@mstara.bsky.social
Learner. KS1 teacher. Curriculum and Assessment Lead.
Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
The Knowledge Revival
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I recently sat down with Amplify’s Science of Reading: The Podcast host, Susan Lambert. We chatted about the science of learning, how cognitive load affects learning, and more. Listen to the full episode here: amplify.com/science-of-r...
15.06.2025 23:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This next term I’d like to commit to spending more time thinking deeply about what I’m teaching and work on developing increasingly flexible mental models so that I can respond and refine my lessons more sensitively in the moment.
05.01.2025 12:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel like this is a key idea in Claire Sealy’s blogpost. Carefully planning not just what we’ll teach next but also thinking deeply about possible misconceptions and building in strategic retrieval opportunities.
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Reading through the blogpost really made me reflect on a recent Substack post by Sarah Cottinghatt: cognitivecoaching.substack.com/p/dont-use-p...
In the post she discusses how teachers who have spent time developing flexible mental models can engage more sensitively to unexpected situations.
What does adaptive teaching look like? All too often teachers are told to make their classroom adaptive but what exactly is adaptive?
This blogpost by Claire Sealy gives excellent concrete examples: primarytimery.com/2024/03/29/a...
Exploring how Understanding by Design could help structure and help create quality Mode B learning experiences.
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This. But not just for the early years. Even as children grow there is space for both. We don’t need to have a dichotomy. It can be equally true that children need some more formal learning alongside child-initiated play. Just perhaps with varying ratios as children develop.
20.11.2024 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I haven’t been able to get my hand on it yet! I’m really interested in reading the section about complementary sequencing and flexible connectivity. It sounds exactly like what I want to wrap my head around.
20.11.2024 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post from me on the expertise reversal effect and why I don't find it very helpful: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/a-critique... #mtbos #iteachmath #edusky
19.11.2024 13:33 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
“Our curriculum should be in service to our children and not the other way around” (p.21)
Lately I’m thinking about how to combine really good quality teaching with rich opportunities to develop schema and create meaningful connections.
This book was a good place to start @emmaturner75.bsky.social
