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To What Extent Does An Autonomy-Supportive Classroom Aid Student’s Development Of Intrinsic Motivation? - A Brief Summary of a Practice Based Inquiry
So glad to be writing this summary of a recent practice-based inquiry, it opened my eyes so much to the research into motivation and the...
Jonathan Wainman
Jul 23, 20253 min read


Feed Up, Feedback, Feed Forward – An Action Research Project
I was reading a blog on the Chartered College of Teaching and one piece of action research really stuck out. It was a case study of an...
Jonathan Wainman
Dec 16, 20243 min read


Increasing Student Motivation – The Teacher’s Role
Student behaviour, as we have gathered, is something that I am intensely interested in. One of the many aspects of behaviour that I...
Jonathan Wainman
Sep 1, 20247 min read


Storytelling in the Classroom – An effective pedagogical tool?
I first came across the narrative of ‘The Power of Stories’ when I read Daniel Willingham’s ‘Why Don’t Students Like School’ (2009). I...
Jonathan Wainman
Aug 10, 20246 min read


To What Extent Can The Barriers Of Implementing Interleaving Be Overcome?
J Wainman - Chartered College of Teaching 2024 - A short discussion Implementing interleaving in secondary education presents certain...
Jonathan Wainman
Apr 11, 20242 min read


How Useful Is Cognitive Science In The Classroom?
J Wainman - Chartered College of Teaching 2024 What is Cognitive Science? Cognitive science research outlines the mechanisms involved in...
Jonathan Wainman
Apr 10, 20248 min read


Are They REALLY Doing Retrieval Practice?!
To What Extent Does Retrieval Practice Intervention Reduce Metacognitive Biases Towards Conductance of Retrieval Practice During...
Jonathan Wainman
Apr 10, 20248 min read


Retrieval Practice: MCQ's or Open-Ended Questions?
J Wainman - 2022 Retrieval practice involves students re-addressing lesson content that they had learnt some time ago in order...
Jonathan Wainman
Apr 10, 20242 min read
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