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David Didau – Blog

I have expressed the constraints and irritations of ordinary teachers, detailed the successes and failures of my classroom and synthesised my 15 years of teaching experienced through the lens of education research and cognitive psychology.

  • By David Didau
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly three posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Mar 2022 1
Apr 2022 0
May 2022 1
Jun 2022 0
Jul 2022 0
Aug 2022 0
Sep 2022 1
Oct 2022 4
Nov 2022 0
Dec 2022 0
Jan 2023 1
Feb 2023 1
Mar 2023 1
Apr 2023 0
May 2023 0
Jun 2023 0
Jul 2023 0
Aug 2023 0
Sep 2023 0
Oct 2023 0
Nov 2023 0
Dec 2023 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

In defence of accountability
This weekend saw Joe Kirby publish a thoughtful blog in which he calls for an end to Quality Assurance. I agree with Joe's analysis of the causes of poor accountability - or QA - but …
On , by David Didau, 59 words
OAT English curriculum project
Since January 2020 I've been working for Omiston Academies Trust as their Senior Lead for English. Over that time I and the amazing team of lead practitioners I lead have created what we think is …
On , by David Didau, 59 words
When retrieval practice goes wrong (and how to get it right)
Whenever a practice becomes mandated there seems to be a tendency for it to lethally mutate. When I first started writing about retrieval practice (or the testing effect as we used to call it) many …
On , by David Didau, 66 words