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24 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Physics teachers are going to go MAD when they start reading up on heat pumps
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25 Oct
These are interesting results. If anyone is interested in my thoughts:

~75% of teachers are giving 10 or fewer equations practice questions on average. This is definitely not enough. Why?

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The most basic equations have three variables, and therefore three forms that need solving (whether you rearrange then substitute or vice versa). You first introduce the equation, and do a worked example. Students should then do one (at least) on mini-whiteboards. >
You should then do another one, but with a desirable difficulty added, like a unit conversion. Not doing this means solving the next equations will be algorithmic and automatic, with students just putting the numbers in and not learning anything. >
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29 Sep
A story about exit tickets:

I once had a long chat with someone responsible for writing a *very large* and prestigious science scheme of work. They told me that after each lesson, there was a lesson ticket. >
What was the purpose of the exit tickets? To tell teachers if students understood what was in that lesson. Ok, says I. Let's say that students didn't understand lesson 1. [they nod]. I then plan an extra 20 minutes in lesson 2 to deal with it. [they nod].

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Then, in lesson 2, I only have 40 minutes to finish The Stuff, and I don't get to the exit ticket. When should I do the exit ticket for lesson 2?

[nodding stops]
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29 Aug
Ok edu-nerds: here is the MEGA-THREAD you have been waiting for...blogs from times gone past that you probably haven't read, but probably should. Buckle up. Rules go in the second tweet, blogs start in the third tweet.

Read, and share.

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Rules for contributing:

1. Blog must be from 2017 or earlier
2. Blog must be accompanied by a blurb from the contributor
3. If you contribute, do it as a reply to the last tweet on the thread to save repeats and keep things neat
4. Include @'s if you know it
First up is @ClareSealy's marvellous tour de force through a number of key aspects of cognitive science, thinking hard about different types of memory and how we teach for long term learning. primarytimery.com/2017/09/16/mem…
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10 May
@KateJones_teach Mm good question, one I get asked a lot. A few thoughts, though a full answer would be beyond the time I have just now:

1. Obviously a specified amount of time is a bad idea. It reeks of genericism and bad management.
@KateJones_teach 2. Consider *why* you do your Do Now. If it is to give your students the opportunity to do retrieval practice, then a five question starter is not going to cut the mustard. This is lethal mutation territory. >
@KateJones_teach I have around 600 questions in my bank for GCSE which excludes all procedures like balancing equations. If I wanted to cover each one just twice in a two year course, I would need 240 lessons. I have around 210 lessons. And that's just for twice!

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4 May
@ded6ajd Hi Andrew. So as a teacher who uses Cold Call a *lot,* I do actually agree with you that done badly it can be quite hazardous (though I don't agree with the framing). Below are a few things I would add:
@ded6ajd I only Cold Call when it is something I think students should be in with a chance of knowing. Quite often, students will say that they don't know the answer. I now have two options. Option 1 is to give them a hard time. I do this when it's something that I am expecting them to
@ded6ajd know, something they *should* know. E.g., we do regular retrieval quizzes on @Carousel_Learn. If an average student by this point in the year doesn't know the function of the mitochondria, they are simply not working hard enough. Letting them off the hook in this case betrays
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3 May
This thread is completely insane. I *strongly* urge as many teachers as possible to block Paul Garvey. I have been the victim of his bullying, and @tstarkey1212 is one of the best people around.
(as an aside, in general as a rule I don't tweet people I have blocked as I don't think it is very cricket. I make one exception for this: Paul Garvey. I make this exception because of the *enormous* following he has, and I can only assume people haven't seen the kind of awful
way he carries himself on here. the more followers he has, the more this behaviour gets rewarded, and the worse a space EduTwitter becomes. So yes, I make an exception.)
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