Blog of the Week
Gary Aubin – SEND strategies: live by them, or death by them?
Really useful and practical advice from Gary to help teachers navigate the support they give SEND students.
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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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Chris Runeckles – Webinar: A School’s Guide to Implementation
Ok, not a blog, but hopefully a useful link nonetheless. This the recording of a one-hour webinar I delivered this week introducing the newly updated A School’s Guide to Implementation guidance report.
Other Useful Links
- Bradford Research School has this on how using evidence in education is never an exact science – Using Research Evidence: Communicating Uncertainty
- Alex Quigley has a wonderful new book out and this blog introduces it – 8 Reasons Why Learning Fails
- A thread on how we activate prior knowledge from Peps McCrea.
- From Inner Drive comes this on spaced practice – When should students review what they’ve learnt?
- Another from Pete Foster, this time on planning – Planning Principles – Problems and Solutions
- Daniel Kliger has this on the all hands up approach to cold calling – All Hands Up with eight-year-olds
- Harry Fletcher-Wood on why we need PD with a balanced design – What must professional development achieve? The four purposes of PD
- Lovely exemplification of planning implementation via Somerset Research School – Implementation in Action
- Matt Stone on how we can stand in the same room and see very different things – Building Teacher Vision: A Core Purpose for Coaching?
- Claire Stoneman on clearing the clutter – Getting to less by thinking more
- From Nick Hart comes some questions for leaders to reflect on – 6 questions for school leaders
- Adam Robbins with some thoughts on how we limit the amount students are asked to copy from boards – Cancelling copying: How to optimise the teaching of declarative knowledge
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