Hello
I'm Adin. I teach, think and write about how people learn.
I'm a teacher based in Perth, Western Australia, with a particular interest in psychology, learning, assessment and feedback.
This site is a place for me to explore educational research, reflect on classroom practice, develop ideas and share things that might be useful to other educators.
More about me →A question behind much of my work
What happens when we take what psychology tells us about learning seriously, without pretending that classrooms are laboratories?
Writing
Latest ideas
Explore by topic
What I'm thinking about
Learning & cognition
Memory, attention, cognition, metacognition and how knowledge changes the way we think.
Assessment & feedback
What assessment can tell us and what students can actually do with it.
Gifted education
Learning, teaching and educational experiences in gifted and academically selective settings.
Evidence & practice
What research can tell teachers, what it cannot, and what happens when evidence meets a classroom.
Current project
Metacognitive Assessment Reflection System
How can students use assessment to understand the relationship between their habits and behaviours and their outcomes?
I'm developing an approach to post-assessment reflection that moves beyond correcting answers and towards helping students understand how they prepared, identify what habits can be improved and turn feedback into specific behaviours.
Full project page coming soon.
About
A teacher first.
My interest in education sits at the intersection of classroom practice and psychology. I'm particularly interested in the places where seemingly simple questions about teaching turn out to be much more complicated.
I use this site to document some of that thinking — including ideas that are developed, ideas that are still changing, and occasionally ideas that turn out to be wrong.