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💡'Rosenshine on knowledge structures'

"What is striking is how active the requirement is for explanation & argument. It poses a challenge to notions that developing knowledge is the mere stacking of information in quiz after quiz, or... somehow passive."

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Rosenshine on Knowledge Structures
Barak Rosenshine is most famous for his principles of instruction, but what did he have to say about building knowledge?  In his writing on ‘Advances in research on instruction’, he put forward the i...
alexquigley.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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To make teacher appraisals more effective we need to move away from ‘a model that seems to be trying to catch teachers out rather than lift them up’, write Gareth Conyard and Kathryn Morgan of @teacherdevtrust.bsky.social
Why it's time to scrap punitive teacher appraisals
As the sector moves on from performance-related pay, schools need performance management systems that focus more on meaningful professional growth than on compliance and control
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May 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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"What matters in an assessment is not the end product; it’s what the end product tells you about the process"

Superbly put by @daisychristo.bsky.social. Yes, AI is changing the workplace, but that's no reason to ignore its detrimental impact on pupils' learning.

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Francis review: What to do about assessment in the age of AI
We can no longer ignore AI's impact on the assessment landscape - but it doesn't mean what many think it does
schoolsweek.co.uk
May 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Hello! I'm giving away 20 (20!) signed paperbacks of this book to the first people to reply to this post. Stephen Fry called it "enchanting" and "hilarious" but some people hate it & that's all cool & what happens with books. Limiting this to UK (but happy to send outside if you can cover postage)..
April 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Any Geography Teachers had a look at the CAIE Humanities syllabus for Key stage 3?
April 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM