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@PepsMccrea

Apr 27

Many students recognise the power of spacing their study.

However, few manage to make it work consistently in practice.

@examstudyexpert suggests that spacing rituals can help students overcome this knowing-doing gap.

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Our brains are selective when it comes to building knowledge.

We typically forget most academic content we encounter... unless we take proactive steps to remember it.

One of the most effective approaches entails retrieving ideas multiple times over increasingly distributed time intervals.

(aka spaced retrieval practice)

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Peps

@PepsMccrea

Apr 6

One of the most effective ways to drive effective inclusion is to make our teaching ‘accessible by default’.

Let's dig into what that means:

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‘Accessible design’ is a well-established concept in other sectors.

Ramps in buildings, braille in lifts, websites that work with screen readers—these all help more people access what's already there.

Classrooms should be no different.

Accessible design in teaching means making lessons as usable as possible from the outset, for as wide a range of students as possible.

Then, only adapting further when necessary—and in the lightest-touch way.

(rather than leaning into personalisation, such as with UDL)

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Peps

@PepsMccrea

Mar 30

The double-edged sword of SEND labels:

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Labels play an important role in education. They help students access targeted support and guide us in responding to particular needs.

However, they can also have unintended downsides—they are a double-edged sword.

Labels can influence expectations.

Teachers who know a student’s diagnosis can—often unconsciously—lower their expectations, asking fewer complex questions or offering less peer collaboration.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

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Peps

@PepsMccrea

Mar 23

*Diagnostic overshadowing* can thwart inclusive teaching.

What's useful for teachers to know:

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Diagnostic overshadowing is a term originating in medical contexts (and introduced to me by @Barker_J).

It describes the phenomenon where doctors inadvertently place too much emphasis on a patient's diagnosis, overshadowing other significant health concerns.

For example, a patient diagnosed with depression might have their physical symptoms—like fatigue or headaches—mistakenly attributed to their mental health condition, potentially overlooking a critical underlying physical illness requiring separate treatment.

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Peps

@PepsMccrea

Mar 16

Two core ideas underpin effective inclusive teaching:

1. Cognitive similarity
2. Instructional sensitivity

Let’s dig into both…

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IDEA 1

The first idea—cognitive similarity—helps us understand that:

→ the way people learn is more similar than it is different.

Despite its intuitive appeal (largely because it aligns with our modern liberal values), the notion that students learn best when taught in a way that is unique to their particular needs or preferences lacks empirical support and can even impede learning.

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Peps

@PepsMccrea

Mar 9

It’s important to consider *measurement error* when assessing learning.

Otherwise, there is potential for misplaced confidence:

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Reliability refers to the ability of a measure to produce a similar result under similar conditions.

If I weigh 70kg and my scales always show 70kg, they are reliable. Lovely.

However, when I use my scales in the garden, they aren't quite as reliable (the grass messes with their mechanics).

They tend to fluctuate by about 2kg, and so for me they show a result somewhere between 68-72kg.

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