Andrew Curtis
@texnomore.bsky.social
Third Culture Kid in the US. School Admin improving instruction. Cog Sci. Unfortunate speller. Right 51% of the time. Into movies and books.
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Currently in the top 10 in three different categories in Australia!
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February 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Currently in the top 10 in three different categories in Australia!
Thanks for your support!
Find out more here:
tinyurl.com/2jbxtt4v
#edusky #edchat
Thanks for your support!
Find out more here:
tinyurl.com/2jbxtt4v
#edusky #edchat
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Delighted to get my copy & honored to be included in the Testimonials. Congrats to author #BruceRobertson & publisher #JohnCatt.
#PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching
#PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Delighted to get my copy & honored to be included in the Testimonials. Congrats to author #BruceRobertson & publisher #JohnCatt.
#PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching
#PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching
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Looking for new resources to enhance your teaching practices?
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A free Resource Library for teachers including eBooks, podcasts and webinars on assessment theory.
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January 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Looking for new resources to enhance your teaching practices?
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📽️ 17 element videos relating to the Model for Great Teaching
📖 eBooks on assessment & feedback
🎙️ Podcasts with teachers & researchers
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📽️ 17 element videos relating to the Model for Great Teaching
📖 eBooks on assessment & feedback
🎙️ Podcasts with teachers & researchers
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The true beneficiaries of strong discipline in schools are the quiet majority, i.e. the students who show up to learn, who dream of a classroom free from the outbursts of their disruptive peers, and who just want a chance to thrive in peace.
January 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The true beneficiaries of strong discipline in schools are the quiet majority, i.e. the students who show up to learn, who dream of a classroom free from the outbursts of their disruptive peers, and who just want a chance to thrive in peace.
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Was I right to suggest that lessons don't need to be fun?
Well, yes. But...
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/t...
Was I right to suggest that lessons don't need to be fun?
Well, yes. But...
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/t...
The other F word
Did you know, that in parts of the world like those in east Africa’s Rift Valley, the high fluoride content in volcanic springs can soften the enamel on the teeth of those who drink it, allow…
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January 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Was I right to suggest that lessons don't need to be fun?
Well, yes. But...
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/t...
Was I right to suggest that lessons don't need to be fun?
Well, yes. But...
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/t...
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What do we mean by 'impact' and how can we check if we are having one?
Here are 5 ways of approaching the question
www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
What do we mean by 'impact' and how can we check if we are having one?
Here are 5 ways of approaching the question
www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
How to tell if your lessons are having an impact
Your classroom may be a flurry of activity but is the learning making a difference? A simple acronym can help to answer this complicated question, explains Mark Enser
www.tes.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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What do we mean by 'impact' and how can we check if we are having one?
Here are 5 ways of approaching the question
www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
What do we mean by 'impact' and how can we check if we are having one?
Here are 5 ways of approaching the question
www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
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Feeling burnt out? 🤯
Our Cognitive Load Theory workshop can help you ditch the cognitive overload & design lessons that ACTUALLY stick!
Enquire here: bit.ly/4eFlpJ3
Our Cognitive Load Theory workshop can help you ditch the cognitive overload & design lessons that ACTUALLY stick!
Enquire here: bit.ly/4eFlpJ3
January 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Feeling burnt out? 🤯
Our Cognitive Load Theory workshop can help you ditch the cognitive overload & design lessons that ACTUALLY stick!
Enquire here: bit.ly/4eFlpJ3
Our Cognitive Load Theory workshop can help you ditch the cognitive overload & design lessons that ACTUALLY stick!
Enquire here: bit.ly/4eFlpJ3
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#EduSky #UKEd
If Playbooks are like cookery books, they will have both ingredients (teaching techniques) & recipes (putting the techniques together to create something).
The WalkThru clusters (of sequenced techniques) are teachers' recipes, with a clear intention of what's being created.
If Playbooks are like cookery books, they will have both ingredients (teaching techniques) & recipes (putting the techniques together to create something).
The WalkThru clusters (of sequenced techniques) are teachers' recipes, with a clear intention of what's being created.
January 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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#UKEd #EduSky
This 36-page summary of Direct Instruction (DI) is excellent. And free, from: nifdi.org/research/jou...
Thanks Kris_Boulton
for the recommendation, in the equally excellent podcast (Progressively Incorrect) by MrZachG recently.
This 36-page summary of Direct Instruction (DI) is excellent. And free, from: nifdi.org/research/jou...
Thanks Kris_Boulton
for the recommendation, in the equally excellent podcast (Progressively Incorrect) by MrZachG recently.
January 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#UKEd #EduSky
This 36-page summary of Direct Instruction (DI) is excellent. And free, from: nifdi.org/research/jou...
Thanks Kris_Boulton
for the recommendation, in the equally excellent podcast (Progressively Incorrect) by MrZachG recently.
This 36-page summary of Direct Instruction (DI) is excellent. And free, from: nifdi.org/research/jou...
Thanks Kris_Boulton
for the recommendation, in the equally excellent podcast (Progressively Incorrect) by MrZachG recently.
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January 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Why does cognitive load theory wind some people up so much? The cognitive load theory conference offered no clue. It was full of grounded researchers, contesting experimental designs and aspects of the theory in the way we might expect. 1/9
December 4, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Why does cognitive load theory wind some people up so much? The cognitive load theory conference offered no clue. It was full of grounded researchers, contesting experimental designs and aspects of the theory in the way we might expect. 1/9
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How do emotions affect learning and cognitive load? A lot of stuff in this study that teachers will feel is obvious but a few very interesting things stand out for me ⬇️ 🧵
December 1, 2024 at 10:07 AM
How do emotions affect learning and cognitive load? A lot of stuff in this study that teachers will feel is obvious but a few very interesting things stand out for me ⬇️ 🧵
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5 Reasons My Class Begins with Retrieval Practice (Almost) Daily
theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/10/16/5...
#edusky #cogscisci
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#edusky #cogscisci
5 Reasons My Class Begins with Retrieval Practice (Almost) Daily - The Effortful Educator
For the past six or seven years I have started my class (almost) every day the same way…with retrieval practice. This is usually a quick review of information covered from the last class meeting or of...
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November 17, 2024 at 12:57 PM
5 Reasons My Class Begins with Retrieval Practice (Almost) Daily
theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/10/16/5...
#edusky #cogscisci
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Not sure who fits in this venn diagram, but I'm ready Sally Rooney’s new book, and every time I say the title in my head “Intermezzo” is sung like Sabrina Carpenter sing Esspresso.
November 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Not sure who fits in this venn diagram, but I'm ready Sally Rooney’s new book, and every time I say the title in my head “Intermezzo” is sung like Sabrina Carpenter sing Esspresso.
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For tasks requiring sustained attention, allowing workers to control when they take micro-breaks improves performance. Lots of qualifiers (e.g., simple tasks, need more research on metacognition) but aligns well w/self-regulation research.
doi.org/10.1037/xap0...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1037/xap0...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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November 27, 2024 at 2:43 PM
For tasks requiring sustained attention, allowing workers to control when they take micro-breaks improves performance. Lots of qualifiers (e.g., simple tasks, need more research on metacognition) but aligns well w/self-regulation research.
doi.org/10.1037/xap0...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1037/xap0...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
I write a weekly PD newsletter for faculty. Very excited to see how folks respond to my link to D. Thompson’s Plain English pod. Skepticism about Ed research usually comes from binary views. Here’s to nuance #edusky. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Vaccine Conspiracies, Fluoride Myths, and America’s Broken Public-Health Discourse
Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 11/22/2024 · 41m
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November 26, 2024 at 3:51 AM
I write a weekly PD newsletter for faculty. Very excited to see how folks respond to my link to D. Thompson’s Plain English pod. Skepticism about Ed research usually comes from binary views. Here’s to nuance #edusky. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Which of theses symptoms of cognitive overload do you see most often in your pupils?
Here's 3 things you can do:
✅Remove inessential info/instructions
✅Chunk complex tasks
✅Use Qs to focus pupils on the learning
For professional learning contact us enquiries@impact.wales
Here's 3 things you can do:
✅Remove inessential info/instructions
✅Chunk complex tasks
✅Use Qs to focus pupils on the learning
For professional learning contact us enquiries@impact.wales
November 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Which of theses symptoms of cognitive overload do you see most often in your pupils?
Here's 3 things you can do:
✅Remove inessential info/instructions
✅Chunk complex tasks
✅Use Qs to focus pupils on the learning
For professional learning contact us enquiries@impact.wales
Here's 3 things you can do:
✅Remove inessential info/instructions
✅Chunk complex tasks
✅Use Qs to focus pupils on the learning
For professional learning contact us enquiries@impact.wales
I use the phrase “play with the cards face-up.” Teach processes with clear examples. Then turn the cards over, but low-stakes to spot the errors. Build up fluency until there is independence.
I first heard “Guess What’s in My Head” from KB and Michaela. Just tell them, then get them to think about it. Both sides of the teaching debates agree on critical thinking - it’s just there are far more efficient ways of getting kids to do it far earlier.
www.joannejacobs.com/post/teachin...
www.joannejacobs.com/post/teachin...
Teaching shouldn't be 'guess what's in my head'
Explicit teaching works better than student-centered learning.
www.joannejacobs.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 AM
I use the phrase “play with the cards face-up.” Teach processes with clear examples. Then turn the cards over, but low-stakes to spot the errors. Build up fluency until there is independence.
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Great blog post from @daisychristo.bsky.social - clear thinking about the purposes of assessments, and what happens when you "mix" those purposes
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
Designing the perfect assessment system, part 1
What's the point of assessment?
substack.nomoremarking.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Great blog post from @daisychristo.bsky.social - clear thinking about the purposes of assessments, and what happens when you "mix" those purposes
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...