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In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley29/10/20162 Comments

We know the problem with teacher workload is nothing new. It is the regular complaint of teachers across the nation. And yet the mountain of paperwork never appears to shrink! Most often, …

Tom Sherrington@teacherhead·

Engineering Success. A positive alternative to generic mindset messaging https://teacherhead.com/2019/06/01/engineering-success-a-positive-alternative-to-generic-mindset-messaging/

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

There is consistent evidence now of the crucial role of turn-taking and early vocabulary development. Rich early language is so crucial.

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Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham·

New meta-analysis on parental speech & child language (aka 30 million word gap) concludes that complexity (syntactic variety & vocab diversity) is a better predictor than word volume ($) https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13508?campaign=wolearlyview

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