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An incredible way to complete our amazing #rEDEastAnglia speaker line‑up! 🛬 @olicav.bsky.social joins us as keynote, inviting us to examine the thinking behind our daily practice. Join us for what will be an unmissable day! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #EduSky @academytrust.bsky.social

#UKEd #EduSky Intro to Rethinking Cognitive Load Theory. Despite Sweller explaining the Transient Info Effect to be primary (Fröyd's Toolbox Episode 56), I notice its significance is still missing. Merlin Donald's evolutionary theory would rectify this blind spot.

This looks juicy and will, I'm sure, offer the more nuanced, finely-observed side of cognitive science, beyond the merely behavioural instantiation (that is temptingly simple to understand and convert into evaluation checklists).

Here's our a very condensed version! Situation: whole school alignment - gotta catch those lethal mutations! Theory: Rosenshine's Principles (+ others) Actions: Consistent use of The WalkThrus and codification Results: Significant improvement in consistency from Pre-school-Y6

The current use of the term "to land" is a poor way of capturing communication, as it stems from the notion that it's a one-way stream. One doesn't just lob a sentence or two 'over there' and hope it 'lands'. That is performance, not communication.

#UKEd #EduSky Feedback: not one and done.

#UKEd #EduSky Coaching develops — as in team coaching. Business was there more than a decade ago (see J Britton's From One to Many: Best Practices for Team & Group Coaching). Make it less personal but more personally beneficial as common problems & new solutions emerge from the team.

#UKEd #EduSky Look what I found: my highlighted sentence from Jerome Bruner's 1971 Towards. Theory of Instruction. Tell me this isn't a germinal notion of cognitive load.

#UKEd #EduSky According to CLT's redundancy effect ("multiple sources of info can be understood separately"), the RHS diagram is not needed; causes overload in fact. But some learners need both. Larkin & Simon (1987) concluded that diagrams often are more computationally efficient. Use both.

#UKEd #EduSky Feedback: not one and done.

For all those teachers and speakers who use slides (all, thus, except John Sweller😂) I give you the 'Oli-Filter' . Please use it! @olicav.bsky.social

#UKEd #EduSky Attempt | run through the 5 steps Develop | add details in relation to your context Adapt | tweak to personalise the technique Practise | try, evaluate, adjust as you go Test | measure the impact, gain insights.

#UKEd #EduSky Coaches help identify real classroom challenges by offering an additional perspective: observing where students are struggling, offering practical tools for visits, data and videos to build insight, test hunches and explore learning problems.

No, movement doesn't replace thinking. But it can hold information at no cognitive cost and to the benefit of retrieval.

#UkEd #EduSky Modelling strategies (representation), breaking them down into chunks (decomposition) and adapting them (approximation) to suit different contexts is how expertise in teaching happens. Let @walkthrus.bsky.social RUs do a lot of this work.

#UKEd #EduSky Our thinking and actions stem from what we see happening in the classroom. But what if we aren’t seeing clearly? This is where coaches offer an indispensable additional perspective.

Really pleased that the Spanish version of 'How Learning Happens' is finally coming out. @paulkirschner.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social @akaleditor.bsky.social akal.com/libro/como-s...

#UKEd #EduSky A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.

#UKEd #EduSky A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.

#UKEd #EduSky I thought you might find this collection of quotes from the CLT stable interesting.

#UKEd #EduSky In the Coaching WalkThrus book, @MattTeachCoach clarifies — really well — the nature & central role of mental models in developing the cognitive aspect of teaching.

#EduSky #UKEd Given that Richard Mayer asserts that we learn best with a combination of words and images, it's essential that we consider of the quality of execution. And none better to remind us than Clark & Lyons (in their 500+ page ultimate research compendium).

#UKEd #EduSky I'd say this is THE blog of the year. When real replication comes in education, hubris often follows. So, of course, strive to be evidence-informed but, please, a little less confidence & pride when describing one's practice. Bravo to @C_Hendrick.

#UKEd #EduSky We’re all humans, engaged in learning. Successful coaching is as dependent on a common model of learning as successful teaching. It helps illuminate struggles and offers insights to unblock habit change and confusion.

#UKEd #EduSky Coaching is difficult without a shared understanding of pedagogical techniques that solve learning problems. WalkThrus creates a common language to improve feedback and reduce miscommunication.

The weekend's robbery at le Louvre promoted me to reread Edgar P Jacob's (a former colleague of Hergé) wonderful The Affair of the Necklace.

#UKEd #EduSky When lesson observations, co-constructed feedback and action planning, are all referenced to a common model of learning, teacher learning really shifts. Harness this power of alignment with WalkThrus.

#UKEd #EduSky Hit the EEF’s 14 mechanisms, in four areas, by integrating coaching with other PD activities. WalkThrus offer the common language and understanding to align activities.

#UKEd #EduSky SEND: it depends what you mean by student-centred. My interpretation of pupils in special settings is that material-to-be-learned is DAFT: disconnected, abstract, fast & transient. Offering pedagogical solutions that aren't designed to address this is itself a bit daft.

#UKEd #EduSky This may not be what SLT want to hear.

#UKEd #EduSky If as @DanWillingham explained in @teacherhead & @Emma_Turner75's Mind The Gap podcast last week, causal thinking is at the heart of effective teaching, learn more at my The Professional Mind presentation in Edinburgh.

#UKEd #EduSky Matching problem to capability.

#UKEd #EduSky Beware the misuse of the term 'alignment', used to disguise rigid, consistent, high-fidelity uniformity, directed by decades-outdated Command-and-Control management systems.

I’ve been devouring Coaching Walkthrus this week. This part on learning walks is particularly relevant- the framing of the observation is everything! @olicav.bsky.social @teacherhead.bsky.social Matt Stone

“Hold hypotheses lightly” Love this page from @scottinghatt.bsky.social @ @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social in Coaching Walkthrus. (And you both look like absolute rockstars in the @olicav.bsky.social graphics)

#UKEd #EduSku A sobering thought.

#UKEd #EduSky Teachers spend 98% of their time in classrooms with no one watching, so hit the coaching sweet spot with WalkThrus and make that 2% really count.

#UKEd #EduSky Normal learning.

#UKEd #EduSky So, more is not better. Better is better.

#UKEd #EduSky Each stage of our coaching model is a full chapter of the Coaching WalkThrus book, chock-a-block with techniques to enrich your coaching project.

#EduSky #UKEd Must simplify.

#UKEd #EduSky Carl Bereiter & Marlene Scardamalia, giving you an unwanted but wise insight.

#UKEd #EduSky The Coaching WalkThrus book is structured around our coaching model, with all its feedback loops.

#EduSky #UKEd Do you have, and are you using, our Coaching WalkThrus book yet? Teachers love WALKTHRUs

#EduSky #UKEd Dave Gray is so great. I get his emails (of this type) every week, and each one gets me thinking and re-evaluating what I consider to be true and useful. His Visual Frameworks (100+) are brilliant. Take a look: visualframeworks.com