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My son’s first day at high school he came home buzzing. He’s learned that Democritus ‘invented atoms’ - by just thinking about sand and water. He imagined water was made of ‘atoms’. Blew his mind. Later studied philosophy at uni. He may have practised ‘lining up’ too but that wouldn’t have lit any fires!
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30 years old now, but Mike Askew and I did a review of research on Mathematics Education 5-16 and one of the topics we discussed was the use of non-examples (pp. 14-15), which appear to be more important in mathematics than other subjects: bit.ly/2xx4Zm0 (pdf)
Tom Carson retweeted
Reading @teacherhead take on Rosenshine with the original was powerful. The question isn’t “Am I doing these?”—we all are. It’s “How well?” Every teacher, myself included, can do better. One principle at a time.
Here’s my principle threads.🧵Which one do you want to focus on?👇
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I'm back to the blogging. Here's my recent output.
Five Ways: Tackling Common Learning Barriers.
Five Ways: Focus on Teams and Team Leaders to Drive Improvement.
Precision. Because hopeful vagueness isn’t (good) enough.
Links below...
Tom Carson retweeted
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that "the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing". Probably the first time a sitting president used the 3rd derivative to increase the chances of reelection.
Tom Carson retweeted
Our son, in year 7, has complained about not doing much art in art lessons, with focus on learning about artists/”doing quizzes”. Said similar in primary. I wonder if this is a legacy of M Gove’s drive to make all subjects more “academic”.Continue to have questions about this...
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I had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so I decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness. Kindness is about caring enough to push people toward greatness, even when it’s uncomfortable. It’s a harder path but better in the long run:
learningandleadershipconsult…. By @emb928
Graphic: @thejustinmecham via @dangrimes1980
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One can't predict human behaviour because humans are creative.
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