Blog of the Week
Ian Frost – When things go wrong
Bit of an existential one this week. I think this will resonate with school leaders at all levels and perhaps give us (me) a bit of much needed perspective!
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Jody Chan – Why presentation of students’ work is important and how to improve it.
In what is likely to a series of blogs in a similar format, Jody Chan considers the why and the how students’ work presentation as well as some high frequency errors.
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Deb Friis – Looking at a new class through the learning behaviours lens
Durrington ELE Deb Friis explains how learning behaviours have helped her think through her approach with a new class.
Other Useful Links
- Bradford Research School has this great blog on PD and IC – Teetering Off Balance: Avoiding Wobbly PD
- Alex Quigley helps us frame how we take pupils from learned helplessness to learned industriousness – Improving Independent Learning
- A cog science thread from Peps McCrea this week around building connections to aid learning.
- This from Tom Sherrington on how we give feedback to teachers – Co-constructing feedback with teachers: dialogue, responsiveness and securing positive change.
- And.. a bit of a reply from Paul Cline – Is email feedback a waste of time?
- From Inner Drive comes this on AI – Is generative AI helping or harming students?
- Thahmina Begum is helping us avoid those classic last-few-lesson pitfalls – Avoid the perils of pre exam lessons
- Apparently it’s his 70th blog, and it’s certainly a good one from Pete Foster – Behaviour Basics – Problems and Solutions
- Super interesting thread from Sam Sims highlighting some new research on the need to contextualise teaching PD back in the classroom.
- From John Tomsett, is this sneak preview of one of the interviews from the latest book in the Huh series – This much I know about…developing Alternative Provision in mainstream schools
- Rachael Wilson has this on how metacognitive modelling can support in maths – Read the question carefully- What does this mean?
- A new booklet from Evidence Based Education – Designing great assessment
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