Big ideas need time to surface
As a teacher it is hard not to step in to support children when they are grappling with a concept, but Kriti Mathur managed to hold herself back!
As a teacher it is hard not to step in to support children when they are grappling with a concept, but Kriti Mathur managed to hold herself back!
Stephen Walshe suggests we are not just absorbers of knowledge but active creators of our own knowledge: in learning how to think we can get more not just out of learning but, more importantly, out of life.
Sportsman and journalist Matthew Syed makes an important contribution to the Nature v Nurture debate: Andy Homden considers his analysis has implications for teaching.
Andy Homden suggests that unless students acquire the habit of academic independence, they will neither fulfill their potential nor be ready for the expectations of higher education and the world of employment. But – they have to be shown how.