When you start delving into the research on how pupils learn, you would be forgiven for thinking that they do very little of it at all. Indeed, there is as much written about what doesn’t support learning as what does. What is immediately clear however, is just how counter-intuitive the process of learning can be. As we plan for the remaining two years of curriculum changes, perhaps it is time to think about the extent to which we take this research into account when designing schemes of learning, resources and classroom practices.
Continue Reading