Effective Papers For learning

I loved this TeachMeet. Like a funny and inspiring version of Ronnie Corbett, it was short, funny and inspiring; the emphasis on failure-first was refreshing, lending a sense of honesty and openness to proceedings as we happily nodded along in recognition of the mistakes and disasters that were explored.  We kicked off with a quote from the standard bearer of failure leading to success, Andy Murray, who spoke in his post-Wimbledon press conference of how his coach Ivan Lendl had made such a difference. Murray expressed the view that ' He's made me learn more from my losses than maybe I did in the past' . This set the theme for the event - learning from our losses, squeezing all the value and learning we can from dwelling on what goes wrong in our classrooms, even though that can be hard to do. Then, after a quick plug for  Tim Harford's highly-recommended  Adapt: why Success always starts with Failure, the   book which inspired the event, we let the failing comm...