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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. The Alchemy of Teaching. The alchemy of teaching. If you’ve got the knack). Is to find someone’s lost confidence. And simply give it back. Knowledge is just one of the means. The end (if truth be told). Is to take the lead weight in their hearts. And turn it into gold. No growth for teachers! Could end up stepping.

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Reading Speed and Imagination | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Reading Speed and Imagination. Young children read more slowly than adults. They take their time. They won’t let you turn the page until they have taken in every little detail in the picture. And if there aren’t any pictures, they will use their imaginations to make sure they have fully visualised the scene.

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The Devaluing of Wisdom | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. The Devaluing of Wisdom. There is a hierarchy that looks like this:. Wisdom Knowledge Information Data Signal. Wisdom is the highest. Signal is the lowest. Wisdom is the most human. Signal, the most mechanical. Cultures of the past respected wisdom. All wise people were listened to. What if this trend continues?

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Less Teaching More Learning | Moving towards a better education system | Page 2

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Fire and Ice in the Classroom. Read Fire and Ice. Before you read this post. Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice is a poem that keeps on giving. I could probably think of dozens of situations it could apply to. Take the classroom, for example. Easy in theory. Far more challenging in practice. Instead of blaming the abstr...

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Seeing the Outside of Things. The Illusion of Security. Remember the Lesson, Forget the Event. Fire and Ice in the Classroom. There’s No Such Thing As Pressure. The Hierarchy of Behaviour Management. A Future History Lesson. Food School – An Alternate Reality. The Alchemy of Teaching. That’s So Sad. What Qualific...

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Art, Not Science | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Art, Not Science. Teaching is an art. But the education system doesn’t respect arts. Thus, the education system doesn’t respect teaching. Some people have tried to remedy this by saying:. 8220;Actually, teaching is a science! And that has caused even more problems. Larr; Previous Post. You Cause What You Expect.

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shalim | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Seeing the Outside of Things. A boy in your class complains of a stomach ache. A quick glance at his face reveals hes telling the truth. He looks pale and sickly, as if he might vomit. You let him go to the school office so he can seek the appropriate help. Another boy then complains of the same thing. If you pla...

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Staff Turnover and League Tables | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Staff Turnover and League Tables. Some schools do a great job of retaining staff. They treat their teachers well, so teachers stay. Other schools don’t treat their staff so well, and people keep leaving. There is something we can do about this:. This will provide an incentive for schools to treat their staff well.

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Insecurity or Empowerment? | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Is the purpose of education to create insecure citizens or empowered ones? Our words and rhetoric all point towards the ideal of creating empowered people, who think for themselves, and have the courage of their convictions. Larr; Previous Post. Next Post →. Prescriptive Rules and Descriptive Rules.

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Prescriptive Rules and Descriptive Rules | Less Teaching More Learning

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Less Teaching More Learning. Moving towards a better education system. The Alchemy of Teaching. First They Picked On…. Point, Example, Explain. Don’t Analyse This Poem. Learning, Love, and Life. Prescriptive Rules and Descriptive Rules. The laws of nature are not like the laws of the land. The laws of nature describe how things behave. Not how they ought to behave. They are descriptive, not prescriptive. The laws of the land state how people ought to behave. (Or not behave.). Larr; Previous Post. Email c...