Thread by @ThatBenRanson

A short thread about the awesome things I learned today at #rEdBrum.

1. There a literally hundreds of teachers who have given up their Saturday to to hear and help work out what works. This is amazing.

#geographyteacher #cogscigeo

2. The @ErdingtonAcad has some of the politest and most helpful students I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. We should come here again @stoneman_claire.

3. Dual coding can do loads to support our students with the really great challenging stuff in Geography. @olicav’s understandable, articulate, and excellently delivered session showcases just how much it can support encoding for long term retention.

4. That long term retention is vital if we’re going to build the kind of cultural capital that @profdanielmuijs talked about in his keynote speech.

5. Legitimation Code Theory gives us a way to consider what is and isn’t disciplinary knowledge within our subject domain*, @Rosalindphys made the case for why sequencing is king and practical experiments need the prior knowledge in place if they’re to achieve their potential.

5.1 *Its entirely possible I've not understood Legitimation Code Theory and this isn't what it means at all, in my defense, even @Rosalindphys said it was nails, and she's a genius.

6. Classroom. Booklets. Planned. Collaboratively. Filled. With. Knowledge. And. Deliberate. Practice. Activities.

It's going to take me a while to unpack the bomb that @J450Nmolloy_Ed sets off in my head and what it means for the direction we’re taking our #knowledgecurriculum

7. Start with relatable concrete examples, maybe more than one, before moving onto abstract generalisations. @Mr_Raichura’s thoughts on using non-examples which share surface similarities to expose the underlying concept was #cogscisci gold dust.

8. Speaking of #cogscisci I’m declaring the start of #cogscigeo - yes, future historians, it started here, in this thread.

9. Challenge. It’s the foundation of a good curriculum, which is itself built on a bedrock of great behaviour.

Get challenge right, not through cognitive overload, but through sequencing and long term memory.

Also, something about only focusing on exams being bollocks...