Blog of the Week
Ben Newmark – Principles for inclusive classrooms
We were lucky enough to have John Tomsett visit last week to talk about SEND and he referenced Ben an awful lot. Here is a bit of an opus on inclusive classrooms that I think we will be referencing for a long time to come.
Class Teaching
Fahim Rahman – Vocab instruction in science
Fahim explores some of the challenges he has found with vocab instruction in science and how he and the department have been overcoming them.
Research School Blog
James Crane – Sorry sir, what was the question again?
James looks again at attention and how mini-whiteboards can be a useful tool in securing it.
Other Useful Links
- From Carl Hendrick comes this great thread on the importance of forgetting.
- Another helping of Alex Quigley with – Academic Language and the Phrases that Matter
- Reasons to be cheerful from Claire Stoneman – School life by a thousand joys
- Claire Harley on her routine for choral repetition - Say it to own it
- Our weekly dose of Peps McCrea comes through this thread on feedback.
- More on coaching from Paul Cline – Feedback should improve the teacher, not the lesson
- Brad Busch is drilling into the nuances of retrieval practice with this post – Specific retrieval practice questions: what you need to know.
- Great set of resources here from Lincolnshire Research School on metacognition and self-regulation
- More gold-dust from Marc Rowland, this time in the form of a set of resources tackling what we might mean by educational disadvantage.
- A podcast from Doug Lemov and Greg Ashman looking at cognitive load theory.
- A really rich read from Adam Smith on how we build storytelling and narratives into our teaching – Building Jesus’s World: Worldbuilding and Worldviews in RE
- The EEF’s Harry Madgwick summarises the recent changes made to frameworks for trainee and early career teachers – The updated Core Content and Early Career Framework: what’s changed?
Durrington Professional Development Twilights 2023 – 24
This year we are offering twilight training programmes on the following areas of evidence-informed practice. They will take the format of three 90 minute online sessions spread over 6 – 8 weeks. You can book via this form.
The two remaining bookable sessions are:
- Feedback to Improve Learning
- Effective Professional Development
Class Teaching 