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• Gapless instruction vs ‘teaching to the top’ – David Didau

  Over the years I’ve recommended that teachers ‘teach to the top’ on too many occasions to count. For the most part, I’ve caveated this by included the need to ‘scaffold down,’ but, honestly, I’ve c…

• The best laid schemes of work & learning – David Didau

  The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley. Robert Burns Ah, the scheme of work. We’ve all got ’em. but what are they for? To spell out the structure of each lesson in a…

• Why 'mastery learning' may prove to be a bad idea – David Didau

  “It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.” Disraeli What could be wrong with wanting students to master difficult content? Nothing. For …

• Scripts: whose lesson is it anyway? – David Didau

  When I was 16, Whose Line Is It Anyway? first aired on UK television. The show, hosted by Clive Anderson, asked four comedians to ad lib responses to various prompts and scenarios, much of it shout…

• Using mini whiteboards in English – David Didau

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• What’s the big deal with Big Questions? – David Didau

  You might know them as Fertile Questions, Enquiry Questions, or plain old, Big Questions, but the idea that the curriculum ought to be organised around broad, disciplinary, substantive enquires is …