Hayley Mckenzie

KS2 Teacher. 23 years in the game. 🌍 love to travel. Always dreaming of warmer climes ☀️now a teacher in Dubai 🇦🇪 year 5 and 6 Science specialist

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🧠 Effective teaching depends on understanding how learning happens.

Daniel Willingham’s Simple Model of the Mind provides a practical lens for designing instruction grounded in key insights from cognitive science.

It helps teachers move beyond poor proxies for learning and make more deliberate decisions about what students attend to, think about, and remember.

The full What, Why, and How—plus a free planning resource—are available in this week’s ⚗️DistillED.

https://t.co/QGXjKEPjWe

[Kate Jones @KateJones_teach]

What does great teaching look like? The Model for Great Teaching is an excellent summary of the Great Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review (Coe et al, 2020).

1 Understanding the content.
2. Creating a supportive environment.
3. Maximising opportunity to learn.
4. Activating hard thinking.

@EvidenceInEdu
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[Andrew Whitworth NPQH @Whitworthtin4]

▶️ New Curriculum Leaders
▶️So the new Ofsted framework is out, whether we like it or not.
▶️Let’s create some practical toolkits we can all use to support each other.
▶️First up: What do we mean by Curriculum Adaptations?

[Emily Weston @primaryteachew]

This is KS2 (but can be easily adapted for KS3) but @CassHT & I will have a KS3 one to share by next week ☺️

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

This is free - and rather good if I may say! @MrGoodwin23 - a fab collaboration! Check it out

[Flowery Field @floweryfieldpri]

Getting to grips with celestial bodies in our solar system and distances in space. Year 5 made their very own ‘Solar System in My Pocket’. #ffpsscience @ogdentrust

[supritiffion @supritiffion]

In the last weeks of the yr, I always returned to looking at how grammar instruction could be improved. I know frequent, low-stakes exercises tied in with SoL is key but, my goodness… it never is a ‘done’ thing, is it!? Sharing my poster here. #SPaG #teamenglish #litdrive

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

ESSENTIAL GUIDES! Check out this powerhouse quartet for effective evidence-informed teaching:

📡 Checking for understanding
◽️ Mini-whiteboards
🏗️ Scaffolding learning
🫵 Accountable questioning

REPOST and grab all 4 FREE guides via my website or the ⚗️DistillED newsletter.

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[Mike Downes (NPQLTD) @MrDownesteach]

On Monday, our EiM Collaboration Group came together to discuss ‘The GTT: From Principles to Practice’, focusing on Dimension 4: Activating hard thinking. We used this D4 one-pager to facilitate meaningful conversations on how great teachers should present content and activities in ways that activate student thinking. The successful implementation of the elements outlined below is key to ensuring that students are thinking hard about the material we want them to learn:

✅ Element 4.1: Structuring
✅ Element 4.2: Explaining
✅ Element 4.3: Questioning
✅ Element 4.4: Interacting
✅ Element 4.5: Embedding
✅ Element 4.6: Activating

Please RP if you would like a copy of the D4 one-pager

@EvidenceInEdu @ProfCoe @ProfKime

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🧠 CLT! Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This guide summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning.

🌱 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here: https://t.co/Xj2XpPGvnu

📘📗 If you find these guide helpful, check out my books Teaching One-Pagers Volumes 1 and 2 on Amazon: https://t.co/fCMU90JkZx

[Hayley Mckenzie @hdrayson]

@MrBoothY6 The most annoying thing EVER!!!

[Hayley Mckenzie @hdrayson]

@MrBoothY6 One of my faves!

[Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @ImtaBrendan]

Fraction Cheat Sheet by Sarah Farrell

Available to download here https://t.co/QCq1IV92ku

[Lydia Davison @DavisonMiss]

😏A very negative post😏

4️⃣ways to use the Numicon negative number line to:

🪜Support & scaffold
🧱Build confidence through familiarisation
➡️Progress through a concept using same resource
⬇️Reduce workload of planning & resourcing
⬆️Increase engagement

Which would you try?😃

[Hayley Mckenzie @hdrayson]

@MrsHJT_ Same

[Hayley Mckenzie @hdrayson]

@DeputyGrocott Can I build another me. Excellent book for transition. I’ve used with all year groups in KS2. Great for recognising strengths and what makes us unique.

[Nathan Burns @MrMetacognition]

Just over 100 RTs away from me throwing a THIRD book in to this competition!

500 RTs means 3 books given away!

Wow!

[Nathan Burns @MrMetacognition]

🔉GIVEAWAY🔉

With 'Teaching Hacks' now available, I want to give away one free copy!

Simply follow and RT to be entered.

Drawn 29/06!

[🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk @TeacherToolkit]

IMAGINE IF...

... your school differentiated its approach to marking and feedback by taking formative assessment one step further?

By student capability

By format

Not all schools will be ready for this, but as ever, it will be pragmatic and #GuideToFeedback will show you how!

🔗 https://t.co/4i48VS6haL

[Oxford Primary @OUPPrimary]

📢 We're thrilled to announce we're working with @voice21oracy to shine a spotlight on #oracy in #maths!

Our #TalkForMaths Benchmarks include top tips to develop spoken maths skills in the classroom.

Download the benchmarks & share your feedback with us: https://t.co/pJTrgiLCTe