Catherine Kimmorley
@CKimmorley
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Teacher, learner , passionate educator, wife and mother and most recently Education Officer:
Toowoomba , Queensland
Joined July 2012
Watch for 3️⃣ routines that will help your students develop their metacognitive skills! For more, check out my blog series on #ThinkingRoutines, starting with Part I: The Power of See, Think, Wonder 👉🏻 https://t.co/aU9EkQUomg
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Mindblowingly advanced thinking on attention & learning from @mikehobbiss
https://t.co/0GLpYV4Q71 Someone knight this guy asap
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A colleague and I had this exact discussion this week. Now we have even more clarity! Thank you @SarahCorr
Talking about *mental models*? Make sure you know what you mean. It’s a popular term often used loosely. They aren’t just bits of knowledge. They’re situation-sensitive tools for thinking. This post took 2yrs to write! ☕️Grab a coffee and have a read
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Couldn’t agree more Emma. I am seeing students in Australia sitting in front of a PowerPoint, lesson after lesson or using the same routine day after day after day. Routine is key but we must also remember our brain likes variety.
Teaching without Powerpoint or IWBs - my latest blog - "Reclaiming analogue teaching" https://t.co/7AftiZKI9t
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Thanks for reposting Chris. A great explanation of the elements of reading comprehension. Love your new book by the way.
Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. The Reading Map - A Primer https://t.co/WSb7l7nV5l via @YouTube
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You may know Blake from his slick blog, but his southern drawl is even smoother. Like butter! https://t.co/yfv0FZZ7NV
educationrickshaw.com
In this episode, I chat with Blake Harvard, aka The Effortful Educator, about applying cognitive psychology to the classroom. Blake and I presented together as part of the cognitive science strand …
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If you want to do the "creative" stuff, you have to become really good at the "boring" stuff. Repetition is one of the ways we become really good at things, and if you aren't willing to embrace that, how far can you go in your own learning? That being said, when we see the
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A concise and insightful exposition on retrieval practice—a must-read to prevent it from becoming ineffective and ad hoc.
*NEW* Making Retrieval Practice Actually Work: Seven Essential Principles for Teachers to Know - link below ⬇️
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If you're curious to know more about the role of knowledge in learning and curriculum, download this free e-book, a collaborative effort by an international team of eight experts. https://t.co/tnHeEROWy8
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Just had a listen. I especially enjoyed the exploration of the difference between universal and diagnostic assessment and the role of progress monitoring.
If you missed episode 193 here it is, if you listened to it earlier this year, it’s definitely worth listening to again! Systems to get better reading results, with Stephanie Stollar. @sstollar6 @literacypodcast
https://t.co/xicyB6r8nJ
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Discover the purpose of practice! ✏️ @DFISHERSDSU and @NancyFrey review the types of practice and how practice impacts student learning. https://t.co/kNguVMjENY
#MasteryChat #students
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Love these !!
🚀 We’ve just launched 5 new practice guides that support our Model of Learning and Teaching: • Scaffold practice • Revisit and review • Vary practice • Organise knowledge • Extend and challenge Find out more: https://t.co/WvKImNlvpW
#EducationResearch #AERO
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Question : How does the research on reading suggest we test reading comprehension? What should I read in relation to this? @PamelaSnow2 @DrLSHammond @NathanielRSwain @buckingham_j
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This is why I think possibly the most important thing a teacher should get good at is checking for understanding. Regular, accurate and formative.
@jonnyjohnno @greg_ashman The best formative assessment processes often leave no written evidence; just a smarter decision by the teacher about what to do next...
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How learning happens in seven general principles ⬇️ 1. Working Memory Capacity is Limited: Our working memory, responsible for holding and processing information in real-time, has a limited capacity. This limitation means that when learners are exposed to large amounts of new
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Seeing others succeed and knowing we played a part in their journey is why many of us entered the teaching profession. In their latest blog @DFisherSDSU and Nancy celebrate the power of effective teaching and share what works for students & teachers. https://t.co/jMariaQu1n
corwin-connect.com
There are many ways new teachers can enhance classroom experiences to create a dynamic learning environment for their students.
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