What does excellent teaching look like?

Building Sinking Classooms: Looking for a way to engage kids and avoid actually teaching mathematics? Peter Liljedahl's #BuildingThinkingClassrooms fills the bill! Ty @MrDanielBuck @educationgadfly for ringing the alam bell #mathed #bcmath #cdned https://t.co/GCKITLdLYc

Speaking and listening are a key part of learning and good schools do this well. However, if you’ve started calling this ‘oracy,’ you might be in the grip of the latest education fad. How do you know if you’re going fad oracy? Here are some signs: 1. All of a sudden, it is the

@tombennett71 Watching this masterful keynote in parcels is better than not watching it at all! A thread with almost all of @C_Hendrick’s speech, minus the beginning:

Yes, no kid should be seen roaming around a school more than once; after that, they get removed to a supervised space. No student gets to swear at a teacher more than once; after that they get suspended or sanctioned, and go through a reintegration process to reteach the

It is often assumed that the rate at which we forget things depends on how well we learned them. By varying how many times the material was presented, in four experiments, "the rate of forgetting proved to be independent of initial acquisition"

1/3 Yesterday the San Francisco school district made a presentation on Algebra in 8th grade. The slide deck is here. It is worth 10 min of your time if you have even the slightest passing interest in math education https://t.co/apVLqwLsDe

I am a grade 8 teacher and this has been my most successful year ever for teaching math. Here are some things that I think helped: -I taught mostly explicitly -I let the kids work at their own pace -I stopped using manipulatives and games -I did 40 minutes of procedural math

School Examinations: Are Exams the best way to assess student achievement? A refreshing & persuasive look at exams in relation to alternative forms of student assessment. You guessed it - exams are more rigorous, fairer, less susceptible to bias

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started teaching, was focusing too much on engagement. My goal was not to teach curriculum, but to entertain kids. Now my instruction focuses on curricular goals and I do my best to make that engaging. But learning is my primary

Learning Styles Are More Toxic Than We Thought Thinking that a student has a particular learning style influences thinking about their academic potential and their abilities. https://t.co/fRebtkGjFR

1/2 Would you agree to cancer therapy for yourself or a family member that was based on a correlational, poorly designed study with no control group? "That's what we do in education sometimes, even though the outcomes are so vital" Check out my latest episode with Ben Solomon

"Massachusetts began temporarily letting anyone with a bachelor’s degree teach..their students saw about the same rate of growth in math & reading as children taught by regularly licensed educators" https://t.co/vc35kccMT0

‘1 in 4 parents now think it’s fine for children to skip school’ is something you hope to never read. Lockdown broke the habit of attendance for many- lots of institutions have seen numbers decrease because of it, like churches. Schools need to work hard to get them back. But

De-Implementation in Education: Why is it so difficult to abandon ineffective initiatives and to do fewer things, better? It all comes down to the relative absence of program assessment & accountability in systems #edreform #cdned #workloadreduction

Summary of the most recent studies on growth mindset by @sbkaufman. Cliff Notes version: "the latest evidence clearly shows that simply holding a growth mindset isn’t as impactful as it has been made out to be, and that context matters a lot." https://t.co/aOXEJMfD3P

Our rebuttal to De Jong et al.'s article criticising our original article on the evidence crisis in science education is now open access online and can be found here:

Victor Brar from the UVIC stated in a recent article the “Jurisdictions that have adopted a proficiency assessment: NZ, Singapore, Japan, NY, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Illinois, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon and New Brunswick. How accurate is this statement?

Here's my CBC interview. Thanks @karenpaulscbc!

Ontario Court of Appeal overturns divisional court's ruling that requiring teachers to pass a basic math test was discriminatory and unconsitutional. https://t.co/Y7LoF3WWef