Once again, matching teaching to learning styles has near-zero impact on student achievement. I've noticed a resurgence of the learning styles myth recently so this new study is timely. 🧵 ⬇️

Another significant piece of the puzzle, great work again ⁦DCU_Performance⁩ - No solutions, only trade-offs: An exploration of contextual factors influencing rugby union talent development environments tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

23 percent of American 17-year-old boys have been diagnosed with ADHD. Stop. Medicalizing. Boyhood.

Regional Rugby Networks for Teachers in charge of Rugby. Following the success of last year’s school networks, we would like to build on the collaboration, communication and planning across Rugby Playing Schools,England Rugby Schools and the RFU.👇 bit.ly/42hIg9K

Fascinating story, lots of TD gold in this 👇 bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

This new paper is a great example of desirable difficulties in practice: Interleaving spelling tasks led to better performance on later spelling tests, even though it was harder during practice. 🧵⬇️

Fascinating insight, really worth a watch bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

"True learning happens through awareness, not effort." Sorry, but this is nonsense. 5 year olds don't learn to read by being 'aware' of letter/sound correspondences. They have to work damn hard at it and this is the message we should be sending to kids: a lot of things in life

“Low prior knowledge learners learn better from high-assistance instruction…High prior knowledge learners learn better from low-assistance instruction… The expertise reversal effect is not symmetrical: providing novices with assistance has a stronger effect than withholding

A wonderfully important image for sports coaches to immerse themselves in… Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction… Great coaching requires a diverse range of coaching behaviours…below are the types of instructional approaches coaches can use to help players learn…

New Research: Cognitive costs in motor-cognitive performance assessments depend on movement complexity and cognitive task design frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #SportsActiveLiving

📒 Barak Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction offers 10 evidence-based strategies that all teachers should know based on key research from cognitive science and research on master teachers. This poster outlines the lot! 👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here:

Who is doing joined up thinking about how schools. universities, therapy culture fosters narrative of withdrawal from life for anxious and depressed young people? When I was teaching at uni, one third of students had mental health diagnosis - a large proportion anxiety/depression

An advantage of knowledge-rich curricula over skills-based ones that I haven't seen discussed much is with the former students can see they are making progress—they know things they formerly didn't. When students see they are making progress they are more likely to invest effort.

Evidence for the reversal of the relative age effect in European professional basketball: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Revamped PREM Next Gen competition kicks off this weekend premiershiprugby.com/content/revamp… #PremRugbyBlog

U18 Academy League starts this weekend: 🏉 NEW brand - #PREMNextGen 🏟️ National 11-team league 😮‍💨 NEW Derby Weekend Will Northampton Saints 😇 retain the title? Read more here - premiershiprugby.com/fixtures-resul… #PREMRugby #rugby #rugbyplayers

Another study showing serious gaps in teacher knowledge, with large proportions still endorsing myths that have been debunked for decades. The fact that 50% of teachers believe in nonsense like Brain Gym is so dispiriting and the SEN-related myths (dyslexia, deafness, ADHD) are

Vacancies: Development phase coaches - Newcastle Falcons newcastlefalcons.co.uk/vacancies-deve…

Interesting paper, good to see discussion focused on the complexity of RAE. researchgate.net/publication/39…