Organising ideas for effective communication

Using ideas-as-objects to organise your thinking

Containers and paths: Objects for thinking with

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

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

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

A more nuanced look at choice in teacher development

The crucial role of credible experts

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

Only use 'I wonder' if you actually wonder!

Authenticity is crucial to effective coaching

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thinking about ways to take better notes to learn faster