Blog of the Week
Explicit Instruction: A Generic Lesson Plan (I-WE-YOU) – Tom Needham
For those teachers regularly using the I, We, You approach to modelling Tom’s blog gives a great worked example for how it might work in practice.
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In this blog Deb Friis explains how she uses the principles of evidence-informed teaching to shape her facilitation when delivering professional development to teachers.
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Read and Repeat: How Every Teacher Can (And Should) Be A Teacher of Reading – Fran Haynes
Fran Haynes explains how busy teachers can neatly fit one crucial aspect of reading, fluency, into their lessons in effective but not overwhelming ways.
Other Useful Links
- In line with our whole-school focus at present Evidence Based Education give some pointers on the why and how of questioning in this post – The Art of Questioning.
- A brilliant questioning infographic from Inner Drive based on the work of Doug Lemov who has written an accompanying blog.
- Another Lemov blog, this time including an annotated version of the forgetting curve.
- In this TES article Mike Hobbiss explains how we might navigate the nuanced world of evidence-informed practice – Why you can’t (completely) trust the research
- In this post Jesse Gaffey looks at how retrieval practice can be optimised – Models of Retrieval Practice
- Here Emily Chandler discusses how we might support students to apply learning from one context to another in this post – Helping students apply knowledge from other subjects
- A lovely quick read from Mark Roberts with some precise pointers on behaviour management – 6 small language tweaks to help manage behaviour
- In this post Katherine Childs looks at she makes her whole-class feedback stick – Whole-Class Feedback: Making the most of it
- For those in school leadership or thinking about it, this webinar from Evidence Based Education will be extremely useful – EBE webinar
Deep Dive Days 2022-23:
This year the Durrington Research School is offering a range of one-day workshops on EEF guidance reports and evidence reviews. You can book your place here.
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