Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend Victoria Bagnall‘s Executive Functions are the cogs behind cognition: Neuroplasticity, Dyslexia and Neurodiversity live talk at The Dyslexia Show at the NEC Birmingham.
Category: Educational Research
Life Long Learning
As educators, we are much more aware of the need to be developing life long learning ourselves and for our pupils and their families, and how beneficial it is to have an open mindset towards learning and change.
Fact or Myth?
You have to be fast to be good…’ ‘Some people just can’t do Maths, so there’s no point in trying…’
These are just two of the myths around Maths and Maths learning. These myths and others have been debunked in educational research many times over. I have been reading some of this research to keep myself abreast of educational theory.
Are you an inchworm or a grasshopper?
There is an analogy in maths teaching which asks ‘are you an inchworm or a grasshopper?’ ‘What is an inchworm?’ Now for us Brits, the first question is actually ‘what is an inchworm?’ So just to fill that in straight away for you they are one of those caterpillars that move forward by arching and […]