The Classroom Experiment

Part one: In this twopart series, theory and practice meet head on as education expert Professor Dylan Wiliam sets up an experimental school classroom. For one term, he takes over a Year 8 class at a secondary comprehensive to test simple ideas that he believes could improve the quality of our children s education. Some of the higher ability students are not responding well to the new rule of No Hands Up in class, and Wiliam is worried they are at risk of bein br, br,