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Thread on a very cool new study. What happens if you put eye tracking software on students and teach them using different PowerPoint slides? Implications and links to student attention, cognitive load and PowerPoint design 🧵

5⃣ Reject oversimplification We try to make sense of situations by applying rubrics or frameworks. There is no universal framework and our mental models ought to be made up of multiple ways of thinking about the problems we face.

The schedule for researchED Dubai has landed and it is MIGHTY

#rEDDubai Robert Coe taking down nonsense vision and mission statements. It’s the classroom, stupid!

What an inspiring event at researchED - thanks to Ben Cooper FCCT | Wellington Academy - Al Khail and the team for organising. Safe to say talking teacher development with Robert Coe and Nick Hart was incredibly insightful #rEDDubai

Some images from our incredible student performance last week, Matilda! 📚 We just loved watching the children on stage performing their hearts out. Their energy and enthusiasm was inspiring. #studentperformance #matildathemusical #happyschooluae #happyhorizon #cognitaway

“It is useful to track complex concepts back to their most fundamental, overarching of concepts because the more we do that, the more likely it is that we find common ground on prior knowledge.” This feels very relevant - a great post Nick Hart

✍️NEW THIS WEEK Coherence, not consistency Although there are some useful ideas about teaching that apply to the teaching of 3 years olds and 18 year olds, or teaching English or music, the reality is that these are different. mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/coh…

#LemovinLichfield Doug Lemov 'Science of reading' beyond phonics

🗂️ From the archives Can a school improvement plan embrace complexity? mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2024/05/17/can…

I've seen people criticized for using the words "effectiveness" and "efficiency" in education. Whatever you think education should do, if you don't care about effectiveness, you don't care about students, and if you don't care about efficiency, you don't care about teachers.

As the new year begins, let the students know you are glad they're there! amazon.com/dp/0367622211

Thoroughly enjoyed speaking pedagogy and adult learning with colleagues at the Cognita Schools Leadership Conference on Friday. Looking forward to the year ahead with our incredible Horizon School Dubai team.

✍️NEW POST✍️ A culture of teacher development mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/a-c…

RoUgH'nReAdY summary of my presentation at ResearchEd National Conference #rED24 ↓

Hattie, on TEACHER CREDIBILITY (in Visible Learning: The Sequal)

When multiple teachers within a school all use the same routines, special things happen. A short thread on collective acceleration: ↓

A quick thread on 'retrieval resistance': (co-authored with ace memory psychologist William Wadsworth William Wadsworth) ↓

💻 Webinar: Does the Model for Great Teaching apply to Early Years? This is the question school leaders Nick Hart Martin Cole and Gabby Ridley at English Horizon School set out to answer and in this session, they will share their findings with you. We will speak to them about the