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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 six posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 7
2023 3
2024 6

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

Most recent posts

How should we view the performance of the most disadvantaged students?
In spite of our best efforts, the academic performance of our most and least advantaged students stubbornly refuses to close. In fact, as a recent report from the Education Policy Institute shows, the gap seems …
On , by David Didau, 66 words
The purpose of a system is what it does
Following a recommendation from Sam Freedman, I've recently devoured Dan Davies's The Unaccountability Machine. It's an attempt to analyse 'what's gone wrong' in what we might call The West over the past decade or so …
On , by David Didau, 64 words
Why bother with ‘turn & talk’?
Beyond the notion that it's nice for students to chat, or 'do oracy,' is there any real merit in getting them to talk to each other during lessons? Recently on Twitter, Barry Smith got in …
On , by David Didau, 61 words