Showing posts with label teacher development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teacher development. Show all posts

Saturday 2 October 2021

Thoughtful Questioning: Why Cold Call Is Not Enough

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https://www.aidansevers.com/post/thoughtful-questioning-why-cold-call-is-not-enough

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Tuesday 8 September 2020

Questions To Guide Teacher Reflection



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Tuesday 3 April 2018

From The @TES Blog: Teacher Development: The Balance Bike Approach

So far, I’ve successfully taught two of my three daughters to ride a two-wheeled pedal bike. While I learned to cycle the traditional way, by using stabilisers and then ditching them once I was a bit more confident, I've eschewed that for my own children and instead followed the current trend for balance bikes.

It really does work, reducing the complexity of the learning process. And it made me think: when we develop teachers’ skills, either during initial training or as part of ongoing professional development, should we use a balance bike approach, or should we bolt on stabilisers?

Allow me to flesh out the analogy...

Click here to read the whole article: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/how-a-balance-bike-approach-training-will-give-us-better-teachers