Paul Cline
@paulclinepsy.bsky.social
Psychology teacher, Director of Teaching & Learning, Instructional Coach. MCCT. Blogger (apsychologyteacherwrites.wordpress.com), , runner.
"How to teach Psychology - an evidence informed approach" - coming soon!
"How to teach Psychology - an evidence informed approach" - coming soon!
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Paul Cline
@paulclinepsy.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Well, this is exciting! @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of our book - How to Teach Psychology: An evidence-informed approach
Available for pre-order now!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953/
Available for pre-order now!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953/
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Deep dives weren't perfect, but when done well they helped triangulate evidence and gave subject leaders real CPD. Without them, inspections risk becoming more fragmented and leaders may feel more pressure to provide the evidence.
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Deep dives weren't perfect, but when done well they helped triangulate evidence and gave subject leaders real CPD. Without them, inspections risk becoming more fragmented and leaders may feel more pressure to provide the evidence.
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Why Scrapping Deep Dives Could Make Inspections Harder
There is a strange irony in the way inspection reform plays out in England.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Deep dives weren't perfect, but when done well they helped triangulate evidence and gave subject leaders real CPD. Without them, inspections risk becoming more fragmented and leaders may feel more pressure to provide the evidence.
open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
Deep dives weren't perfect, but when done well they helped triangulate evidence and gave subject leaders real CPD. Without them, inspections risk becoming more fragmented and leaders may feel more pressure to provide the evidence.
open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
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Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
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‘Feedback: A message in a bottle’
“Feedback is not a clear, simple exchange. It is a difficult, contingent, emotional, belief-laden effort. Teachers pose messages that can be easily lost, or can hit home very directly.”
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‘Feedback: A message in a bottle’
“Feedback is not a clear, simple exchange. It is a difficult, contingent, emotional, belief-laden effort. Teachers pose messages that can be easily lost, or can hit home very directly.”
alexquigley.co.uk/feedback-a-m...
Feedback: A message in a bottle
Approaches to feedback, such as written marking or 'whole class feedback', are popular classroom strategies that are undertaken daily with students of all ages and stages. But do they truly land with ...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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‘Feedback: A message in a bottle’
“Feedback is not a clear, simple exchange. It is a difficult, contingent, emotional, belief-laden effort. Teachers pose messages that can be easily lost, or can hit home very directly.”
alexquigley.co.uk/feedback-a-m...
‘Feedback: A message in a bottle’
“Feedback is not a clear, simple exchange. It is a difficult, contingent, emotional, belief-laden effort. Teachers pose messages that can be easily lost, or can hit home very directly.”
alexquigley.co.uk/feedback-a-m...
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Delighted to make a summary of this EXCELLENT book - thought-provoking and extremely useful, and one of the BEST chapters about 'How Do We Learn' that I have read. Thanks @drcastelino.bsky.social
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Delighted to make a summary of this EXCELLENT book - thought-provoking and extremely useful, and one of the BEST chapters about 'How Do We Learn' that I have read. Thanks @drcastelino.bsky.social
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
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Going to do some threads on psychological barriers to learning. First up... perfectionism.
Let me know if you have any questions about perfectionism. And please share for a wider reach!
Let me know if you have any questions about perfectionism. And please share for a wider reach!
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Going to do some threads on psychological barriers to learning. First up... perfectionism.
Let me know if you have any questions about perfectionism. And please share for a wider reach!
Let me know if you have any questions about perfectionism. And please share for a wider reach!
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Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.
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Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.
Make Time for Learning
When Checking Becomes the Lesson
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.
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Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.
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Even more than funding or relevant opportunities, "Time" was what the most teachers and leaders selected as a key requirement to engage with CPD in our recent survey.
Read more about the enablers and barriers to CPD which education professionals reported in 2025
Read more about the enablers and barriers to CPD which education professionals reported in 2025
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Even more than funding or relevant opportunities, "Time" was what the most teachers and leaders selected as a key requirement to engage with CPD in our recent survey.
Read more about the enablers and barriers to CPD which education professionals reported in 2025
Read more about the enablers and barriers to CPD which education professionals reported in 2025
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We learn more from failure than success, right?
Well, when it comes to education, it's dangerous to assume that students automatically learn from their mistakes. We may romanticise it but the evidence tells us that failure is unpleasant, and can leave lasting feelings of shame.>
Well, when it comes to education, it's dangerous to assume that students automatically learn from their mistakes. We may romanticise it but the evidence tells us that failure is unpleasant, and can leave lasting feelings of shame.>
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We learn more from failure than success, right?
Well, when it comes to education, it's dangerous to assume that students automatically learn from their mistakes. We may romanticise it but the evidence tells us that failure is unpleasant, and can leave lasting feelings of shame.>
Well, when it comes to education, it's dangerous to assume that students automatically learn from their mistakes. We may romanticise it but the evidence tells us that failure is unpleasant, and can leave lasting feelings of shame.>
Great thread on the ‘dynamic’ nature of memory & retrieval
It really doesn’t. Plato had a great answer to this problem more than two millennia ago. In the Theaetetus, he describes memory not as a storehouse or filing cabinet, but as a birdcage. Imagine, he says, that each of us has a cage in our minds filled with birds. 1/
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Great thread on the ‘dynamic’ nature of memory & retrieval
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Lots of people seem to have substacks these days.
If you wanted to create some articles about teaching and supporting geography teachers, would you do a substack or a blog? What's the difference? Why?
If you wanted to create some articles about teaching and supporting geography teachers, would you do a substack or a blog? What's the difference? Why?
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Lots of people seem to have substacks these days.
If you wanted to create some articles about teaching and supporting geography teachers, would you do a substack or a blog? What's the difference? Why?
If you wanted to create some articles about teaching and supporting geography teachers, would you do a substack or a blog? What's the difference? Why?
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Frankly, it’s amazing that schools work at all.
Every day, hundreds of pupils stream through the gates and a vast, invisible system whirs into motion: teaching, safeguarding, meals, attendance, support, behaviour, communication, enrichment and care.
A short thread about why schools are miracles:
Every day, hundreds of pupils stream through the gates and a vast, invisible system whirs into motion: teaching, safeguarding, meals, attendance, support, behaviour, communication, enrichment and care.
A short thread about why schools are miracles:
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Frankly, it’s amazing that schools work at all.
Every day, hundreds of pupils stream through the gates and a vast, invisible system whirs into motion: teaching, safeguarding, meals, attendance, support, behaviour, communication, enrichment and care.
A short thread about why schools are miracles:
Every day, hundreds of pupils stream through the gates and a vast, invisible system whirs into motion: teaching, safeguarding, meals, attendance, support, behaviour, communication, enrichment and care.
A short thread about why schools are miracles:
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“For a difference to be a difference, it must make a difference.”.
Education loves new distinctions, but unless they change what we do or how students learn, they’re just semantics. Are schemas and mental models really different or just two terms for the same thing? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Education loves new distinctions, but unless they change what we do or how students learn, they’re just semantics. Are schemas and mental models really different or just two terms for the same thing? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Schemas vs Mental Models: Does the difference make a difference?
Why the distinction between “schemas” and “mental models” tell us more more about our language than our minds.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“For a difference to be a difference, it must make a difference.”.
Education loves new distinctions, but unless they change what we do or how students learn, they’re just semantics. Are schemas and mental models really different or just two terms for the same thing? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Education loves new distinctions, but unless they change what we do or how students learn, they’re just semantics. Are schemas and mental models really different or just two terms for the same thing? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
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..any advice or useful research on Inclusive Teaching and it's impact would be hugely appreciated @markgoodrich.bsky.social @paulclinepsy.bsky.social @carlhendrick.substack.com @mrjlauder.bsky.social @mrmountstevens.bsky.social @jillberry102.bsky.social @dtwuva.bsky.social @jillberry102.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
..any advice or useful research on Inclusive Teaching and it's impact would be hugely appreciated @markgoodrich.bsky.social @paulclinepsy.bsky.social @carlhendrick.substack.com @mrjlauder.bsky.social @mrmountstevens.bsky.social @jillberry102.bsky.social @dtwuva.bsky.social @jillberry102.bsky.social
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Almost every school I know has a list of Teaching and Learning or curriculum "non-negotiables." But is that a good term to use in schools?
Please share if you can 🙏🙏
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Almost every school I know has a list of Teaching and Learning or curriculum "non-negotiables." But is that a good term to use in schools?
Please share if you can 🙏🙏
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November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Almost every school I know has a list of Teaching and Learning or curriculum "non-negotiables." But is that a good term to use in schools?
Please share if you can 🙏🙏
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Almost every school I know has a list of Teaching and Learning or curriculum "non-negotiables." But is that a good term to use in schools?
Please share if you can 🙏🙏
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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A pictures worth a 1000 words, right? But when words and pictures pull in different directions, learning falls apart. My latest piece looks at where dual coding goes wrong and how to make visuals actually help students think. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
The Dual Coding Delusion
How dual coding theory became a victim of edu-mythology and why adding visuals won’t make your teaching more memorable.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A pictures worth a 1000 words, right? But when words and pictures pull in different directions, learning falls apart. My latest piece looks at where dual coding goes wrong and how to make visuals actually help students think. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
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In this podcast and recent blogs I’ve talked about how attention might be at the heart of issues that look on the surface to be about other things (e.g. working memory, comprehension, intelligence etc).
Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In this podcast and recent blogs I’ve talked about how attention might be at the heart of issues that look on the surface to be about other things (e.g. working memory, comprehension, intelligence etc).
Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Calling all psychology teachers out there!
Hi everyone!
Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info…
What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed?
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Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info…
What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed?
www.theatp.uk
Association for the Teaching of Psychology
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October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Calling all psychology teachers out there!
Great day at #rEdCam25
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great day at #rEdCam25
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
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Having a terrific day at #rEdCam25
Seen some super sessions from @claresealy.bsky.social, @thebandb.bsky.social, the a youth shadow CAR panel, and @clairebadger.bsky.social talking about @innerdrive.bsky.social’s fantastic new book.
Seen some super sessions from @claresealy.bsky.social, @thebandb.bsky.social, the a youth shadow CAR panel, and @clairebadger.bsky.social talking about @innerdrive.bsky.social’s fantastic new book.
October 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Having a terrific day at #rEdCam25
Seen some super sessions from @claresealy.bsky.social, @thebandb.bsky.social, the a youth shadow CAR panel, and @clairebadger.bsky.social talking about @innerdrive.bsky.social’s fantastic new book.
Seen some super sessions from @claresealy.bsky.social, @thebandb.bsky.social, the a youth shadow CAR panel, and @clairebadger.bsky.social talking about @innerdrive.bsky.social’s fantastic new book.
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We all want children to feel like they 'belong' at school, but do we all agree what that means?
Fascinating deep dive by @jonhutchinson.bsky.social at #rEdCamb25 #researchEd
Fascinating deep dive by @jonhutchinson.bsky.social at #rEdCamb25 #researchEd
October 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We all want children to feel like they 'belong' at school, but do we all agree what that means?
Fascinating deep dive by @jonhutchinson.bsky.social at #rEdCamb25 #researchEd
Fascinating deep dive by @jonhutchinson.bsky.social at #rEdCamb25 #researchEd
Today!!
Who's coming to #researchED Cambridge tomorrow?
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Today!!
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Who's coming to #researchED Cambridge tomorrow?
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Who's coming to #researchED Cambridge tomorrow?
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
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The most influential study on scaffolding timing just failed replication. My latest on why this matters and what the evidence actually shows. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The most influential study on scaffolding timing just failed replication. My latest on why this matters and what the evidence actually shows. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
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Paul is a must see. Plus Cambridge on a chilly Autumn day is the best Cambridge.
Who's coming to #researchED Cambridge tomorrow?
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Paul is a must see. Plus Cambridge on a chilly Autumn day is the best Cambridge.
Who's coming to #researchED Cambridge tomorrow?
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Who's coming to #researchED Cambridge tomorrow?
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback:
Looking forward to some great sessions and catching up with people. I'll be talking about the mental models and decision-making underpinning good feedback: