What Scientific American had to say about homework in 1860

As you're thinking about classroom assessments next year, remember that we grade against criteria for standards, outcomes, learning goals, i.e., evidence of learning, NOT the vehicle used to deliver that evidence. So, unless we're teaching the assessment format itself, whether or

PYP's a framework...just sayin'.😉

IB world schools are thinking about how to authentically make the IB Learner Profile and Approaches to Learning a part of day-to-day learning. The Learner Profile and ATLs are two fundamental components of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum framework designed to

Mathematics is a vehicle for exploring, consolidating, and transferring understanding to authentic contexts. Mathematics learning can look like this: Oberoi International School JVLR. #pyp #IB #inquiry

"There are educational experts out there who will tell you that remembering is super important for our education system (e.g. Daniel Willingham)... is it as important as it was when we didn't have an amazing machine in our pocket that has everyone else's memory in it?" dave cormier

Schools are using research to try to improve children’s learning – but it’s not working theconversation.com/schools-are-us… via The Conversation

A recent review of research confirms multiple benefits of "looping" - that is, having a teacher stay with a class of students for more than one year: edworkingpapers.com/ai22-590

Cannot boost this slide more I FEEL SO SEEN Rachel Lambert (look for me on sky now) 🫣 #ncsm

“It baffles me why our Australian teachers are not the most protected, highly paid workers in the country, because they have the lives of our most cherished people in their hands - our kids. The pressure we place on them is staggering.” Via Trent Dalton

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A wonderful example of how the teaching profession can organise - instagram.com/reel/DC6C7v7ok… Thanks Tim Minchin!

Why respect is a massive issue at work. Research shows that for employees, “feeling respected” is 17.9 times more powerful a predictor of an organisation’s overall culture score than the average factor (& almost twice as strong as the 2nd most important factor, supportive

16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓

A silver lining of being a highly sensitive kid is heightened social and emotional intelligence. New study of elementary schoolers: The more they feel things deeply, the better they are at recognizing emotions and handling conflicts. Sensitivity is not a flaw—it's a feature.

Hey parents, This might be hard to hear. But your biggest regret won’t be what you did for your kids… It’ll be what you didn’t let them do for themselves. 🧵

Enjoyed Guy Claxton's lecture yesterday. There’s no such thing as the Science of Learning; just many sciences. No single method, no universal best practice. Teaching is more than delivery; it’s an epistemic apprenticeship. You catch ways of thinking from those you’re with.

Thinking about a ‘Learning community as a living system’ (John Cho) is a reminder that education needs to keep connections and relationships at the forefront of developing and improving programmes to the needs of those within the learning community.

Rather than just using artificial intelligence to teach declarative knowledge, combining chatbots with guidance on critical thinking allows parallel development of procedural knowledge by mitigating cognitive load: bit.ly/44DxvAf ($)

“There are 3 stories of learning: the old, the current, and the new we want to tell.” Schools need a shift from compliance to curiosity: valuing relationships, play, Indigenous knowledge, & diversity. Inquisitive minds thrive on risk, not the status quo. routledge.com/Cultivating-Cu….