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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Strategies Over the first 3 blog posts in this series, I have tried to lay out the exigent case for disciplinary literacy and explain our contextual decision to focus of disciplinary vocabulary. Now,...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Disciplinary Literacy #3/6

In his book “Closing the Vocabulary Gap”, Alex Quigley describes a seminal moment in his understanding of the difficulties students face on a daily basis. Trailing a student from lesson to lesson thr...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

We are what we walk between

We are what we walk between In David Foster Wallace’s novel, Infinite Jest, the 70 year old Head Coach and Athletic Director of the Enfield Tennis Academy, Gerhardt Schtitt, is reminiscing about his...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Disciplinary Literacy #2/6

This is the second post of my series describing our school’s implementation journey with disciplinary vocabulary. The EEF Guidance Report on Implementation details the process by which schools and o...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Disciplinary Literacy #1/6

This is the first post in a series that will detail the journey our school, Mounts Bay Academy, is undertaking to implement some of the strategies detailed in the EEF Guidance Report on Secondary Lite...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Hide and Seek

March 16th, 1983 In a thin beam of sunlight, the insects zipped backwards and forwards. They shone like fireflies as they raced through the shaft, each one disappearing against the canopy as it left...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

The Journey

It took us about an hour, in the dark, to set up the hide. Amber and I fumbled with the poles and then the netting that stretched over the frame. Once inside we arranged our small canvas stools and ha...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

A Brief Encounter

I moved forward, out of the blackest sleep, to find myself surrounded by three of my children. I had the sense that they all shared a deep sorrow. As my eyes opened and closed slowly I could see their...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

In the right light, study becomes insight

Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Van Tuc’s son Thich Quang Duc, murderous, doomed, that cost the Diem regime countless losses, hurling himself down to the House of Death, such a sturdy soul, a great f...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Short Stories

Chapter 1 Worms “The early bird gets the worm.” Today I realised that I have not thought about worms for a long time. I have not considered the pink earthworm in many years and today I remembere...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

The best Humans we can be

I n “ T h e F o u r t h E d u c a t i o n R e v o l u t i o n : W i l l A r t i fi c i a l Intelligence liberate or infantilise humanity?” Sir Anthony Seldon says, “We have schools 180 degrees wrong....

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Critical Thinkers in the Post-Truth World

To discuss the purpose of education one must begin by defining terms. The corollary soon reached is that any such discussion is a necessarily broad church. Lacking the space here to toil in the wide o...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Education: My motivation

(This is a transcript of a speech I gave recently to staff at a school I visited) Why am I motivated to be a teacher? An educator? Why am I motivated to be a Senior Leader? To answer that I will h...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

The Conversation

Welcome to the conversation At The Conversation ( www.theconversation.education ) we believe that giving educators the space and time to talk about teaching and learning is essential. The Conver...

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@J-Rod · 2 years ago

Short Story: Have you seen her?

“Have you seen Chloe?” I ask. “I thought she’d be home from school by now.” It’s an hour since the end of school and my daughter, is not back yet. I phone a friend whose son is in Chloe’s class. “Ha...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Neuroplasticity

The most important idea in education is neuroplasticity. This is the understanding that the experiences we have and the learning we undertake changes the layout and organisation of the brain. Our brai...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Panta Rhei

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. 32 years from my 55; 38 weeks from each...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Reading as Emancipation

Karl Marx said that ideology was false consciousness. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that this is wrong; that ideology is consciousness. Through a Lacanian psychoanalytic analysis of Marx, Žižek says...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Art as Experience

I have always thought of myself as a rational materialist. As a science graduate and teacher, I have mostly concerned myself with a material world view and modes of thought that rely on the language o...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Using Python to aid Behaviour in Schools

Improving Behaviour in Schools: Know and Understand your Pupils and their Influences The EEF Guidance Report for Improving Behaviour in Schools states: “Research suggests that teachers knowing thei...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Thoughts about lockdown

When lockdown first began, the nation fell silent. The roads deserted, the occasional passing car became an intrusion into the silence of nature (which as we learnt is not silent at all). Our ears soo...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

The Art of Lockdown

Art connects us to each other, even when we are necessarily separated. It provides windows into the human experience as lived by someone else, someone who perhaps is struggling with the same burden th...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

How to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn

In 1885 Ebbinghaus published a monograph that laid the foundations for the modern psychological, clinical study of memory. Ebbinghaus showed that it was possible to dramatically improve learning by co...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Metacognition and liminality

Recently I have been teaching my Year 9 Science class about equations in Physics. A colleague, Michelle Weightman, has developed a strategy that we use in the department to help develop metacognition...

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@J-Rod · 3 years ago

Education as leisure: freedom from the spectacle

“In societies dominated by modern means of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles . Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.”(1) As a tea...

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