How one teaches often feels like a very personal thing. I believe this is primarily due to a lack of structured teacher training across the world. Teachers normally get a year or two of training at the very beginning of their career, mostly in basic classroom management, organisation, and survival. They are then thrown into…

Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells

16.08.2024

Look back to move forward – EDUWELLS

True learning is a slow contemplatory process and yet schools are 'busy' places with little time for teachers or students to contemplate. We are too busy being industrial and efficient, meeting the needs of the economy.

Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells

29.09.2024

Will Education ever reach its Tipping point? – EDUWELLS

For more than 500 years, western culture has fallen into many major problems due to its sense of exceptionalism and thus routine lack of reflection. Western human habits continue to prove contradictory and paradoxical. A lack of reflective habits makes changes to any human system routinely difficult. The environmentalist, George Monbiot talks of tipping points…

Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells

02.10.2024

How I engaged learners without gimmicks – EDUWELLS

This year, I've run an experiment with mastery learning rather than running a programme of unit/topic learning. It has been life changing for both myself and my students. This year, I was asked to teach middle school art for the first time. 25 years ago, I was a Fine Art graduate but have never taught…

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Help teachers to talk about teaching & learning – EDUWELLS

Look back to move forward – EDUWELLS

Will Education ever reach its Tipping point? – EDUWELLS

How I engaged learners without gimmicks – EDUWELLS

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