Katherine Schultz

Can we trust the evidence of our own eyes?

2015-04-16T21:26:05+01:00August 8th, 2014|Featured|

Unwisely I got embroiled in an online discussion this morning on the merits of research versus the experience of seeing stuff work with our own eyes. The contention is that although research may have its uses, there is no need to waste time or money researching the "blindingly obvious". On the face of it, this would appear to be self evidently true. Why bother testing the efficacy of something we can 'see' working? Well, as I've pointed out before, we are all victims of powerful cognitive biases which prevent us from acknowledging that we might be wrong. Here's a reminder of some of [...]

Everything we've been told about teaching is wrong, and what to do about it!

2014-03-09T11:19:44+00:00March 9th, 2014|myths|

It was great to be back at the IOE for Pedagoo London 2014, and many thanks must go to @hgaldinoshea & @kevbartle for organising such a wonderful (and free!) event. As ever there's never enough time to talk to everyone I wanted to talk to, but I particularly enjoyed Jo Facer's workshop on cultural literacy and Harry Fletcher-Wood's attempt to stretch a military metaphor to provide a model for teacher improvement. As I was presenting last I found myself unable to concentrate during Rachel Steven's REALLY INTERESTING talk on Lesson Study and returned to the room in which I would be presenting to catch the end [...]

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