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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 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
Jan 2024 3
Feb 2024 0
Mar 2024 0
Apr 2024 0
May 2024 0
Jun 2024 2
Jul 2024 1

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