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Responsive Teaching Part 1: Learning is Recursive Not Linear The first in a series of posts looking at how responsive teaching can be understood, implemented, and embedded within system-wide efforts to improve teaching and learning.

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The fourth and final speaker at the Great Teaching stand at the Festival of Education is Claire Gadsby

This highly interactive workshop will tackle the "knowing-doing" gap by providing busy teachers and leaders in all phases with a range of low prep but high impact "Great Teaching" strategies.

Applying the Science of Learning Using Tolerance Zones The engineering concept of Tolerance Zones offers a useful framework for understanding how to effectively implement retrieval practice

Tolerance zones: a framework for applying the science of learning carlhendrick.substack.com/p/applying-t...

A note on developing effective line management in schools In education, teaching and learning is our core business. This means that the time we hand over to this to take place effectively and efficiently is paramount. Whilst we speak of formalised profess…

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Despite the snow, we had a brilliant day Stamford Park Trust. Huge thanks to all our presenters for making the switch to online

Only 2 more days to go for our Trust wide Staff conference
We have an incredible line up of guest speakers with presentations on Powerful Questioning, Retrieval Practice, How Learning Happens, Powerful Teams and Inclusion by design

Excited to share our Trust inset day plans with our staff today across Stamford Park Trust and looking forward to welcoming all our guest facilitators in the new year

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Learning Systems: Shaping the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education | Bellwether

Learning Systems: Shaping the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Three-part report from @bellwetherorg bellwether.org/publications...

This is a great thread of some amazing articles. Thanks for sharing ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Little Guide for Teachers: Cognitive Load Theory

Cognitive load theory isn’t everything, but it’s an extremely useful set of ideas for teachers to know about.

There are other guides to the theory but I wrote a short book.

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Time to re-introduce ourselves

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We are Evidence Based Education, a teacher development, school improvement and research organisation, and the home of the Great Teaching Toolkit.

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SEND: it’s not just good teaching (but it is good teaching) When you walk into an inclusive classroom, you can often tell straightaway. It’s in the relationships, the communication, the learning environment. But these things (secure relationships, clear commun...

Hopefully a blogpost that colleagues find useful.

SEND: it’s not just good teaching (but it is good teaching)

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Have teachers taken over BlueSky yet? @bsky.app

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If you see this, why not say hello and drop me a follow!

Here’s a link to my FREE T&L toolkit-

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Packed full of ideas!

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Come along to an amazing and accessible event on 28 September - WomenEd West Midlands celebrate Disruptive Women

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Highly recommend joining this network, great discussions, sharing of practice and collaboration. All resources and recordings are shared , which is so helpful⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨🤩

WomenEd have organised a West Midlands Unconference in Birmingham on 28 September. Grab a ticket (inc. lunch) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womened-we...

And we'd be delighted if you volunteered a session: forms.office.com/e/QeHLee0Pr5

High think/high participation ratio in English - Ideas, thoughts and musings Ensuring high think/high participation ratio in English Background: I’ve had cause to revisit Doug Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion (TLAC...

I see some people are sharing old blog posts. Here’s my offering. This isn’t my most popular in terms of numbers but probably the one I like the most!

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The goal of the curriculum and the shape of the attainment curve Eddie (aged 7) and I have been chatting about assessment theory. Eddie: Some children in my class know all the grades you get at secondary school. But I only know one grade and that’s grade B. ME: Wel...

New blogs coming soon, but in the meantime here is an old one I wrote about primary assessment reform. Likely to be a live topic over the next few years. #edusky #edublogshare rebeccaallen.co.uk/2021/12/30/t...

Developing a spoken language curriculum (16 September 2024, 15:45 - 16:30) | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Teachers ! 📣This event is for any teacher with an interest in developing children’s spoken language, whether in their own classroom or at whole school level. FREE on line
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Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days!

What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵

Its completed. Poster number 5 in the Reframing behaviour series I was promoting on that other platform. I have in the region of 50 different strategies to add to this building toolkit. Here is @trythisteaching.bsky.social blog post turned into a one page, one minute read poster

Would not let me add a link and photo in the same post. Something for future development @bsky.app