you have a chit-chat over a kit-kat when it’s breaktime or do you squirrel yourself away in your classroom? There isn’t a right or wrong answer, unless of course…