A long(ish) thread on the teaching of reading comprehension in key stage 2. Just some thoughts and opinions: 1/n

To address underachieving groups, teach everyone better. teacherhead.com/2018/09/17/to-…

💡 harry madgwick, our Policy and Research Manager, explores recent updates to Department for Education's framework underpinning trainee and early career teachers’ entitlement to training and development. Read more: eef.li/fzmvBj

The government is introducing a mandatory Sendco NPQ from September 2024. John Roberts reports on what to expect – plus a list of named providers tes.com/magazine/news/…

Lots of schools have Reading Champions, Reading Ambassadors or something similar. This wonderful example of practice from Mirela Brough Mirela Brough on the Reading for Pleasure 🧶 site offers great guidance about how to really make the most of them. #ReadingForPleasure ourfp.org/eop/developing…

▶️Assessment ▶️Inspired by Dylan Wiliam 6⃣ Principles

Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher's personality and desire for autonomy; let's celebrate that. teacherhead.com/2024/01/07/evi…

▶️Scaffolded Reading ✅Six principles

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8 ways to be an awesome senior leader. How many do you already do? Professional learning for schools impact.wales

Dear primary schools, If you currently send assessment data in a spreadsheet to a company, and on the basis of this question-level analysis they recommend interventions or teaching strategies, please *stop doing this*. This is almost certainly a waste of time and money.

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 '10 Questions about oracy' "Is oracy the next big thing? Are we destined for interminable arguments about it in the coming months or is there a healthy debate to be had about oracy?" theconfidentteacher.com/2024/04/questi…

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 'Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure & Style' "It's important, if we're trying to help teachers move on from differentiation, to be clear how tasks can be adapted whilst retaining the same challenging goal." Feat. Clare Sealy theconfidentteacher.com/2024/04/adapti…

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🔄 NEW! Scaffolding peer feedback can help make it more supportive, motivating, and actionable. This handy resource is aimed at students and is designed to help them master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the peer critique process.

Brilliant session on the science of learning with Peps for school INSET yesterday 😃👏 Looking forward to you visiting us again!

Are rewards good or bad for learning? Well, it depends. To understand why, we need to dive into the 2 main sources of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. ↓

If you agree that teaching reading comprehension is primarily about building pupils' understanding of written language through meaningful experiences with a variety of texts chosen for this purpose, please consider retweeting. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ primarycolour.home.blog/2022/02/25/wha…

Adaptive Teaching: Scaffold, Scale, Structure and Style David Goodwin & Alex Quigley

NEW! One-pager from the awesome session by Rachel Ball & LambHeartTea (she/her) at researchED on 'The Scaffolding Effect'. The session was packed with valuable insights and practical strategies from EEF Mary Myatt Margaret Mulholland (mmulholland.bsky.social) InnerDrive RP for a free HQ copy.