When can you trust the experts? by Daniel Willingham

I enjoy Willingham books. Recently he wrote about how people read, and he is most famous for his outstanding book on ‘why don’t children like schools?’  This was an earlier book exploring how educationalists should treat educational research or proposed initiatives. It looked back at mistakes made in the adoption of things like Brain Gym

Why Don’t Students Like School? By Daniel Willingham

This was a breakthrough book that was a first read for many teachers getting engaged in how cognitive science can enhance teaching. It is part myth-busting and part a very clear introduction to some of the basics of what we are discovering about how pupils learn, and what doesn’t work in classrooms. When I read

The Reading Mind by Daniel Willingham

Daniel Willingham is famed educationally for writing one of the great books on how learning happens and how we could teach much better. But he has also written some other great books including one on spotting good science over bad. This book was a journey into the mind and how it helps us to read.