Application: If a task takes 20 minutes to be completed but you assign 1 hour to complete the same task, you can be certain that it will take an hour to be completed, even though you could have completed it in 20 mins.
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Procrastination is a self-regulation FAILURE that esteems "short-term mood repair and emotion regulation over the longer term pursuit of intended actions" - Dr. Tim Pychyl
📖Another MUST READ article for T-EDs/coaches.
'Parsing the Practice of Teaching' by Mary Kennedy
https://t.co/7VEuvXi1T8
I'm obsessed with this paper - probably talk about it too much TBH - and here's why
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🔥Two important arguments here:
1) We must move away from whole-school inset-style CPD and towards an Instructional Coaching model...
2) To achieve this, build a culture where teachers know that improvement requires constant effort.
These two combined = perfect CPD.
We, on the other hand, have often behaved as though teaching skills were so easily acquired that a simple presentation, one-day workshop, or single videotaped demonstration were sufficient to ensure successful classroom performance."
👨🏻🎓Teacher Educator Quote of the week:
From the 1982 Instructional Coaching classic, 'The Coaching of Teaching' by Showers and Joyce.
https://t.co/LTwLYNg7st
Free Gift: Strong 80s hair-styles!!!
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God bless you @meredithakers!! May God continue to give you a bounty of knowledge and blessings for helping new teachers like me! https://t.co/1X0kuehqGc