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Creating a culture to increase question participation in classrooms What might be some of that barriers ❓❓ Crown House Publishing Jamie Clark Powerful Questioning: Strategies for improving learning and retention in the classroom amzn.eu/d/gJkFAd3

The field of cognitive science has a lot to offer teachers and students. For starters... Retrieval Practice: pdf.retrievalpractice.org/RetrievalPract… Spaced Repetition: pdf.retrievalpractice.org/SpacingGuide.p… Flexible Knowledge: pdf.retrievalpractice.org/TransferGuide.…

✍️NEW THIS WEEK Influencing culture To whom we pay attention (and to whom we don't) is one of the primary mechanisms for changing culture mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/inf…

*** NEW POST *** 'Feedback: Improve the Learner, Not the Work' "... teachers are mired in attempting to help pupils improve their current work, but it doesn’t translate to their future tasks, so it does not improve the learner...” Feat. Dylan Wiliam theconfidentteacher.com/2024/01/feedba…

📚 Books to Read as a New Headteacher 🏫 Embarking on the role of a headteacher is thrilling and challenging. To navigate school leadership, here are highly recommended books to inspire and guide you. 👇

THREAD: Some questions that a plateauing school may want to ask to stimulate strategic planning. Just designed as prompts.

Today’s KS2 maths reasoning paper is a failure at a national level, one which will serve only to put pupils off maths. There is nothing wrong with tough questions in maths. Mathematicians love the challenge of overcoming difficult problems. But that’s not the same thing at all

What is the most important of Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction? 🤔 We believe that his 6th, checking for understanding, underpins the other nine – head to the blog to find out how 👉 bit.ly/3X3yZjt

☝️Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This poster summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning. 👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here:

Introducing Learning WalkThrus: How We Learn - a short guide for students. A taste of the content coming soon to all our members via the website and covered in our Learning Walkthrus book out now: amazon.co.uk/Learning-WalkT…

🏆 GOLD collection of FREE posters for school walls and PD spaces. Drive evidence-informed practice and help colleagues to reflect on their teaching, build pedagogical knowledge, and spark professional conversations. 🤝 Please REPOST and share with your followers. Grab HQ copies

Do your pupils struggle with distraction? Use our sketchnote on how to create cognitive control to support your pupils to improve. More resources on impact.wales just click ImpactPlus

Assessment of pupils' progress should be underpinned by these 4 principles. The most important of the four is the VALUE of your assessment. How is it having a positive impact on future learning? Contact us for professional learning support & resources [email protected]

A writing resource to help pupils improve their sentence variety in both fiction and non fiction writing. I have included a range of different sentences with examples. Download 👉 tinyurl.com/ysbz7x2f

5 FREE websites every teacher should use this school year 👍

Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. The Reading Map - A Primer youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?si… via YouTube

Foster collaboration, encourage communication, and make use of Retrieval Practice With Think, Pair, Share 🧠👭🗣️ Here's a blog (and a graphic based on Jamie Clark's) on it 👇 bit.ly/3ZWj5bS

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✅Professional Development ✅Meticulous Teaching for Learning ✅Breaking Down the Fundamentals ✅40 HQ PDFs for the hopefully reasonable price of £1.99 midd.me/9hFv