
As schools and colleges return to full-on remote learning, I’ve been asked multiple times to provide suggestions to support teachers in this …
Remote Learning: Live or offline, cover the basic elements.
Teaching and Learning
As schools and colleges return to full-on remote learning, I’ve been asked multiple times to provide suggestions to support teachers in this …
Remote Learning: Live or offline, cover the basic elements.
This week’s tip is a gold mine of information around educational research. I’m not going to claim any credit – I was completing a course this week around Retrieval Practice as part of the Teaching & Learning offering and came across a reference to the above blog.
Tom Sherrington has summarised and collated a range of research that is relevant to our practice and combined it to support teachers to root classroom activities in research.
There are some that are longer than others, but often Sherrington has focussed the attention to specific pages.
Give it a go, and let me know if you have any ideas for future posts.
There may already be several Twitter converts among us…but if you aren’t one of them, here’s a few reasons why you may want to join.
Give it a go, and let me know how you get on! For tips on who to follow, check this out: https://www.doodlemaths.com/2019/08/05/top-10-education-accounts-to-follow-on-twitter/
Looking forward to delving into our areas for development:
– Challenge
– Scaffolding
– Online learning
– Vocabulary
https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/blog/taking-the-lid-off-stretch-and-challenge-in-the-classroom
@teacherhead explores ideas about attitudes and mindsets, and their influence on attainment. Ideas of embedding challenge into routine has certainly got me thinking of ways to implement #teachtothetop, leaving no child ‘under-challenged’.
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/scaffolding-lessons-six-strategies-rebecca-alber
Great article by @WordLib. Love the ideas on modelling!
Teaching Online: Using ‘Lecture Pauses’ Helps Retention
@TeacherToolkit up next for our ‘Online Learning’ research. Not only a great reference guide to other blogs he’s written, but sharing thoughts about encouraging reflection whilst teaching online.
‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’
Last, but never least: vocabulary. For this, there’s one key expert to consider @HuntingEnglish and the idea that one can never ‘over-do’ vocabulary.
This return to school has been like no other. As usual, we have had to face confirmation of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve after a long summer break; …
4 ways to make every minute of every lesson count in the time of Covid-19