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My Learning Journey: Can I be that little bit better at......wrestling with the intervention lesson monster?

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Thinking out aloud, reflecting and sharing thoughts about my teaching. @davidfawcett27. Can I Be Better? Tuesday, 3 March 2015. Can I be that little bit better at.wrestling with the intervention lesson monster? I'm in a very fortunate position to be able to network and even work with numerous teachers and departments across the country. One thing that has come up quite often of late is the following scenario. It's OK Miss, I'll do it in catch up class after school on Thursday". Are the provisions, all wi...

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Which knowledge? | Pragmatic Education

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Ideas are the currency of the 21st century*. Combining Tradition and Innovation →. February 28, 2015. I often ask pupils at family lunch at Michaela what their favourite subject is. Many of them reply, ‘. I love every subject, sir! What we choose to teach plays a big part in how much our pupils love learning. At Michaela, we decide which knowledge to teach based on three principles: schemata,. Roman Rhetoric, epic poetry and Shakespeare’s. Malcolm X’s autobiography, Duffy’s. A Long Walk to Freedom. In sh...

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#TLT14: Another amazing day in Southampton | teachertweaks

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Small changes can make a big difference! TLT14: Another amazing day in Southampton. It was about this time last year, still buzzing after the first ever Teaching and Learning Takeover (#TLT13) that we found ourselves asking whether Jen and David would really be prepared to go through it all again. It is a massive undertaking to organise an event of this scale and was so well organised, we were absolutely stoked to have the opportunity to present and really hoped that TLT would happen again in 2014. If yo...

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Should you start using multiple choice tests? | …to the real.

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8230;to the real. There will never be a just social order until philosophers are kings, or kings become philosophers. Yes or No – Everyone should learn all 195 countries in the world, and their capitals? The response – Should everyone learn all 195 countries, their locations and capitals? Should you start using multiple choice tests? February 8, 2015. 1 They can be exceptionally rigorous. As Daisy Christodoulou sets out first here. A It built up armed forces. B It took away human rights. 2 They can be ma...

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Revision: Advice for parents | Mr Lock's Weblog

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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! December 2, 2014. Revision: Advice for parents. We’ve recently rewritten our (42 page) booklet giving advice to parents on how best to support their children in advance of examinations. This booklet use to contain advice on post-it notes, making up songs, sticking posters to the ceiling above their bed, and hundreds of other strategies, many of dubious efficacy. Helping your child to revise. Our mantra for revision is to recap and practise. Research shows...

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My favourite question: ‘What do you not understand?’ | Reflecting English

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In search of classroom answers. My favourite question: ‘What do you not understand? May 3, 2015. I can still remember studying. At secondary school. My teacher took us through the play line-by-line and, even now, his face, his classroom and even the Times Roman font of the cheap edition I read from spring vividly to mind whenever I think of the words ‘Beware the Ides of March’ or ‘Et tu, Brute? So, a simple question I have started to ask is this:. What do you not understand? I would especially recommend ...

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The Hydra Part 2 – Esse Quam Videri

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The Hydra Part 2. June 5, 2015. November 2, 2015. The Hydra Part 2. Weikart and Scweinhart’s [Perry] High/Scope Preschool Curriculum comparison Study Through Age 23’. And Lifetime Effects: The HighScope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40 (2005). For details of these studies see Part 1. There was an enormous educational experiment beginning in 1968 comparing these two approaches called Project Follow Through. Evaluation of the project occurred in 1977, nine years after the project began. The results...

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jonpatrick | Pedfed

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Educators shootin' from the hip. Primary school teacher and head of year two at an all through school in London. This year’s primary assessment data will be useless because everyone is going to just game it. The new assessment criteria. Alongside the statements, there is clear guidance in how children should be assessed. Most importantly:. Children should only be assessed once they have completed the key stage. The statements should not be used for ‘tracking’ progress part way through the year. During a ...

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Festival of Education – 2014 | …to the real.

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8230;to the real. There will never be a just social order until philosophers are kings, or kings become philosophers. Festival of Education Speech in the Sunday Times. Codified Body of Knowledge – Response to Challenges – Part 1 →. Festival of Education – 2014. October 4, 2014. I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while now. It’s the full transcript of my speech from Wellington this year. I’m still keen to hear other teachers’ thoughts on and challenges to the ideas here. Well I live with two lawyers, ...