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About the report In March 2023, the Education Support Commission was also able to negotiate an anonymised recruitment and retention dataset of a leading national Multi-Academy Trust (MAT).Public First then carried out a series of interviews, focus groups and roundtable …
Controversial I know. Here is a copy of this morning’s @ReDBerks presentation. As ever, great to make connections and visit some fantastic presentations / presenters – thanks to @Mr_AlmondED (comprehension is not a skill) and @mikehobbis (attention). Adesope, O. O., …
Why should we be interested in a new research paper from the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning? Here are five reasons. Spaced Retrieval Practice and Edtech Kang et al., (2023) are quick to summarise a wealth of research demonstrating …
Whenever I need help with a tricky ‘Science of Reading’ query, Chris Such rarely fails to respond with multiple possible responses. And rightly so, the Science of Reading is a complex and interwoven topic. His book, sadly, is mistitled – …
Research papers investigating “retrieval practice” continue to be published rather regularly. Fortuntely, at a pace that I can almost keep up to date with. This paper by Zheng et al., (2023) caught my attention as you rarely read papers which …
Attention is the bottleneck of learning. Nothing sticks (information) without first being attended to. ✅ What is attended to – depends on what is perceived. ✅ What is perceived, is heavily influenced by prior knowledge. ✅ I have an open …
Jon Owen comes to feed my curiosity about Engelmann’s Direct Instruction. This time a sign post to Shepard Barbash’s (2012) ‘CLEAR TEACHING:With Direct Instruction, Siegfried Engelmann Discovered a Better Way of Teaching.’ My first reference to DI was back in …
Accepting the brevity of this post, more than a month ago I made a note of a Twitter conversation on addressing behaviour in school as a reminder. We are a “positive behaviour model” school. That is, as staff, we do …
