Ben Rogers 🦄
@BenRogersEdu
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Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy @ParadigmTrust; primary sci, physics cogsci, explicit instruction; The Big Ideas of Physics.
Norfolk, UK
Joined February 2011
A short post with a question for secondary science teachers and literacy folk: is writing instruction when this student needs to reach their GCSE goals? Please comment.
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At the end of this post, please comment on whether writing instruction in KS3 science lessons is an appropriate use of class time. At the end of year 7, we set a writing task: “Describe the a…
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I'm reading about why my students, who are good readers, aren't learning from texts. This post is a short explanation of a useful way of thinking about depth of comprehension and why it is effortful.
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Or not quite good enough… I’m a decent reader, but I find recipes hard to follow. The trouble is that you have to get recipes right – or anyway, right enough. Even short recipes r…
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New post on the cognitive benefits of writing in full, rich and connected sentences:
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When we quiz students for knowledge retrieval, we are helping them remember key knowledge but we aren’t helping them build that knowledge into rich connected schema. This is where sentences c…
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RT @EvidenceInEdu: The Model for Great Teaching offers a curriculum for teachers’ professional learning. It provides a common professiona….
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Inspired by The Writing Revolution, here is a physics equivalent of but, because, so:
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In physics, sometimes the smallest words do the most work. This post is about three short, everyday words that powerfully link concepts together. As the voltage increases, the current through the r…
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RT @KnowledgeMatrs: 🚨 In Season 3, Ep. 1 of the Knowledge Matters Podcast, @dylanwiliam breaks it down:. “We can’t really increase the capa….
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How closely do you need to support readers' comprehension? For some readers, a lot.
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My Trust has an online reading programme which sets quizzes based on short texts. The pupils have a choice of text at the right level for them. The quiz pass rate is 8/10. We’ve analysed quiz…
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A new post - using short connected texts to enrich the content you've taught:
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New post - teaching reading comprehension strategies - classroom tips
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Sometimes when I read, the words just flow through me. The meaning doesn’t go in. Comprehension isn’t passive: it takes effort to extract the meaning. If I’m reading for a purpose, or if I’m readin…
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RT @physicstp: Modelling Electricity with Ben Rogers is live! Join Robin, Rosie and friend-of-the-Podcast-and-author @BenRogersEdu for a de….
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RT @RSC_EiC: Have we got news for you?.Yes, we have!.1. an article by @BenRogersEdu from @ParadigmTrust: .2. new li….
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RT @RSC_EiC: Read up on why @BenRogersEdu thinks literacy is so vital in all science classrooms. Then download #teachingresources for your….
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RT @RSC_EiC: Get these key skills in all your science lessons says @BenRogersEdu ..#iteachchem #SciEd #scienceteach….
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Scientific literacy is a key skill for all learners and it should feature in all our teaching, says Ben Rogers
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RT @RSC_EiC: @BenRogersEdu And you'll find lots more to help you with this in our Literacy collection, including brand-new glossaries, read….
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RT @RSC_EiC: Learners struggling with terminology in your science lessons? Read this advice from teacher, blogger and researcher @BenRogers….
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I'm not sure whether this is useful to anyone. If you are a science teacher and want to know when to use commas in complex sentences, here are two rules to help:
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Yesterday, I published a blog showing how I teach longer sentences in science (here). The sentence examples I used were: The bicycle slowed down when the person stopped pedaling because the fricti…
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How to teach precise sentences in science to develop deeper understanding. A new post
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How can we ensure students understand complex scientific ideas, beyond just recalling facts? Developing their ability to write clear, precise sentences about science is a powerful, often overlooked…
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RT @tombennett71: The debate around subject knowledge and pedagogy for teacher efficacy mirrors the debate around student subject knowledge….
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