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I'm proud to announce that I've written a book! If you want to know how ideas from cognitive science and explicit instruction can be applied to teaching English, it may be of interest.
Explicit English Teaching is out now. If you are interested in applying Cog Sci/direct instruction ideas to teaching English, it will be right up your street.
I'm just about to start the last (13th) book of Lemony Snicket with my daughter. We've both loved the whole series: deliciously horrible characters; fantastic world building/plot and Snicket writes sooo well! Can anyone recommend a series to follow?
Can anyone share how they assess at KS3? I'm looking for blogs/explanations of approaches etc. Do you asses progress? Attainment? How do you report to students/parents etc. What data do you record and what do you use it for?
@tombennett71
@teacherhead
@DavidDidau
please share!
Ofqual finds that Comparative Judgment is more reliable than traditional marking, even if you do less judging than is recommended. It is also MUCH quicker, has inbuilt moderation, allows a HOD to see whole cohort of responses and you build up stocks of pdf student model answers.
Ofqual finds 4 judgements per script under Comparative Judgement achieves the same reliability as single marking, 5 the same as double marking, and thereafter exponential gains in reliability compared to marking! CJ: Efficient, Reliable, Valid.
This is brilliant! Jon looks at the huge benefit of increasing retrieval practice and application in lessons, applying one of the core principles of Engelmann's DI: 15% new material/85% review per lesson.
If you are interested in booking me for school training, I am available from Monday 16th Oct until Friday 27th Oct. ✅ English Specific curriculum/pedagogy
✅ Cognitive Science
✅ Literacy across the curriculum
✅ Explicit/direct Instruction
Tom is rocking it at the
@OAT_English
conference in Stratford
@Tom_Needham_
> really helping us to identify and fill gaps in our instructional sequences
@teacherhead
(aka Tom Sherrington) has reorganised Rosenshine's ten strategies of his Principles of Instruction report into a more powerful four-stage lesson structure. Genius. Download a pdf from
Engelmann’s Direct Instruction getting a lot of attention recently. I am going to be writing a series of short blogs about some of his principles applicable to maths teaching. Here are some poster summaries I created with
@olicav
found here:
Just finished this and it's brilliant-filled with fascinating insights into narrative structure, character and the reasons why stories are so important. Thoroughly recommended!
We are still looking for an English Teacher for a January start. DM me if interested. Our school has:
1) Supportive SLT
2) workload friendly approaches (booklets, WCF, centralised systems).
3) Experienced, collegiate English Dept
4) Excellent Behaviour
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"The more lessons are simplified, the more they flow into a routine, the happier the pupils seem to be. It reduces the extraneous load and allows them to focus on the bit of the lesson they love" Completely Agree!