The digested read: Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Sense by David Marshall, Ross Borthwick and Isabel Rich

Episode notes

Welcome to Education Sense, a new podcast from the team behind The Rest is Education!

This week's episode is brought to you by David Marshall and Isabel Rich. Together with teacher, Steph Vega, we'll be discussing Daniel Willingham's seminal education text Why Don't Students Like School? We will summarise what the book is about and also tease out some of the practical tips about how we can all become better classroom teachers. It's an episode that covers theory about how the brain learns but also some usable strategies for all.

Resources:

The first edition of Why Don't Students Like School? came out in 2009 with a new updated edition published in 2021:

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educationteachinglearningmetacognitioneducational researchcognitive load