Exclusions/suspensions (short term) at your school

In general, are ALL staff informed of students that have been excluded e.g for one day?

Do all staff need to know?

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Teachers: this gives you *nothing* you can use on Monday morning & you'll love it.

Teacher educators: let's train teachers about learning so they can make better decisions about how/how not to teach.

overpractised.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/no-…

Perhaps it is even easier to see the reality when you are living outside of it.

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Full wokerati breakfast.

This is well worth listening to:

Today I learned about this elaborate eulogy carved into stone of a 1st c Roman husband for his wife (identity uncertain, traditionally referred to as 'Turia')
It's the longest personal document of this kind. He loved her a lot, they were married for 40 years.
Highlights: 1/

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How can we use accountability to encourage teachers to adopt a new technique?

Well accountability can flow in 2 directions and often we only use one.

Find out more in this blog adam-robbins.com/2024/04/29/bid…

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The deaths of our family members in the Holocaust echoes & ripples through the decades & generations.

Remembering Anikó who was 13 years old when she was murdered for being Jewish.

#YomHaShoa

You've heard of the 'jigsaw' method, where students learn a small piece and explain it to each other.

SOUNDS GREAT!

Should teachers use it?

Our blogger looks at the research picture:

ow.ly/CsYf50RiFsm

Yr 9: Food production
Yr 9: Climate change
Yr 9: Existential crisis

‘We are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers’: Peter Singer on climate change theconversation.com/we-are-gamblin… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

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Sarah Cottinghatt SUMMARY

• Meaningful learning is largely about making connections.
• One way to achieve this is by sequencing ideas from general to specific.
• This can help students to anchor and better organise their understanding.

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And of course, the Sarah Cottinghatt's ace book on the subject ⤵️

amazon.co.uk/dp/1398341436

🎓 For more, check out this paper exploring the nuances of prior knowledge and cognitive load ⤵️

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj…

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Now, there is also some evidence that an understanding of the general can be effectively achieved through multiple (and varied) specific examples...

but there is no reason why both approaches can’t be used in combination.

(I think)

Sequencing ideas from more general to specific can help build meaningful learning.

Here's how:

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(bonus points for identifying the diagram)