How to get the most out of this FREE resource for educators. — Hello! 😎 If you were wondering what happened to my Memory and Metacognition newsletter, don’t worry — it’s still going! You can access the latest issue below: Jonathan Firth's Memory & Metacognition Updates #14 - Interleaving Hello, and welcome to another issue of my memory and metacognition updates. And apologies for the delay to this issue …firth.substack.com

Are people really visual and auditory learners? — You don’t have to spend much time in education to hear someone call themselves a ‘visual learner’. And as someone who regularly interviews new candidates for teacher education courses, I often hear people talking earnestly about how teachers should cater for every different type of learners. But can leaners be…

The list of shortform articles, from A to Z — In the publication Education Shortform, I have released a series of linked short articles about education, based around an A-Z of concepts. For convenience, this is a list of all of the titles in alphabetical order. Enjoy! A is for Active Learning Active Learning In a nutshell…medium.com B is for Brain Brain & Education In a nutshell…medium.com C is for Creativity

In a nutshell — In my education alphabet, X is for…(e)xams (well, close enough — there aren’t that many Xs in the English language!) Despite the changes that have occurred throughout the education system and frequent calls to reduce formal assessment (e.g. …

In a nutshell… — Good teaching is not just about efficacy — it’s also vital to proceed in an ethical way. That means working in ways that doesn’t harm students or make them overly anxious, which respects their own aspirations and values rather than imposing a ‘right’ way to study on them. Values are…

In a nutshell… — Working memory is a system that supports the brief, temporary storage of information. Most of the information that goes into working memory is rapidly forgotten without having a lasting impact on your knowledge — a room number that you check just before going to class, for example. …

In a nutshell… — U is for understanding. The second row of Bloom’s taxonomy focuses on understanding (or ‘comprehension’), and there can be no doubt that this has been and continues to be a key concept throughout education. The ‘teaching for understanding’ movement has argued against rote memorisation of facts and in favour of…

In a nutshell… — T is for technology, which these days commonly appears in educational discourse as part of STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Given that science and mathematics were already a valued and mainstream part of the curriculum, it is perhaps the technology and engineering elements that have most benefitted from…