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🧠 Cognitive science approaches in the classroom This evidence review explores the best available research to help guide schools’ thinking around how cognitive science approaches can support teaching and learning. Download: ow.ly/hves50LhGy4

🚨 NEW RESOURCE 🚨 David Goodwin has designed a brilliant infographic based on my blog on 'Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style'. The PDF version is freely available on my resources page: alexquigley.co.uk/resources/

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

This week's podcast episode is the first in a short series which focuses on the impact of using data effectively to raise attainment. In this eight minute listen hear from class teachers as they share their story of using data to drive improvement: educationscotland.podbean.com/e/episode-1-us…

#AnnualAwardsCeremony2024 Congratulations to all our successful pupils who had their success recognised yesterday evening by their peers, parents/carers, family & school staff at our Annual Awards Ceremony AND many thanks to all those who made this possible. #ASPIRE

This took a while. The top 1000 most frequently used Spanish words in one Quizlet set. #mfltwitterati 🇪🇸 quizlet.com/gb/928716505/t…

What does excellent teaching look like?

❗️Out today: the annual Language Trends report from British Council finds many schools struggle with recruiting language teachers. Read the report and find out how we at National Consortium for Languages Education are supporting schools to tackle structural challenges: bit.ly/4cFnsMe

Following on from my previous poster, some examples of simple but highly effective retrieval practice tasks

🗣️ #UNCRC is now law in Scotland! This landmark day is an exciting step for us all to recognise and realise children’s rights in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Check out our new webpage: education.gov.scot/resource-theme… And browse this helpful guidance to support with the next steps: gov.scot/binaries/conte…

#KylianMbappé explains how he worked hard in Spanish at school as h and as determined to play for Real Madrid one day…#DreamBig #WorkHard #RealMadrid #Languagesmatter Learn a language 💪🏻🇪🇸

Researchers at MIT have questioned whether SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) actually work. They suggest we might get better outcomes if we make our goals FAST (frequently discussed, ambitious, specific and transparent) not SMART.

Settler grid - ask students to pick one and complete at the start of class - great method for retrieval.

So much primary school nostalgia watching this 🫶🏼

Supporting nuerodiversity in the class by Miss Aird Link below sites.google.com/view/miss-aird…

For new teachers starting tomorrow two pieces of advice, get your behaviour right from the start and try to work on questioning to help drive understanding.

💡 Research shows that parental engagement matters a lot to children’s success at school. Find out how to strengthen connections between home and school to support children’s learning with our guidance report. Download now: ow.ly/1o0P50Tgzx4

#EuropeanDayOfLanguages Today we are celebrating European Day of Languages with our S1 demonstrating their #RESPECT for other cultures through taking part in European-themed workshops this morning...

What’s on in our Faculty of Cultural Studies next week?

There are ppl with a limited understanding of instructed second language acquisition in secondary schools and of language processing in general who don't grasp the fact that chunking aloud activities such as 'Sentence Stealer', 'Mind reading', 'Lie detector', 'Find your match'