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A new study has found that young people overestimate their own learning, threatening their progress, says Alex Quigley. So what can teachers do to help them have more realistic perceptions?

There are two types of adjustments teachers should consider when they are planning for adaptive teaching, says Alex Quigley

Narrative stories can help pupils to commit information to memory, says Alex Quigley, but teachers need to carefully plan the ‘how’, ‘what’ and ‘when’ of using them

Back-to-school CPD should have a lasting legacy, says Alex Quigley, who rounds up pointers for making sure that learning is embedded in practice

It isn’t always easy to translate cognitive science principles to the classroom, says Alex Quigley, but a framework drawn from research could provide a helpful model

The ‘do now’ retrieval quiz has become a fixture of many classrooms, but Alex Quigley questions whether these quizzes are always as helpful as we’d like them to be