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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 year

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

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

Most recent posts

Messy markbooks: monitoring participation in (and across) lessons
Since taking the plunge with mini-whiteboards (see this post) over the past few years my ability to know whether students are paying attention, thinking and practising has dramatically increased. Because I'm usually teaching groups of …
On , by David Didau, 63 words
Attention, meaning & consolidation: matching technique to purpose
It's become increasingly clear to me that training teachers on how to use pedagogical techniques is of limited use. Over the past year or so I've lost count of the times I've watched a teacher …
On , by David Didau, 63 words
Earned autonomy and shared responsibility
Having just gotten around to reading Matthew Evans' blog, The Earned Autonomy Trap, I feel moved to break my blogging silence of the past few months. In my book, Intelligent Accountability, I present earned autonomy …
On , by David Didau, 60 words