As thousands of year 7s begin their journeys tomorrow, here’s some thoughts from someone who is a former year 6 teacher, current secondary school teacher and transition coordinator 🧵🪡
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My new book about VAR is out on 7 Nov.
It's about football.
It's also about authority, rationality & technology in the 21st century.
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I'm also giving away a free copy. Retweet this post and I'll pick a winner on Fri 25 Oct.
Interesting study on the split attention effect: presentation size and formats do not affect student comprehension as expected. In other words, your lesson format might not be as crucial as you thought. https://t.co/NxtK3lyXAL
New! A post that summarises some of the developments, trends and resources for maths teachers from the past year.
Kind of like a mega-gems-catch-up post to make sure everyone is up-to-date. 💎
https://t.co/60IwfkxIwQ
#mathsgems#mathschat#teammaths#mathscpdchat#mathstlp
*** Adaptive teaching and reasonable adjustments ***
“Though the differences start to get a little fuzzy, these subtle approaches can be of great value, so they are worthy of allocating time to define and deploy effectively.”
https://t.co/M38jmFYldx
**NEW POSTER: LEARNING & MEMORY** This summary outlines the five main elements of the simple model of the mind (perfectly visualised and interpreted by @olicav). These ideas underpin the first collection of summaries in my book ‘Teaching One-Pagers’.
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🚀 NEW BLOG
🤔 Why should teachers encourage students to 'opt-out' during questioning?
Quite a radical U-turn during questioning!
🔗 https://t.co/yrI3wKVFaD
🗣️ Strategic opting out can improve learning accuracy and teach students how to manage their cognitive load.
Here’s a thread on my 10 reflections from our ConnectED Live Event with @BeckfootTrust and @TTCTrust@JGProfDev this week with special guest @Doug_Lemov on Checking for Understanding: