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2022 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Award Winner AusSchoolsPlus. Primary, SoR, SoL, EAL/D, Digitech, Rural Ed. Darug Country. Non-Indigenous. Own views.
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I am teaching at a school which has implemented high quality explicit instruction K-6. My Year 2 class is on average higher than previous 3-6 classes. This is not ‘because of SES’. This is not ‘because kids are just different’. It is because they have been carefully, 1/
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A 🧵 on explicit instruction, in light of the NSW announcement.
1: I would have not only told you I was teaching explicitly in my first years of teaching, but been highly offended if you had suggested I wasn’t. Spoiler alert: I was giving one explicit instruction 1/
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John Sweller blowing my mind with his straightforward explanations of why our kids need us to TEACH them (not let them just discover it)
#SBPWH24
#SoLaRBattalion
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Today’s education myth: “all children learn differently” - really? So all the cognitive science and growing neuroscience research is wrong is it? All children have unique personalities - but the process of learning is THE SAME. Because learning is a change in long term memory.
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thoroughly, explicitly TAUGHT using sequenced materials. It is because the school has invested in years of targeted PL on cognitive load theory, and reading/writing instruction aligned to the science. It is because leadership prioritises teaching and learning, and manages 2/
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Inspired by
@tombennett71
and
@Miss_Snuffy
, I’ve started creating lessons for the first 2 weeks where I will teach Ss the habits, routines and ways of thinking to help them be successful. Turns out, teaching routines explicitly, sequentially and systematically with sufficient 1/
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Linnea sent her theory of reading words from memory to Ken Goodman, who returned it with ‘No’ on every page. So she committed to find evidence through research. And I’m so glad she did so I could be here learning from her to get better outcomes for my Ss
#LDALinneainOz
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Teaching is a verb, it’s something we have to do. Not just sit there and let students discover content for themselves with some light encouragement from the sidelines.
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@dizdarm
@PamelaSnow2
@tserry2504
teaching at my current school has shown me how stark the differences are, with real kids. So next time we hear something challenging, particularly as the wind is blowing in the direction of explicit instruction, let’s remember it’s about our kids. They need this. 10/10.
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incredible foundation. The vocabulary, grammar, fluency etc of these students is amazing. Every child deserves high quality instruction. It is a human right. Every teacher deserves to know the science, so they can teach this way. Every executive deserves guidance on how to 4/
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workload, so that we can focus on actually teaching. It is because structures have been built based on high support and high expectations for students and teachers. Is it perfect? No. No school is. But it is incredible to work with children who have had such an 3/
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Sooo…had to stay after school today for PL on reasoning through mathematical discourse and why Ss need productive struggle to learn to reason and see the structure of mathematics. I sat there the whole time thinking…”or we could just teach them?” Stark contrast after
#rEDSyd22
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or model. Had a good yarn with
@JustinCaban_
recently and he pointed out explicit instructions are NOT the same as explicit instruction - but easy to confuse! Perfect example of this is watching it in action: 2/
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On the last hour of Thursday arvo, I was left with just 6 students. I gave them the choice of reading, colouring, drawing, games, etc. They chose to do MATHS FLUENCY PRACTICE. Don’t tell me explicit instruction kills students’ love of maths 😉
#studentchoice
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Everyone today has been so phenomenally inspirational - I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve got new ideas, and I’ve been reminded why
@NSWEducation
is a
#GreatPlaceToWork
! I can’t wait to finish my degree in 2019 and become a Teacher working to ensure
#EveryStudentKnownValuedCared
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“Why would you let a child play with triangles and hope they come up with Pythagoras’ Theorem?”
@NathanielRSwain
explaining the difference between biologically primary and secondary knowledge and how we teach them
#SBPWH24
#SoLaRBattalion
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Students need to come first - start with what they need then think about how you can help teachers provide these learning experiences. Love how
@learnwithmrlee
is making this all about our kids and what they need from us!
#SBPWH24
#SoLaRBattalion
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What a glorious day 😁 So proud to have this degree 🎉
Congratulations to our first graduates from
@latrobe
#MasterofEducation
“Language and Literacy” specialisation. You are wonderful ambassadors. Look forward to your ongoing achievements ensuring that all children become proficient readers 🎓
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@dizdarm
it’s hard, let’s remember that it’s not about being told what to do. This shift will be hard. I had to do a Masters degree to learn how to teach effectively (shoutout to La Trobe,
@PamelaSnow2
and
@tserry2504
). That was hard. Changing our ideas of good practice is hard. 7/
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How does he do it?! Our first keynote
@ReadingDoctor
somehow condensing massive amounts of research on reading and spelling and making it super accessible!
#SBPRiverina
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Well, it just does not get better than this! Thank you to the
@Qantas
attendant who helped me move next to internationally renowned fluency expert
@janhasbrouck
so she could have a window and I could soak up her awesomeness on the flight home (with her permission!)
#SoRheaven
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implement effective structures of PL, support and expectations in their school. In the last few years, universities have been put on notice to teach this science to pre-service teachers. Every time that happens a range of academics say ‘but we do’. 5/
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@dizdarm
@PamelaSnow2
@tserry2504
But this is not really about us. It’s about our students, and what they need from us to be able to succeed. I’ve experienced backlash from some educators when I haven’t communicated these ideas gently enough and with enough care for their ego. But they aren’t the 8/
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No, you don’t. I have yet to meet a single educator who did a degree meeting the TEEP recommendations. Also recently,
@dizdarm
has endorsed explicit instruction in NSW public education. Teachers and leaders will need systematic support for this to happen. But every time 6/
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All set for
#SBPRiverina
tomorrow at Sturt Public School in Wagga Wagga! Phenomenal PL with Lyn Stone today, we’re ready and raring! - with
@alice_vigors
@BirthiselTarryn
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Oh my goodness it’s Dr Ben Jensen!! Curriculum King!!
#conferencegawking
#SBPBallarat
@SharingBestPrac
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Oh my god it’s
@learnwithmrlee
! He’s reminding us that we need a solid understanding of how learning happens so we aren’t seduced by the next shiny, new fad
#SoLaRBattalion
#SBPWH24
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Of course, no
#conferencegawking
would be complete without nabbing the man of the hour - still can’t believe I’ve got a whole day of learning with him!
@tombennett71
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@dizdarm
@PamelaSnow2
@tserry2504
majority. The majority of teachers want access to information and resources which will help them to do their jobs better. The majority of teachers want the best for their students. And while decades of research has shown the most effective methods, 9/
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Children’s instructional time is not ours to squander. They also can’t consent to the poorly controlled experiment of less effective reading instruction. - what a gut punch of truth from
@PamelaSnow2
@SOTLAus
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Snagged the legendary literacy leader
@DrLSHammond
too! What an utterly brilliant line up we’ve had, I am
blown away I get to be in a room with these people! Thank you
@SOTLAus
@latrobe
#SOLARLab
@EdithCowanUni
#conferencegawking
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Amazing PL
#SBPRiverina
in Wagga today,
@jdtdobson
currently mapping the NSW Syllabus into a literacy block in K-2 to show how they connect.
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#newteachertribe
#Prep4Prac
@mqeduc
@stephygsalazar
wow! Over 60 PSTs and Teachers collaborating, networking, and having fun!
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#conferencegawking
at the
@whatworksseries
Primary Maths Conference. It’s the amazing
@NathanielRSwain
(again) and the brilliant Laura Sundqvist.
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It’s awesome maths
@jdtdobson
and brilliant speechie
@kath_will5
!!!!
#conferencegawking
#SBPBallarat
@SharingBestPrac
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@NathanielRSwain
debunking the idea that the Science of Learning is just a fad. It has wide ranging policy support at multiple government levels, including
@NSWEducation
@dizdarm
#SBPWH24
#SoLaRBattalion
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It’s a trio of distinguished NSW DoE Principals! The inimitable
@manisha_gazula
@CarterM_PTL
@belinda_bristol
phenomenal leaders in NSW Public Education with children at the heart of their leadership
#proudtobepublic
#conferencegawking
@SOTLAus
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As I told a colleague today, if you’re not already reading/following
@msrebeccabirch
, you should be 😉
#conferencegawking
#SBPIllawarra2024
@SharingBestPrac
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The indomitable
@JustinCaban_
from
@training247au
is here as well, with their chants being demo’d in the breaks by
@SoLaRBattalion
leaders
#SBPWH24
#conferencegawking
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challenged them. It’s easy to say you’re doing it. It is much, much harder to actually do it, understand the research supporting it and to do so when ITE generally has not supported it (some universities are moving but it’s still dire out there).
Rant over. 14/14
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@PepsMccrea
Teach! I have started using Explicit, Direct Instruction, read lots of Science of Reading/Learning/Maths and golly did my students and I reap the benefits! It’s been an amazing journey 😊
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socioeconomic band. This brings me to my final point: educating using the most effective forms of instruction is what our students need from us. Our community have a right to demand this from us. I have yet to see a school who is truly using 10/
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1 maths guru (
@DaveMorkunas
) + 1 maths guru (
@learnwithmrlee
) = double the awesomeness! Thank you
@solarbattalion
for bringing me so much maths goodness today at
#SBPWH24
#conferencegawking
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How much are children responding? This is a big one, and one of the biggest things that shifted my view of Explicit Instruction. I remember when I thought 1 CfU every 2 mins shocked me, but now I’m aiming for at least 10 student responses every minute
@DrLSHammond
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This resonates. I’ve been asked to be less passionate. But if I’m not going to be passionate about every child being literate and numerate and using the best scientific consensus we have to inform our practice, then what’s the point of being a teacher?
#literacyisahumanright
For most of my career I had been the type do the job & keep my head down. 2 years ago when I completed my year long LETRS training that radically changed. In fact,I was recently called too extreme & intense. At first it bothered me…and then I realized that I was not the problem
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“PL should improve learning. If it’s not, we need to ask why.”
@EminaMcLean
unpacking what excellence and equity REALLY means and how high performing schools achieve this. Such a key ingredient!
#LDALinneaInOz
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Spotted another absolute legend, also one of the kindest educators I’ve met
@lifeoflottie
#conferencegawking
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@evelynaraluen
Well I’m a white person studying to be a teacher and I find your thoughts and ideas empowering. Thank you for standing up and calling out the violence of White supremacy and asking great questions. The imagery of your Acknowledgment is soul-stirring.
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@ReadWriteAnna
I’m bringing
#conferencegawking
down under
#SBPBallarat
@SharingBestPrac
starting with the inimitable
@NathanielRSwain
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Beautiful little hidden gem just off the Hume discovered while travelling back from
#sbpballarat
5hrs of driving left, several more pit stops like this I hope!
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Oh my goodness it’s
@lifelonglit
! Such a powerful wordsmith and presenter!!! Very excited to be
#conferencegawking
at
#SBPIllawarra2024
@SharingBestPrac
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Oh my god it’s Brendan Lee!
@learnwithmrlee
and the OCHRE Queen Sue Davis!!!
@SarahTrestrail
@whatworksseries
#conferencegawking
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@EmilyLandwehr9
Try
@greg_ashman
on productive struggle:
I’ve completely given up on it since his SBP Ballarat talk - full EDI in my maths lessons now, same as literacy. My Ss LOVE it, especially my strugglers. Today they ASKED for more tests 🤣
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Soooooo excited to be at ResearchEd Sydney!!!
#redsyd22
Meeting so many of my education heroes 🤩
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@JustinCaban_
Thought 3/ I am now at a school which DOES teach using explicit instruction. My Year 2 students have had 2 years of this instruction prior to coming to me. And they are academically HIGHER, almost universally, than most of the Year 5/6 students I have taught in a similar 9/
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It’s so exciting! I can’t believe that less than a year ago I went to my first Sharing Best Practice (thanks
@TVtheTeacher
) and now I’ve had the privilege of helping to organise one! Thanks
@JessicaColleu
for encouraging me and having me on the team!!!
2 more sleeps before the inaugural Sharing Best Practice Canberra & 260+ attendees are expected!
@ReadingDoctor
@annecastles
@ellis_patrick
@Brad1968
@belinda_bristol
@glenn_fahey
@danmcarr
@LiamSt01
@SharingBestPrac
@ceacg
@riseliteracy
@Smithre5
@OchreEducation
@learnwithmrlee
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@JustinCaban_
I was not doing what I now consider the hallmarks of explicit instruction:
- teaching a careful sequence of vocabulary words
- teaching carefully selected definitions of words (I would briefly explain in the moment and move on)
- repeating information and asking students to 3/
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I really, really need to do a cognitive science degree so I can directly and effectively challenge this ‘research’. This whole approach to teaching mathematics makes no sense in the context of how our brains learn.
#rEDSyd22
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Can you believe it’s
@DrLSHammond
!!! Talk about an EDI-hero, hugely grateful for her work putting this event in today 🙏
#conferencegawking
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@JustinCaban_
research on cognitive load, and none had a detailed view of explicit instruction according to Anita Archer, Ybarra & Hollingsworth, Rosenshine, etc. But they all knew better, and insisted what I was doing was wrong (despite some phenomenal student results from EI) 8/
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@tserry2504
demystifying cognitive science to make our classroom teaching easier for teachers and students. What a joy to have space to consider the practice implications from the research
#SoLaRBattalion
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@JustinCaban_
Thought 2: I have experienced active blocking of explicit instruction as a teacher. I was directed to use inquiry learning (despite results, despite research) because it makes other teachers/leaders comfortable. None of the people who directed this could articulate 7/
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@JustinCaban_
- carefully and systematically checking for understanding (in fact, I wasn’t sure what exactly I was supposed to do once students started if they were stuck)
- directing students’ attention (I misunderstood and thought I had to engage them)
- stopping regularly for students to 4/
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work. I wonder how much hard mental work I was asking Ss to do in figuring out how they supposed to behave in the classroom before, and how much that took their mental effort away from the learning? I can only go forward though. 6/6
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Also spotted!
@kezza12031
the PHENOMENAL human who did so much legwork pulling together this conference with the
#SoLaRBattalion
team
#SBPWH24
#conferencegawking
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@joboaler
have read your books, worked hard, + a great uni prof: now averaging 99% in university maths course! TY for my maths mindset! 2/2
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@latrobe
@SharingBestPrac
@researchEdhome
@ThinkForwardEdu
So when people say the ITE report doesn’t address attrition and workload, I disagree. My workload is significantly higher- and has been for some time- while I teach myself and do another degree to learn what my ITE didn’t teach me: how to be an effective teacher 5/
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Might’ve been the end of the day but I still managed to squeeze in my last few
#conferencegawking
@NathanielRSwain
@BrunoReddyMaths
#SBPWH24
#SoLaRBattalion
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@greg_ashman
I did a pure maths subject, which made me confident to teach maths. The lecturer taught using EDI (though I didn’t recognise it at the time), which meant I excelled. It was taught from the maths faculty rather than the education faculty.
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Look it’s
@belinda_bristol
, Principal of Windsor South PS and with
@CarterM_PTL
, leader of the
#SoLaRBattalion
#SBPWH24
#conferencegawking
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I’ve settled on 5 routines for Day 1:
- Lining up (2 lines, alphabetical order, silent, straight)
- Entering the classroom (silent, stand at your seat, SLANT)
- Paying attention (SLANT: Sit up straight, Listen, No interruptions, Track the teacher)
4/
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@themetresgained
Yes! I absolutely found this. I often say that seeing
@JustinCaban_
in action from
@training247au
after months in the La Trobe MEd with
@PamelaSnow2
and
@tserry2504
was what flipped the switch for me: I needed the knowledge AND the example.
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Can’t hide from me
@JustinCaban_
Love
@training247au
and how they support schools to implement Explicit Instruction
#conferencegawking
#SBPIllawarra2024
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Oh my goodness it’s one of the incredible
#SBPIllawarra2024
organisers
@CBreasley
! Stunning job team, brilliant day!
#conferencegawking
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@JustinCaban_
- maintaining a perky pace: I thought I had to slow down for students who didn’t understand, instead of embedding multiple opportunities for practice via pace and routines
- using varied feedback to address individual and whole class misconceptions
…and many more 6/
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It’s the
@ThinkForwardEdu
boss lady Katie Roberts-Hull with Sue Davis!
@whatworksseries
#conferencegawking
@whatworksseries
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Wow, what a
#conferencegawking
group!
@tserry2504
@msrebeccabirch
@ehanford
all in one spot! It’s like a literacy hall of fame!
@SOTLAus
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@latrobe
@SharingBestPrac
@researchEdhome
@ThinkForwardEdu
Yes, it’s only one lever. Yes, teachers deserve to be paid and respected as professionals. This starts with our training though. While I love learning, it would be nice sometimes to just be able to do my job, and not have to massively re-educate myself to make up for my ITE. End
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Okay edutweeps, time to admit I need help. Who has an efficient and effective marking policy for the primary years and some evidence to support it? Thinking about what I’ll do in 2023 and I want to be efficient and effective…help please!
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I’m also in the same space today at
#SBPWH24
as
@NuellaMia
from
@EdResearchAU
who is clearly having a fantastic time!
#conferencegawking
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@BelindaTeaches
Explicit instruction leaves nothing to chance, and gives all Ss the opportunity to succeed, not just the ones with the cultural capital or parents willing/able to pay for private tutoring. Inquiry is for when 100% of Ss have reached mastery (80% of the content independently).
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Today’s the day!
#SBPCanberra
@JessicaColleu
@learnwithmrlee
@CarterM_PTL
@belinda_bristol
@SarahTrestrail
@Smithre5
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explicit instruction is up in arms about the announcements in the NSW DoE and media. I felt relieved that I won’t be blocked, attacked, told off for wanting to teach explicitly (again). Now I’m worried that with the vagueness of the term, and without adequate PL 11/
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@johnqgoh
This makes me so sad. We ALL work so hard!!! I just cannot get on board with the idea that some teachers are “worth more” than others. We ALL show up every day doing all we can to make a positive difference in the lives of the young people and communities we serve. We’re a team.
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‘We invented schools for large numbers of society to learn things they will not otherwise learn’ - John Sweller talking about biologically primary and secondary information
#rEDSyd22
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be a student in my class last year. I’m trying to stick to core principles that 1) they won’t get into trouble for something I haven’t taught them, 2) we overlearn to build habits 3) we don’t waste learning time. Even thinking these through was hard. So what’s made the cut? 3/
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@JustinCaban_
(cont.) think and speak, instead I would do this using inquiry and was lucky to check for understanding every 10 mins - and only for students with hands up
- embedding routines which allowed for short, sharp, focussed participation (turn and talks, my turn/your turn, SLANT) 5/
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That many are just insisting they have always taught explicitly, just as I did when I first came out of a uni and system which had told me this was the best way and given me a distaste for ‘traditional’ instruction. In fact, I’m reminded of the colleague who insisted 12/
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Woohoo!!!
@RexAirlines
fit me in on their 7am to Melbourne! I’m going to make it! Can’t believe it’s not even 5:30 and I’ve had time for a mini-drama lol
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I like this thread. As the teacher, I’m the adult, and by setting rules and ensuring adherence, I’m keeping children safe, happy and learning. Also like the comment on how we don’t get asked to consult on road rules
#betheadult
I get a lot of people suggesting we should 'co-create' the classroom rules with the students. But why? It makes no sI understand why they think it sounds good- the 'students buy in to the rules' which leads to greater ownership. But I don't think this is sensible, or demonstrable
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They were teaching explicitly (no choral response, no CfU, no retrieval etc but they were definitely doing it), who insisted they knew better. Despite my students gaining 90% and theirs gaining 0% in the data. Yet they stood over me and tore strips off me when I 13/
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#conferencegawking
in Perth, WA! With the phenomenal Stephanie Le Lievre from
@SerpentinePS
about to listen to
@janhasbrouck
🤩
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