Flashcards with Charlie
This is a short but important post. On Wednesday I saw Charlie through the window. He was working 1-2-1 on his literacy. Charlie is in Year 4. He is a very important pupil to me. Every Friday, we meet and …
Do Now… or shall we think about it a little more?
Late on Saturday afternoon, and a Barry Smith (@BarryNSmith79) retweet, with a Sam Strickland sub tweet, passed through my timeline. As with much of Twitter, it is a passing moment, so I tentatively asked Barry if he could elaborate. And …
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Benefit of Spacing out Retrieval Practice Episodes on Retention
3948 results, processed down to 42 studies selected for screening, 29 studies fulfilled the criteria. Two key questions Spaced versus Massed Repeated Retrieval Practice Expanding versus Uniform Spacing Schedule Moderators included Setting Education Level Type of Material Design Test Type …
Sorry for my absence
This September I started a new role at Boundary Oak School, new classes, new teaching, new systems, only to be tripped up at the end of week two by Covid. RememberMore development continues and something had to give – there …
ResearchEd NC21
Prepared the session on Successive Relearning. Early train. Met old friends, made digital acquaintances 3d. Met, enjoyed a coffee with, and laughed with a self-pronounced Research Legend Paul Kirchner and Kelly Furlough. Made new connections. Met the gentlemen from #morethanajob …
Planning a scheme of work – workflow
Having drafted a five part series on curriculum planning and designing a flexible Teaching-Instruction Model (that accommodates my professional interest in Complex Adaptive Systems), I was asked if I could go through the steps I would take when designing a …
Plans, macro-cycles and spirals (part 5)
So here it is, the first final draft. A model of sequenced teaching-instruction as “teach-assess-adapt” (accepting that there is more to teaching than that). The introduction of meso-cycles, along side macro (schemes of learning) and micro cycles (lesson(s)) and the …
Plans, cycles and spirals (part 4)
The case has been made for backwards planning, assessment biased, responsive teaching. Now for Successive Relearning. Why Successive Relearning? Why RememberMore? Learning is rarely a one-shot affair. Single, isolated experiences seldom give birth to learning. What creates or shapes learning, …