Jo Castelino

Delighted to make a summary of this EXCELLENT book - thought-provoking and extremely useful, and one of the BEST chapters about 'How Do We Learn' that I have read. Thanks @drcastelino.bsky.social

Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...

This is a brilliant book. I highly recommend all leaders buy it!

Todays review comes from the Queen of Homework herself @drcastelino.bsky.social Thanks Jo for all your help and encouragement 🙏

It's been a while since I've been on here. Thank you so much for sharing Paul!

AI'm not doing the homework In the age of AI permeating everything, is homework, as we know it, dead?

How do we make sure homework is still valuable when AI can 'do it for them?' Excellent post from @drcastelino.bsky.social

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Homework: Purposeful, practical, positive. It is a question that often rears its head – just how much #homework should we be setting at primary school level? @drcastelino.bsky.social looks at the evidence & gives us a few practical pointers: buff.ly/TSBIsZM #teachers #schools #edusky

🤣🤣🤣 I totally missed this! I was only joking. You are definitely one of us 🥰

I am heartbroken by this news. I am so so sorry. Dawn's writing improved my teaching and thinking immeasurably.

I'm really looking forward to reading this book ( I have read lots of positive reviews & recommendations!).

I haven't read a book dedicated to Homework before so I think this book will be very helpful & important.

Congratulations @drcastelino.bsky.social 👏🎉

Beyond busywork: Meaningful homework that actually helps students learn - SecEd Practical ideas for how teachers can set effective homework tasks that stop students from forgetting their learning

The #homework #teachers set must play a core role in helping students to learn – or to put it another way helping them not to forget. @drcastelino.bsky.social offers advice on how to get your homework tasks right: https://buff.ly/4hItGwG #teaching #schools

Beyond busywork: Meaningful homework that actually helps students learn - SecEd Practical ideas for how teachers can set effective homework tasks that stop students from forgetting their learning

The #homework #teachers set must play a core role in helping students to learn – or to put it another way helping them not to forget. @drcastelino.bsky.social offers advice on how to get your homework tasks right https://buff.ly/4hItGwG #teaching #schools

The most read article of the week was ‘Homework: three big questions (plus one more) ’ by @drcastelino.bsky.social 📚

If the student, school and parents all have completely different conceptions of homework then it's likely to be a waste of everyone's time.

If you're looking for an authoritative book on homework then look no further than this from @drcastelino.bsky.social It's useful for teachers but as a parent I found it even more useful.

The Long Game has been out almost a month

Here’s what @drcastelino.bsky.social thought

Okay, just watched Episode 1 and WOW!

They look perfect!!

Congratulations, Pritesh! It looks immense!

IT’S HERE! I am a massive believer in the power of concrete examples. This 4-part documentary shows lessons & unpacks the thinking behind them.

Huge thanks to @pepsmccrea.bsky.social, the team at Steplab, Postcode films & of course colleagues & pupils for their involvement. 🙌🏼

Have ?s re homework? Highly recommend @drcastelino.bsky.social new book: The Homework Conundrum! #PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching

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Still not reached Taylor Swift level though 🤣

It is so...mad.

The secret sauce for professional development…

I'll see if I can convince my colleague to blog about it! I could do with a breakdown refresher.

Woo hoo! SO excited to be speaking - it's going to be great to meet so many fabulous people!

Tickets here: bit.ly/rEDNYC

No I haven't. I have modelled with the slope of my hand but I think actually using a ruler under the visualiser while students do the same in their booklets has more power. The teacher I observed also demonstrates calculation of the gradient at different points to show how it changes.

Yes. I used to do the cell models too and then tried providing the materials to help but with hardly any gain. With something like what you did with your daughter, perhaps it is best as an optional suggestion of an activity to do but not as a piece of homework.

Were the schools providing these opportunities and the gap still widened? I think with homework, it needs to be something that all students can easily access and do (the thinking is the hard bit) but wonderful opportunities like the one in the initial post are done at school.

How to teach descriptions of graphs (such as accelerating at an increasing rate, etc.) by using a ruler to show students how the gradient actually changes. So simple and yet I never thought of it before.