Highlighters

Sep 3 201622/02/2020

10 New School Year Resolutions

The Confident Teacher / By Alex Quigley / 6 minutes of reading

School starts again on Monday for me and so it is an appropriate time to procrastinate…sorry, I mean plan for the year ahead. Now, I know that the best laid plans of mice and men are quickly waylaid when September gets into full swing, but I want to commit to making some changes to my …

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Jan 17 201522/02/2020

Why I Hate Highlighters!

The Confident Teacher / By Alex Quigley / 5 minutes of reading

As an English teacher I am surely granted the eternal power of an exaggeration fueled headline every once in a while. Ok – so perhaps highlighters aren’t the biggest problem in education, but if you know me well, you may have heard my complaint whereat these gaudy coloured pens symbolize some deep rooted issues with teaching and learning …

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Jon Severs @jon_severs ·

"If you want them to do spaced practice, you need to teach them how to plan in a way that actually makes sense to them and in a way that they will actually do it."

ICYMI @tes chats to @DTWillingham

https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/dan-willingham-interview-memory-phonics-metacognition

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley ·

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‘Adaptive Teaching & Vocabulary Instruction’

“With respect to classroom teaching, the term micro-adaptation might be defined as continually assessing and learning as one teaches—thought and action intertwined.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2023/02/adaptive-teaching-and-vocabulary-instruction/

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Kristen McQuillan @mcglynn3 ·

Wise words from @ReadingShanahan

"Kids need to learn to read challenging literature and informational texts from the different disciplines in sophisticated ways, and they need to get used to using text for building extensive stores of knowledge..."

https://shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/more-on-hanford-phonics-reform-and-literacy-levels#sthash.MjbRzNSM.dpbs

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