Curriculum Narrowing: Are the Humanities in Crisis?
Curriculum narrowing is a problem in the UK and in other countries due to pressure to achieve in high-stakes testing of a limited number of subjects....
02 March, 2022
Teaching
The Benefits of the Humanities: Transferable Skills and Leadership
The humanities, arts and social sciences develop transferable skills and there is evidence that these subjects are linked to leadership....
25 February, 2022
How Dual Coding Helps Students to Understand Arguments
Argument mapping uses a combination of simple statements and symbols to display an argument as a diagram, making it easier to understand....
23 February, 2022
Dual Coding: How to Maximise Learning with Non-Verbal Information
Dual coding theory claims that we process verbal and non-verbal information separately, using two different cognitive systems....
18 February, 2022
Using Cognitive Load Effectively to Increase Learning
Argument mapping was developed as a way of reducing the cognitive load involved in learning arguments. In an argument map, the extraneous load is reduced by only including simple statements that are essential to the argument....
15 February, 2022
The “Need to Know” About Cognitive Load
Ofsted call cognitive load theory "an important contribution to learning science", but what is it? Cognitive load theory has been around for over three decades, but it wasn’t until the last few years that it really started to take off in education....
09 February, 2022