To understand p-values, you must discern a critical aspect: how confident you can interpret data. You must see how the relationship...

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

How to teach mammalian thermoregulation with a system dynamics model.

How to help students understand osmosis by building a stock and flow diagram with them.

The variation theory of learning is a theory about how we learn and, therefore, how to teach. It isn't a theory of how memories are...

After reading about stock and flow diagrams in my book, many people have asked for more details about how I actually go about building...

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...

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...

For years I've toiled with quiz questions in my biology courses (AKA core questions). I've used quiz questions as starter quizzes, to...

Reading great books is the only one short cut to improving subject knowledge. Here, I compile a selection that have helped me develop as...

I co-construct meaning with students through diagrams and dialogue, so I don't have any slide decks to share. Learn how to teach this way...

The fundamental insight to the digestive system is how it functions to meet the needs of the whole organism. To address this, we must...

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,...

What is the cause of osmosis? Typically, with my students of 14-16 years old (GCSE courses), I don't delve into the mechanism. It's the...

What are the most important factors for teacher sustainability? I'm sure there are many. Student behaviour, planning time, teaching...

Short answer questions are currently ubiquitous in UK secondary biology education. They work well for providing objectivity. This gives...

The Powerpoint years Creating presentations were great for organising my thinking while I planned, I could include: Exactly the right...

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...

Glucose homeostasis—What will happen? On the surface we have the learning of the component parts of the human body that function as a...

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...

This is a summary of my paper here in the Journal of Biological Education , whose ideas have been vastly advanced and presented in my...