S.A.M Rundell

Scottish (she/her/they/them) I write stories and paint pictures. Sometimes there are dragons. S.A.M._Rundell on Instagram :)

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

My best nine of 2022. ☺️ #bestnine2022 #Artsummary2022

[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

It’s finally here.

The first episode of Talking Scottish Education is available on Apple Podcasts now.

In it @stuartphysics and I speak with @BarryBlackNE & @MrDegsy about the Education Bill (Scotland), navigating Scottish education policy and the role of teachers in shaping education policy.

We’d love for you to listen and carry on the conversation using #talkscoted

[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

Introducing Talking Scottish Education with @dnleslie & ⁦@stuartphysics⁩

A new podcast that cuts through the noise and gets to the heart of the debates in Scottish education.

Available on all podcasting platforms from Tuesday 15th April

#talkscoted

[Christopher Such @Suchmo83]

If I've ever taken the time to reply to a request from you for advice on here - and you have read Primary Reading Simplified - please consider *retweeting* this tweet and giving the book a quick rating (or even a review) from where you bought it.

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

@JamesAFurey Is this the same thing as reciprocal reading - everyone in the group has a role like clarifier or questioner?
These are v popular in Scottish primary schools right now and I’ve never found them especially helpful.

[Enlighten @enlighten_scot]

If you missed our fascinating education discussion earlier today with @Bruce_NextLevel, @daisychristo, Prof Paterson and chaired by @chrisdeerin, catch up here ⬇️👀📺
https://t.co/5oTzXVEATC

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

@reformscotland @chrisdeerin @Bruce_NextLevel @daisychristo Will there be a recording made available for those of us teaching during the event?

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

@tombennett71 I think if we were actually encouraged to teach effectively and efficiently, class sizes wouldn’t matter so much. Instead we have about 5 different groups doing different things, play, inquiry learning, poor behaviour…that’s tough with even a small class.

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

Any other Scottish teachers out there feeling very alone as they read and learn about cognitive science and education? Any one else feel miles away from being able to make meaningful change because Scottish education is so out of date?

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

GROOVY, BABY. It's striking how dated many of these ideas are. Every ten years or so these suggestions- interdisciplinary learning, skills for the future etc- are thrown in the pot and served as something innovative and bold. In reality, they are reheated 19th century progressivism.

[Anne Glennie @anneglennie]

Something not adding up here. 🤔

[Anne Glennie @anneglennie]

Should we wait until age 7 to teach children to read?

A worrying thread with concerning viewpoints.

I've written about how reading levels the playing field and should not be withheld: https://t.co/jG8Zb1XRzj

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Reading Recovery is a discredited program that has even been binned by the UCL. It has long been known to be a poor way to teach children. Nobody should be going near it in 2024. Wrong choices like this cost children opportunities, and their right to literacy

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

Anyone know of any research around ‘teacher talk’? How much should teachers be talking compared to students? #edutwitter

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

I would like to discredit the entire field of education research by creating a compendium of popular and widely-cited results and showing how shoddy the underlying research is

Please point me to studies that I should look into.

I'll list a few that I'm already aware of below

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

I think the problems with the Scottish curriculum arise from the assumption that skills can be taught directly.

That’s the foundational flaw which causes so many practical problems.

https://t.co/SBmPG7Mjfn

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

@sharemath @mrbartonmaths has great stuff about ‘silent teacher’ in his book. I use it all the time and it’s amazing how effective it can be.

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

@greg_ashman Do you know if there’s a rough minimum age for explicit teaching? I have to teach with ‘playful pedagogy’ for 4-6 year olds and it seems completely at odds with everything I’ve learned about Rosenshine/CLT/explicit teaching. Does it apply to eyfs?

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

Scottish schools have tumbled from top of the class. This is what went wrong | Sonia Sodha | The Guardian https://t.co/34N3oae6Er

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

Yup…

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

A remarkable article in Sunday Times on the Scottish curriculum.

When Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence was introduced in 2010, I was told repeatedly that its skills-based focus was superior to knowledge-rich approaches I & others supported.

13 years on & what do we see?

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

@infinxtitan Aren’t they though!?!😊

[S.A.M Rundell @rundell_s]

The Muderbot Diaries by Martha Well. Also, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers