THREAD on 'The Writing Revolution' (TWR) and its applicability when teaching students to write in history.

(I hope to write a blog/article on this topic later when I have more time but here are some of my initial, undeveloped thoughts). 1/14 First, TWR makes a number of recommendations that I strongly agree with. For example, explicit teaching of writing; serious focus on the levels of sentence and clause; all teachers taking responsibility for teaching writing; emphases on planning and revising etc. etc. 2/14

Thread on ‘magpie’ culture. Over the last few months I’ve seen a number of tweets sharing my resources without citing the pieces they’re originally from. IMO, it’s good practice to always cite the relevant blog/article. First, it’s just polite. The resources I create and 1/6 crucially the accompanying context I write up in articles or blogs about the lessons the resources come from take a lot of time and effort. Second, and more importantly, citations are key for the reader to appreciate the rationale behind the resource’s creation, see how that 2/6

I began writing blogs to procrastinate wildly in face of a looming article deadline. Now the deadline’s far too close to ignore! Won’t be any new posts for a while but thanks everyone for your kind and constructive feedback. Below is a recap of the posts if you’re interested. What historiography might teach us about teachers indulging in lazy comparisons to Nazism. jcarrollhistory.com/2017/10/23/pro…

@MrBelkHistory @LeeDonaghy @LRyall_History @History__Girls Sorry, my fault prob trying to do too much in 140 characters! E.g.let's say 1 school comes up w/ an idea that massively improves outcomes1/2 @MrBelkHistory @LeeDonaghy @LRyall_History @History__Girls 2/3 that might provide the basis for a large-scale research project involving lots of schools to test whether the intervention helps all