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Ah Goldilocks again!

Indeed. That's why I've invoked my teacher mother with her (supposed) rule of thumb of avoiding Too Much, Too Fast, Too Complex.

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Look what I found: my highlighted sentence from Jerome Bruner's 1971 Towards. Theory of Instruction.
Tell me this isn't a germinal notion of cognitive load.

I guess the teacher would have the best judgement. I can see advantages and disadvantages to both options.

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According to CLT's redundancy effect ("multiple sources of info can be understood separately"), the RHS diagram is not needed; causes overload in fact.
But some learners need both. Larkin & Simon (1987) concluded that diagrams often are more computationally efficient. Use both.

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Feedback: not one and done.

For all those teachers and speakers who use slides (all, thus, except John Sweller😂) I give you the 'Oli-Filter' . Please use it!
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Attempt | run through the 5 steps
Develop | add details in relation to your context
Adapt | tweak to personalise the technique
Practise | try, evaluate, adjust as you go
Test | measure the impact, gain insights.

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Coaches help identify real classroom challenges by offering an additional perspective: observing where students are struggling, offering practical tools for visits, data and videos to build insight, test hunches and explore learning problems.

Paivio, in his 1990 Mental Representstiins, talks about gesture, as well as other senses, as being contained within his non-verbal channel.

No, movement doesn't replace thinking. But it can hold information at no cognitive cost and to the benefit of retrieval.

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Modelling strategies (representation), breaking them down into chunks (decomposition) and adapting them (approximation) to suit different contexts is how expertise in teaching happens. Let @walkthrus.bsky.social RUs do a lot of this work.

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Our thinking and actions stem from what we see happening in the classroom. But what if we aren’t seeing clearly? This is where coaches offer an indispensable additional perspective.

Really pleased that the Spanish version of 'How Learning Happens' is finally coming out.
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A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.

I guess everybody does, in or outside of teaching. Being unconscious is part of being human I'd have thought — when I can gather all my attention together to have such a conscious thought.

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A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.

Ah thanks for the reminder.

Not sure I follow. Are you fully or partially sighted? If so, I've seen very interesting work with embossed graphic organisers with touch being the point of access to their non-linear organisation.

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I thought you might find this collection of quotes from the CLT stable interesting.

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In the Coaching WalkThrus book, @MattTeachCoach clarifies — really well — the nature & central role of mental models in developing the cognitive aspect of teaching.

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Given that Richard Mayer asserts that we learn best with a combination of words and images, it's essential that we consider of the quality of execution. And none better to remind us than Clark & Lyons (in their 500+ page ultimate research compendium).

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I'd say this is THE blog of the year. When real replication comes in education, hubris often follows.
So, of course, strive to be evidence-informed but, please, a little less confidence & pride when describing one's practice.
Bravo to @C_Hendrick.

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We’re all humans, engaged in learning. Successful coaching is as dependent on a common model of learning as successful teaching. It helps illuminate struggles and offers insights to unblock habit change and confusion.

My sympathies

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Coaching is difficult without a shared understanding of pedagogical techniques that solve learning problems. WalkThrus creates a common language to improve feedback and reduce miscommunication.

That, as you know, is an enormous issue. Alignment comes from agreeing end-points/goals. Then, the acknowledgement that there are multiple routes to there. As I've been banging on recently, the term, bought in by Werner Erhard, was to counter command-&-control compliance to one way only.

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The weekend's robbery at le Louvre promoted me to reread Edgar P Jacob's (a former colleague of Hergé) wonderful The Affair of the Necklace.

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When lesson observations, co-constructed feedback and action planning, are all referenced to a common model of learning, teacher learning really shifts. Harness this power of alignment with WalkThrus.

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Hit the EEF’s 14 mechanisms, in four areas, by integrating coaching with other PD activities. WalkThrus offer the common language and understanding to align activities.