Christian Moore Anderson
Should management mandate precise teaching activities? Probably not.
Often, people seem to discuss schools as centres for optimising students' learning and teachers' teaching. However, I want to share a...
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Christian Moore Anderson
May 144 min read
What's the purpose of rehearsal (during lessons)?
Recently the idea of "rehearsal" has appeared in UK-based educational blogs. But there appears to be confusion. What's it for? Here are...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Feb 125 min read
Evidence-based educational movements are actually games
Around 2012ish, a new movement rode into the UK (school) educational scene. It came with the banner of "evidence-based", to counter the...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Jan 142 min read
Helping students develop study skills: a simple model.
Advising students how to study is complex. Learning is messy, with ups and downs. Sudden insights may punctuate periods of seemingly...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Sep 21, 20235 min read
What the variation theory (of learning) is and isn't. A brief introduction.
Many people who have brief encounters with variation theory come away with the idea that it is about employing examples and non-examples...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Aug 25, 20236 min read
My thoughts on the new IB Biology syllabus—plus some free resources
Summer is ending and the new syllabus is rolling out. I just spent a few months developing my resources for the entire course and I want...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Aug 7, 20238 min read
The ups & downs of my experience with retrieval practice
For years I've toiled with quiz questions in my biology courses (AKA core questions). I've used quiz questions as starter quizzes, to...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Sep 20, 20223 min read
A simple model for teacher sustainability and growth
What are the most important factors for teacher sustainability? I'm sure there are many. Student behaviour, planning time, teaching...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Jun 30, 20226 min read
Upgrading formative assessment: The questions that actually lead to responsive teaching
Short answer questions are currently ubiquitous in UK secondary biology education. They work well for providing objectivity. This gives...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Oct 27, 20216 min read
Putting nature back into secondary biology education: a framework for integration
This is a summary of my paper here in the Journal of Biological Education , whose ideas have been vastly advanced and presented in my...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Aug 27, 20214 min read
Why Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve isn't useful for teaching
Ebbinghau's forgetting curve has seen a resurgence in popularity. While I agree that knowledge is essential for domain specific...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Jul 31, 20205 min read
The scales of curriculum planning: why sequence isn't king.
In the UK, the knowledge curriculum seems to be enjoying high levels of popularity. The pendulum has swung (and rightly so) away from...
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Christian Moore Anderson
Jan 23, 20205 min read
The knowledge curriculum in biology: How retrieval practice and knowledge organisers may distort it
During the popularity of the skills curriculum, there appeared to be some agreement across school subject areas about what skills were...
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