A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
As my Aspire Change EDU consultant team and I visit classrooms on a routine basis, we strive to lead administrators, coaches, and teachers in reflecting on their practice using questioning techniques. The majority of these often revolve around engagement, and it is quickly realized that when students are compliant, it is because the adult is doing all the work or talking.
The Effortful Educator
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Over a century of research and practical usage by teachers in the classroom speak to the positive benefits of retrieval practice on retention of information. (1) When learners put forth quality effort at recognition or recall of material, this often leads to an improved understanding of and ability to use content. But, it can sometimes be difficult to motivate students to invest in the more cognitively demanding efforts of retrieval practice instead of the ever-popular, yet less effective, metho
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
It breaks my heart when the costs of college-level textbooks are labeled as “junk fees.” Or, when people complain that today’s textbooks are “ overstuffed, chopped-up monstrosities ” that are boring and do little to advance student learning. Yet all this angst over textbooks misses these crucial facts: Textbooks provide a carefully curated body of knowledge.
Geography Teacher Sharing
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Love the Geography symposium as the fraternity came together to share good practices which allow students to see the world through the geographical lens, developing observation skills, analysing trends, and understanding world issues. So honoured to hear from the Keynote speaker, Mrs Margaret Roberts, author of Geography through enquiry. Last attended her workshop on geographical inquiry in 2010.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
After a busy couple of days, Hywel Roberts brought us back together again with a few more stories and questions. We got the bus back to the city centre and it was out for the Conference dinner which was provided for those who had presented. Some typical German fare of schnitzels and sauerkraut. We then had a wander and the city was busy. Down to the Haxenhaus, where we had visited previously in 2018.
Life and Landscapes
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Mention the words “Fort Knox” to most Americans and the reaction likely will be an army base, a fortress where the U.S. of A. keeps its gold reserves or the place the villain Goldfinger tried to rob in the James Bond 1964 movie “Goldfinger.” Kentucky author Ronald R. Van Stockum Jr. uses Fort Knox as the focal point in his new, expansive book about the history of an area that contains part of Kentucky and Southern Indiana.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Go here for more details on an IoE seminar that is taking place in December. Organised by Alex Standish. I was asked to go along and speak but I can't make it. However, you can hear some GA speakers and also Catherine Souch from the RGS.
Cult of Pedagogy
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Listen to the interview with Peter Johnston ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and The Gilder Lehrman Institute This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?
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