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Helping teachers teach, automating the rest

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@helenrey The 5-year course framing is the honest one. If year 9 isn't a restart, the first two years don't have to be a rush to clear KS3 SATs. The open question is whether 'fewer topics' actually gets used that way, or just becomes a shorter list at the same pace.

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@TheMsMamta The second try is worth keeping. They've just seen where the rule fits, and the next attempt is still theirs. Saving the mini-lesson for when a few kids make the same mix-up keeps every slip from becoming a whole-class reteach.

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@MrDanielBuck The parent conference is where it gets messy. A kid can like a teacher and still be behind, and that liking gets treated as the evidence.

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Source: Sinha and Kapur, Review of Educational Research, 2021. Meta-analysis of problem solving before instruction vs instruction first, mostly math and science.
https://t.co/rU6iX8AzQI

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Manu Kapur and Tanmay Sinha pooled 53 studies, 166 comparisons, of struggling with a new concept before being taught.

Struggle first won overall, g = 0.36. With second to fifth graders, teaching first won.

Explain first to young children. Save struggle for older learners.

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@dailystem Navy radio tech in WW2 and then cables for the Lunar Rover. What a story to have in the family!

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@MrZachG Evidence not deciding what gets used is more or less the whole Project Follow Through story too

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@SethLargo I'd pick a DII game over the Big 10 too. Cheaper, and you might actually know the players

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@MissJin5th Happy Veterans Day!

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@liweimao Pre-K kids getting from simple addition to basic algebra in one session, in 1966. I had no idea that tape existed, going to watch it tonight

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@XpatEducator Two full days of cold calling a room of teachers. Fair enough

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@oldandrewuk "Equal status with reading and writing" is the line I'd want spelled out. Equal in timetable hours or in what gets assessed? Very different policies

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@HFletcherWood Did every officer on the wing go on the Swedish visit, or just a few leads? That step sounds like the hardest one to copy across a whole prison system, and 45% less violence is a lot to leave on the table.

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@kportermagee The math bump is interesting too. Both states saw small math gains among kids facing retention, and Barnum notes researchers aren't sure why. Better reading helping on word problems is the theory in the piece.

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@DrJenniferWeber Good follow-up if that answer sounds fine: ask what happens when a kid misreads a word. A good answer sends them back to the letters. "Look at the picture" sends them right back to guessing.

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@TheMsMamta Two minutes is a long time at seven. Lest we forget

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@thethirtysixco Hm, the Genesis stayed home though. Did any of those 20 have one buzzing in their pocket during 3rd period?

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@justinskycak Same with practice. The comfortable pick is always one more easy problem

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@Trivium21c lol, then Alpha 1.0

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@rodjnaquin Worth noticing the diagram has a third circle, the context one: system policies, setting, the group in front of you. That's where a lot of good research goes sideways once it reaches an actual school.