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For those who can't make it to my #rED21 session tomorrow, here's the ultraconcise version:
1. Teaching expertise matters.
2. But developing expertise is not something we've cracked, yet.
3. Partly because of the noisy relationship between teaching and learning.
4. Our best bet is to focus on building expert mental models.
5. These consist of mechanics and strategies, encoded in embodied and fluent ways.
6. And organised around the perpetual problems of teaching.
7. We can systematically build these mental models by deploying the active ingredients of PD.
Of course, the reality is *way* more complex... seven images can only go so deep.

For folks interested in the full, complex and nuanced version, you're going to have to wait for the book (which you can PRE-ORDER FOR ONLY £5! ⤵️)

amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HT568NW

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Feb 5
16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks:

(all open source 🔓)

1/ Study exploring ‘warm-strict’ teaching

→ finds that combining deep care and high expectations helps to guide learning and build strong relationships

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…Image
2/ Pre-print comparing ability grouping vs mixed-ability from @JohnPeterJerrim

→ finds no clear differences in student outcomes (but primary teachers feel slightly more able to help struggling and high-achieving students with ability grouping)

johnjerrim.com/does-within-sc…Image
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Feb 2
Norms are more powerful than rules. How to leverage this idea in school:

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Norms are the unwritten rules that govern the behaviour and attitudes of a group (such as a society or school).

They are so powerful that they tend to override more formal rules or policies. Which is why, in schools, we ignore them at our peril.

The power of norms arises from two main mechanisms:
1/ Life is complex and uncertain.

Adopting the behaviours and attitudes of others is a quick and safe bet. This is why authors (like me) strive to get quotes on the front of our books and 5-star reviews on Amazon.
Read 12 tweets
Dec 8, 2024
40 of most fascinating edu-threads from the last 4 months:

1/ @C_Hendrick on the history and evidence around open-plan classrooms

@C_Hendrick 2/ @teacherfeature2 on how to cultivate psychological safety in school

Read 43 tweets
Nov 24, 2024
A quick thread on 'retrieval resistance':

(co-authored with ace memory psychologist William Wadsworth @examstudyexpert)

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@examstudyexpert Retrieval practice has the potential to be powerful for revision.

However, despite our efforts to educate students on this approach, it isn't always embraced wholeheartedly.

And so, we must also put in place steps to overcome what Wadsworth calls 'retrieval resistance'.
@examstudyexpert Retrieval is the act of pulling information out of memory rather than putting it in.

Such as quizzing ourselves with flashcards or writing down everything we can remember about a topic (in contrast say to re-reading something).
Read 15 tweets
Nov 20, 2024
(I tried to post this thread a couple of weeks ago but I didn't get to finish it smh)

For the last 8 years, over at @Steplab_co, we've been working on a project to codify HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHING.

A long-ish summary of what we've learned:

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@Steplab_co One of the essential ingredients of effective professional development is the provision of concrete & granular teaching 'strategies'.

These can be used as examples of 'what good looks like', which teachers can translate for their context, and practise in a productive way.
@Steplab_co However, it's also critical to help teachers see how such granular strategies fit into their broader teaching repertoire.

*Context* is as important as *content*.

Eg: How Cold Call fits into the wider goal of maximising pupil thinking, alongside Wait Time and other strategies. Image
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Nov 17, 2024
CONTINGENCY BLINDNESS

(aka why graded lesson observations don't work)

A mega-geeky thread I've been sitting on for 5 years:

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Imagine we wanted to create a system for evaluating doctors' effectiveness.

Suppose we designed a rubric outlining all the actions effective doctors typically perform:

→ Prescribe painkillers
→ Refer to specialists
→ Order blood tests
→ Conduct physical exams
→ etc.
Now imagine this system judged doctors solely on how well they fulfilled this rubric, regardless of whether these actions actually improved patient health.
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