Help teachers to talk about teaching & learning
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
7M ago
How one teaches often feels like a very personal thing. I believe this is primarily due to a lack of structured teacher training across the world. Teachers normally get a year or two of training at the very beginning of their career, mostly in basic classroom management, organisation, and survival. They are then thrown into ..read more
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Hey Teachers, the Marshmallow test was wrong.
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
9M ago
I covered the disastrous impact that eugenic thinking had on high school design in my previous post. So, I was interested to see its continuing impact in the highest echelons of academia in regards to the quite famous “Marshmallow Test” and how a team more recently had proved the eugenic-style conclusions to be quite wrong ..read more
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Education needs to stop spinning in circles
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
1y ago
Talk to any teacher with 20 years experience and they will tell you that education goes around in circles with trends and fads, be it student-centred, project-based, a new technology focus, reciprocal reading etc. Why is this?  Why does education keep changing its mind on what to do next? Why does it keep returning to ..read more
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What makes an expert teacher?
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
1y ago
  “You’re just a glorified babysitter” a (non-teaching) husband ‘joked’ to his (teacher) wife. “… I went to school, I know what teachers do and I can see what you do at home in the evenings. As long as you have something to occupy the kids with tomorrow, you’re all good.” Are teachers trained to ..read more
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Does a quiet classroom quietly harm children?
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
1y ago
I think every classroom and school has a duty to this generation in particular, who spend so much time isolated on their phones and online to make it a weekly, if not daily, norm to say hello to somebody new and look to work on something together ..read more
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Why schools avoid complexity and why they shouldn’t
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
2y ago
Divide and rule Teaching for complex systems thinking by Rosemary Hipkins is a powerful look at key aspects of understanding and learning that traditionally have been missing from the experience of an average school student. One of the driving ideas in the book is the consideration that starting with ancient Greek philosophy and intellectualism and ..read more
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Schools avoid complexity and they should’t
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
2y ago
Divide and rule Teaching for complex systems thinking by Rosemary Hipkins is a powerful look at key aspects of understanding and learning that traditionally have been missing from the experience of an average school student. One of the driving ideas in the book is the consideration that starting with ancient Greek philosophy and intellectualism and ..read more
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How school reports can change a school and … have impact!
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
2y ago
4 Questions to start with: How much do school reports make a difference? If parents read school reports, how can they / do they respond? If schools are not analysing the impact reports have, is the entire reporting process a waste of time? If report writing is not popular, can we find a more useful ..read more
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13 STAR WARS EDUCATION POSTERS 2022
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
2y ago
When I did my original set of these, they proved by far my most popular contribution to the education conversation, so here’s 13 more for 2022. Hope you enjoy and they help spark some conversations in your school. Here’s a link to all 4 Star Wars Education Poster sets ..read more
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Hey teacher, don’t carry out that class test tomorrow!
Eduwells | Learning To Learn By Richard Wells
by Richard Wells
2y ago
We all understand class tests as just part of schooling. They are normal and have always been the way of the classroom. Why challenge the idea of carrying out the class test? Surely it must be the right thing to do or we would not have done them for so many decades. But like anything ..read more
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