Science Educator
Langley, British Columbia
Joined February 2023
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Jules Pryma retweeted
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
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Jules Pryma retweeted
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 next big thing
2. Substantive content is *removed* to make way for oracy eg a history topic at primary school
3. You’re asking children to talk about trivial things eg their pets, hobbies, school uniform
4. People are banging on about oracy being a ‘skill’ and are linking it to future employment
5. You’re in the UK and oracy is linked to the impending change of government
6. School 21 / Voice 21 are mentioned
7. You find yourself scoring oracy on a rubric
Any others?
Jules Pryma retweeted
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:
.@C_Hendrick’s keynote at @researchED_US was astoundingly good.
I caught most of it on video…
Sorry that it’s in Tweetable chunks, but I promise that it’s worth the headache of pressing Play a few times.
What is learning, Carl asks?
Jules Pryma retweeted
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 expectations.
This is a complete failure of leadership. Swearing at a teacher is completely unacceptable, there are no mitigations. Any student who swears at a teacher must be placed in isolation immediately
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Jules Pryma retweeted
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" bit.ly/3TcJFty
Jules Pryma retweeted
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
go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Bo…
Jules Pryma retweeted
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 and 40 minutes of conceptual/application math each day
-I used frequent formative assessments
-I encouraged the students to work together
-I celebrated student success
-I taught two algorithms for every type of math problem
Jules Pryma retweeted
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 edsk.org/publications/examin…
Jules Pryma retweeted
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 goal not engagement.
Jules Pryma retweeted
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
Jules Pryma retweeted
"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"
the74million.org/article/eme…
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‘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 parents have a huge role here.
Jules Pryma retweeted
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 teachermagazine.com/au_en/ar…
Jules Pryma retweeted
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."
beautifulminds-newsletter.co…
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?
Jules Pryma retweeted
Ontario Court of Appeal overturns divisional court's ruling that requiring teachers to pass a basic math test was discriminatory and unconsitutional. theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads…
