"Rarely have I been so convinced by the power of a new theoretical underpinning for a pedagogical technique such as the one presented...

Advising students how to study is complex. Learning is messy, with ups and downs. Sudden insights may punctuate periods of seemingly...

During my training year I had to teach a Year 8 class (12 year-olds) the physics topic of heat. I began with a common question for the...

There is only one short cut to improving subject knowledge—reading great books. In this post I compile a selection of the books that have...

Download chapter 1 here Summary   This outstanding book... deserves to be very widely read. I hope it makes a major contribution to how...

After coming across two interesting journal papers I thought they would make excellent case studies for my students. Let me introduce,...

This preprint was vastly improved and made into Chapter 5 of my book . This is a brief summary of my new (preprint) paper in which: I...

A thought experiment: Scenario 1: Two pedagogy-passionate colleagues (of the same subject) are being observed by a non-specialist. The...

They say that feedback is not about improving the work, but about improving the learner. Yet, what aspect of the learner? Their knowledge...

Whilst reading through a rather old book called Life Cycles by Peter Calow (1978), I came across a diagram that instantly struck me as...

In lower secondary science education, chemistry and physics curricula seem to focus on developing robust explanatory models, such as the...

Cell respiration and its relationship to photosynthesis is one of the fundamental concepts of biology. It sits up high in the hierarchy...

I once approached a physics teacher to lend me his expertise and opinion on my sequence of lessons for Gravity, Mass, and Weight. His...

While the scientific method doesn't exist , experimental methodology remains an important concept for secondary science education. It is,...

During my teacher training we had to write a masters' level essay on the implementation of the How Science Works component of the English...

When beginning secondary education in science the physicist may discuss energy, or forces, possibly even motion, the chemist may discuss...

During my training year as a teacher I taught one lesson that went really well with a bottom set science class. It generated a lot of...

Mendelian genetics is ubiquitous in secondary school biology curricula and the Punnet square is iconic to genetics. Think about the...

Should mitosis be taught alongside meiosis or separately? Should organelles be taught together or separately across the curriculum? How...

Explanation in biology is split between two big questions. These questions should inform how we teach, and the answers we expect from...