Podcast 44: Be A Learning Spy, Keep An Eye On New Tech

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In this Podcast:

David Didau is education writer, trainer and speaker. Over the past 15 years, David Didau has worked with hundreds of schools in the UK and overseas. He leads bespoke training and provides consultancy on a wide range of topics including:

• Implementing findings from cognitive psychology in teaching
• Behaviour management
• Understanding education research and evidence
• Whole-school literacy
• Feedback, assessment & marking
• Curriculum design.
• As a specialist English teacher, he also works regularly with English departments in a variety of capacities.

Useful Links:

1. The Secret of Literacy, urged teachers to ‘make the implicit explicit’. Teachers are highly literate but often have little idea how they are able to do what they do. Often teachers just assume students can do what they can do. Breaking down and codifying what teachers are able to do, allows them to teach reading and writing more effectively.

2. What If Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong? explores the idea that much of what happens in schools is based on unexamined assumptions. My most important insight is, contrary to our  intuitions, learning is invisible. All we can see is what students can do and from that we infer what they might have learned. But students’ performance turns out to be a very poor proxy for predicting long-term retention and the ability to transfer skills and concepts between different contexts.

This simple observation is well supported by research evidence and classroom observations, but widely ignored in education. If true, many of the sacred cows of teaching are in doubt. The ways teachers teach, curriculums are organised and teachers held to account might all rest on a misapprehension of how learning happens. In the book, I suggest how we might go about rethinking education in order to realign schools with how children actually.

3. Book, What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Psychology, co-written with Nick Rose, does exactly what the title suggests – discussing the classroom implications of the psychological principles most useful in an educational context.

4. David’s Website

5. Reading List from David