Blog of the Week
Harry Fletcher-Wood – The magic of models in teacher professional development
I’ve come to accept I’m hugely biased in my #BOTW choice; they tend to be based on what I’m thinking about. No different this week with Harry’s blog explaining the Ambition Institute paper.
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Shaun Allison – The Importance of Routines
The boss is back! Good to have Shaun back in the blog writing fold as he explains some of the core routines we are currently working on at Durrington.
Research School Blog
Fahim Rahman – Equations in Context
Research School Associate Fahim Rahman explains how he has altered his teaching of equations to increase the use of context
Other Useful Links
- Via the TES comes this piece from Tim Oates – Tim Oates: in defence of knowledge
- In this blog Daisy Christodoulou explains some recent writing results – Year 2 writing 2022–23 — what have we learned?
- This blog from Kate Jones explains why we should encourage student requests for support – Encourage students to ask for, and accept, help
- From the EEF’s maths content specialist Grace Coker comes this piece on oracy in maths – Meaningful Moments for Mathematical Talk
- Blake Harvard explains why we should remain cautious in this blog – The Dangers of Feelgoodism in Education
- Another hard hitting blog from Dan Nicholls on disadvantage – The disconnection of disadvantage | reconnecting the disconnected
- A great example of metacognition in a subject specific context from Emily Chandler – Reflecting on Learning: Embedding metacognition in the classroom
- Inner Drive considers one of the tightropes we walk when implementing retrieval practice – Retrieval practice: school consistency vs teacher autonomy.
- More subject specific retrieval practice blogging from Paul Cline – Embedding a culture of retrieval in Psychology
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