Educator. National Teaching Fellow. Author and editor. Musical Director of CSB Academy Band. Terrible trombonist.
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RISHI SUNAK HAS CALLED A GENERAL ELECTION FOR 4 JULY.
It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).
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My new blog post - "Cognitive Load Theory: An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction" - dissects another dubious effort to undermine progressive education by invoking the magic phrase "science of learning." (Warning: footnotes galore!)
alfiekohn.org/blogs/clt/
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Just Published: Introduction to Primary Teaching by @DrColinForster
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More word soup from @Ofstednews as I read this review. What does this bit even MEAN? 🤷♀️
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In 36 hours, Earth’s shadow will temporarily be cast onto our moon, creating a lunar eclipse. When the moon is completely covered, it will take on a red hue: the projection of thousands of sunsets onto the lunar surface. Here’s one of my captures from a previous eclipse. – at Arizona, USA
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Now with 2000 views: Questioning the role of questions by @DrColinForster, @JudePenny2 @BAPrimaryUSW @UoGPriScience
and @RussShalofsky: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… .
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Stories emerging that in the scuffles taking place in the lobby yesterday, slabs of tofu were flung to the floor.
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A turning point in The Telegraph? Project fear was right and ‘if anything have underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing and the scale of the damage that six years of policy confusion and ineptitude has imposed on the country.’ telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: facebook.com/DavidCameronOff…
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If committed Lib Dem Liz Truss had decided in her twenties to infiltrate the Conservative Party in order to become leader & screw it up from the inside, how exactly would she have behaved differently over the last month?
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Gove on Brexit: “I ask myself all the time 'was it the right thing to do'"
Bit late now, Michael. ft.com/content/908604ca-1b94…
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Meanwhile in Gloucester. The Tories are campaigning to improve literacy standards.
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Ranting about an imaginary ‘anti growth coalition’ is just an attempt to obscure the hard reality that the biggest brake on UK growth is Brexit - and that’s on the Tories.
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New: Pause “destructive” teacher training reforms, DfE urged, after new survey finds more than three quarters of teachers say their training was good or excellent educationuncovered.co.uk/new…
YouGov survey of >1,000 teachers finds 77 per cent viewed their teacher education as gd/xlent
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The first job of an MP is to act in the interest of their constituents & in the national interest. We cannot clap for carers one month & cut tax for millionaires months later.
Chairman Jake Berry says that any Tory MPs who vote against the budget would lose the whip #ridge
Here’s something for @UoGEducation BEd and PGCE students to mull over.
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Kwasi Kwarteng wants more people on UC to work. Most of us do, the reason we only do so many hours is we can’t afford childcare. So you could sanction me during a #CostOfLivingCrisis. My partner died and I’m trying my fucking best but you penalise me for being a single parent.