If you think traffic in Belfast is bad, then consider supporting the Belfast "Circle Line". The Circle Line would have roughly 300k people living within 1 mile of the track, giving it the largest catchment area of any NI Railways branch. The Circle Line would connect Belfast

'Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations' - Special Issue with new research on Split-attention effect, redundancy effect, interleaving across subjects, augmented and mixed reality, self-monitoring and emotion regulation, cognitive recovery and overload, individual

Rory McIlroy gave everything. #themasters

Why is working memory so crucial to learning? Check out this preview from our How Teaching/Learning Happens online course ➡️ htalh.com Paul A. Kirschner Academica University of Applied Sciences Dr Haili Hughes FRSA Dr. Jim Heal Meg Lee Jeanette Breen

NEW: Why last minute revision is likely to pay off (a technical explanation) Link to follow...

Using chi-sqaured to investigate Quality Street sweets with our A2 biology students. #cceabiology #biology #stats

NEW BLOG: We Taught It. They Forgot It. We Moved On. emaths.co.uk/blog/general-e…

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We are looking for a new Head of Music. Great opportunity for someone to run their own department!

Had the pleasure of doing a webinar on retrieval practice with Nathan Estel and the always brilliant Wendy Amato this AM. We watched & discussed three great videos. You can watch the recording here: home.edweb.net/webinar/brain2…

NEW Post on 'The Curriculum Christmas Tree' here. Some initial thoughts on the potential for the NI Review of Curriculum. timmanson.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/the…

Introducing #Gemini for Education, a version of the @Geminiapp built for you 🫵, the educator! Gemini in Classroom is now free. Plus, find new video overviews in NotebookLM and quizzes in Gemini. Take a look! 🤠 goo.gle/4nqlg0D #ISTELive2025/#ASCDAnnual25

Responsive Teaching Part 1: Learning is Recursive Not Linear. Link in reply ⬇️ 🚨 Part 2 coming next week..

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Where are the Curriculum specialists in Northern Ireland? timmanson.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/whe…

I've been doing some thinking about the most effective practices in learning this week and keep coming back to this old favourite by John Dunlosky timmanson.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/how…

Cullybackey College Students Achieve Great Success - Cullybackey College share.google/9z0iJc9MHpIfmW…

I've been pondering the importance of the Knowledge-Rich Curriculum for NI schools over the summer . . . here's what I have found so far. . . . NEW BLOG POST timmanson.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/wha…

Second full day back today and was great to have Paul Gray with us again to look at how we can Harness Attention the classroom. LearnSparkLtd

This is what happens when you cut pupil support programmes that provided vital additional teaching to young people who missed out key parts of their education due to lockdown and their families cannot afford additional tuition outside of school. #NISchools