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This book builds on David Didau's groundbreaking book Making Meaning in English by showing how the principles of the original book can be applied in schools and classrooms. It offers a fully resourced English curriculum packed with teaching suggestions and examples of high-quality practice.

This book builds on David Didau's groundbreaking book Making Meaning in English by showing how the principles of the original book can be applied in schools and classrooms. It offers a fully resourced English curriculum packed with teaching suggestions and examples of high-quality practice.

Intelligent Accountability discusses two opposed models of school improvement: the deficit model (which assumes problems are someone's fault) and the surplus model (which assumes problems are unintended systemic flaws).

Making Meaning in English examines the broader purpose and reasons for teaching English and explores what knowledge looks like in a subject concerned with judgement, interpretation and value.

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In Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap, David Didau reignites the nature vs. nurture debate around intelligence and offers research-informed guidance on how teachers can help their students acquire a robust store of knowledge and skills that is both powerful and useful.Foreword by Paul A. Kirschner.Given the choice, who wouldn't want to be cleverer? What teacher wouldn't want this for their students, and what parent...

Another from Jackie Beere's 'Perfect' stable, this simple but effective little book is designed to help bring the best out of all English departments during that all-important Ofsted visit. It is written by David Didau, a highly effective and innovative head of English at a school where Independent Thinking is a trustee.

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If you feel a bit cross at the presumption of some oik daring to suggest everything you know about education might be wrong, please take it with a pinch of salt. It's just a title. Of course, you probably think a great many things that aren't wrong.

Much of what we do in classrooms is intuitive, steered by what 'feels right', but all too often intuition proves a poor, sometimes treacherous guide. Although what we know about the workings of the human brain is still pitifully little, the science of psychology can and has revealed certain surprising findings that teachers would do well to heed. Over the past few decades, psychological research has made real strides into understanding how...

Literacy? That's someone else's job, isn't it?