Educational Psychology Services for Schools

This article captures the importance of implementation science in pedagogy- but the evidence also says that the approach we choose matters. As always education is a complex interplay of factors.

Could This Approach Help Your School Reduce the Risk of Exclusion? Permanent exclusion is rarely about a single incident. More often, it reflects unmet needs, escalating pressures, and a lack of time to step back and understand what a young person is communicating th...

Could this approach help your school reduce the risk of exclusion? www.edpsychschool.com/post/could-t...

Merry Christmas from Educational Psychology Services for Schools

The key to successfully using FASE will be carefully matching the excerpt to be read to the individual child- and not putting children in a position where they dread being called upon.
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There is a debate about the best way to teach reading. However, irrespective of which pedegogy informs practice, joy in reading is a must!
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Talk partners is an excellent approach to engaging learners.

In the UK groups of 6 seats are common in primary schools, and rows of paired desks more common in secondary schools. Some places are experimenting with beanbags, standing desks and clip boards though!

Would be interesting to read the blog!

Quietude is wisdom's ally.

Great point! Purposeful learning rocks!

Loving this tip (and that it has a reference 😇)

Becoming poverty informed...it's a must. However- surely this means we need material change?

Certainly girls' attainment seems to raise social consternation- perhaps this blog has good ideas about why. "The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers."

How to Read Whole Books In Class Lately, a debate has taken over the science of reading community: should we read whole books in ELA class? While this might seem like a no-brainer to the general populace (uh, of course we should, the...

Three great strategies for reading whole books in class, from the Science of Reading Classroom blog.

Maybe theres a blog/ research out there on seating arrangements? You've inspired me to keep an eye out...

👍Nice blog by SoL on Substack.

The Power of Quiet Engagement in the Classroom In many classrooms, we mistake noise and activity for real learning.

Great blog on metacognitive routines and how they can be used to support learning.

Writing in Colours If you can afford coloured pens (and stop the rest of the department using them for colouring in), then writing in colours can be a great w...

Enjoying this blog on teaching modern foreign languages (and I bet the activities work equally well for teaching English language too).

David Didau (@daviddidau) On designing effective assessment

Deficit thinking is often too abstract to help move understanding on, yet specific enough to build barriers to the belief it is possible.

The ever-present difficuly of the 'spend to save' paradox.

However, from an Educational Psychology point of view, meaningul changes to support the child, family and school can be made without waiting for diagnostic assessments. Indeed, even when these have happened, EPs are often needed to 'translate' the findings into actions schools can take 🤔

Just because "awe & wonder" should be on the curriculum...

Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis? Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?

Useful analysis of the SEND crisis "Contrary to headlines about SEND doubling since 2010, the overall percentage of children with SEND has not dramatically risen. What has gone up is the proportion of those children designated as needing an EHCP for support."

The curriculum is always designed to meet the needs that can be envisioned for the current workforce. It's therefore always at least decade behind where the world will be when pupils finish their studies.

Schools are a reflection of dominant interests in society- both "caused by" and a "response to" social norms.

Now this study seems rich in potential for educators...but too removed from classrroom realities, as it stands...

Teacher Voices Can Improve Policy–If We Listen When it comes to education policymaking at the state level, lots of cooks are typically in the kitchen: legislators, state board members, education department officials, union representatives, nonprof...

This blog is about an American state, but the question remains: How much influence do teacher voices have at the table?

Mini Whiteboards Knowledge-Building for Teachers Series

Nice blog on the effective use of whiteboards to ensure effective teaching. open.substack.com/pub/lstam/p/...

Turn and Talk: A Small Move That Changes the Room Hi Champions,

Loving this blog on getting the most from peer interaction in class.

Harriett Janetos (@harriettjanetos) Spectacularly helpful! These are the questions being posed right now in Wales as Dominic Wyse (The Balancing Act) pushes the Literacy Panel to adopt contextualized phonics instruction where orthograph...

Interesting information about developing phonics instruction. English has a 'deep orthography' which means that compared to other European languages, contextual teaching of phonics makes a lot of sense.