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Relentless precision - What it takes to drive high standards in schools

What I learnt from a visit to Mastery Schools Australia this week

Ollie Lovell8 days ago

If you want teachers to improve, get them to rehearse!

Practice-Based Teacher Education Pedagogies Improve Responsiveness: Evidence from a Lab Experiment - Paper summary

Ollie Lovell15 days ago

Organising ideas for effective communication

Using ideas-as-objects to organise your thinking

Ollie Lovell22 days ago

Containers and paths: Objects for thinking with

How a simple two-object model (containers and paths) can clarify thinking

Ollie Lovella month ago

When it comes to thinking, space isn't the final frontier... it's the first!

How ideas are objects and what this means for how we communicate

Ollie Lovella month ago

Start coaching with a connect and clarify conversation

Perhaps the most important conversation that you’ll ever have with your coachee is the first one

Ollie Lovell2 months ago

A more nuanced look at choice in teacher development

Ollie Lovell2 months ago

The crucial role of credible experts

What knowledge, truth-seeking, mental models, and automation have to do with expertise

Ollie Lovell3 months ago

Only use 'I wonder' if you actually wonder!

Authenticity is crucial to effective coaching

Ollie Lovell3 months ago

How knowledge is structured for experts: If-then statements

Knowing how knowledge is structured is the first step to helping our students to master it

Ollie Lovell3 months ago

Diaries vs. To-Do lists: How should students organise themselves?

What's the best way to help students to overcome organisational barriers?

Ollie Lovell3 months ago

How you can use prequestioning to boost student learning

What the most up-to-date research by Steven Pan and Shana Carpenter has to say about the use of prequestioning and pretesting

Ollie Lovell4 months ago

Google. Goanna. Go! - Capturing teaching excellence at Challis

Ollie Lovell4 months ago

True or False: 'Never write down something you don't understand'?

Thinking about ways to take better notes to learn faster

Ollie Lovell4 months ago

Strong Beginnings: Reforming initial teacher education

Barriers we face, and how we can begin to overcome them, to change ITE for the better

Ollie Lovell5 months ago

What's your essential intent?

Keeping the main thing, the main thing, through clarity and focus

Ollie Lovell5 months ago

Conscious constraints: Making learning projects manageable

How, paradoxically, constraints can set you free to learn

Ollie Lovell5 months ago

The scarcity and value of knowledge

How changes in the availability of knowledge have impacted students and society

Ollie Lovell6 months ago

1875 – 2023: What happened to teacher knowledge?

6 months ago

Insight density: Testing your information diet for quality

6 months ago

Let’s talk diets… Information diets!

7 months ago

Manage expectations to improve pre-observation conversations

7 months ago

Bug in ear coaching: The next big thing in teacher training?

7 months ago

Is Finland still worth paying attention to?

8 months ago

Getting better at writing on purpose

8 months ago