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Educational Research and Opinion Pieces:
EduSpeak
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"Eduspeak" and the Bullshit Paradigm
The Damage of "Eduspeak"
For Fun! Edubabble Bingo!
(if you are going to an education event, generate some cards and print out for you & your friends!
The "Profession"
:
Is it a profession?
Teacher Retention
Teacher Preparation and Student Outcomes in 17 Countries
Curriculum Change
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Experimental Education and the Re-designing of Curriculum
BC Students as Guinea Pigs in the new BC Ed Plan
Educational Change and the Educational Guru Set
One of the Myths of 21st Century Learning: Jobs That Don't Exist Yet
The Case for "Traditional" Teaching
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Knowledge and Why It's Important
The Factory Model of Education
The Transition from a "Progressive" to a "Traditional" Educator
More on the Transition from "Progressive" to "Traditional" teacher
The Case Against "Student-Centred Teaching
Back to "Chalk and Talk"?
Direct Instruction Might Be Making a Comeback
What Makes Great Teaching
A Compendium of Links to Articles About Direct, Teacher-Centred, Whole-Class Instruction
Rote Memorization: What It Is and What It Isn't
More on Rote Knowledge
The Case For Fully Guided Instruction
Trust Your Instincts
Discovery Learning Is Failing Our Kids
Direct Instruction and Reading
Direct Instruction of Reading Creates Felons (albeit literate ones)?!
Continuing the Debate on Progressive vs. Traditional Alive
Direct Instruction Works
'Guide by the Side' versus 'Sage on the Stage'
Does Learning Always Have to Be Fun?
English: Why Teach Writing and Grammar
Math: Mental Math and Drill and Practice Breeds Success
Science: Do Your Kids Hate Science Yet?
Students Choosing What to Learn and How
Motivation for Learning: What's the Point?
How to Motivate Students
Critical Thinking
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100% Wrong on Critical Thinking
Final Exams and Testing
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Research: The Effect of Curriculum-Based Exit Exam Systems On Student Achievement
The Movement Away From All Testing
Class Size
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Class Size Matters
Consequences of Helicopter Parenting
Explicit Instruction:
Explicit Instruction in Art
Bloom's Taxonomy:
The Problem With The Pyramid
Failed Educational Fads:
Learning Styles
Learning Styles Are Dead
Research on How Students Learn:
A Video of Talk by John Sweller - Creator of Cognitive Load Theory
Behaviour:
Behaviour: the Elephant in the Room
A Report on Behaviour in British Schools
The Importance of Knowledge:
Knowledge is Good
More on the Importance of Knowledge
More, More, on the Importance of Knowledge
Growth Mindset:
The correlation between growth mindset and academic achievement is weak.
Blogs I Follow (or should more often)
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Paul W. Bennett: EduChatter
Colin Welch: A Vancouver Teacher
The Quirky Teacher
Kristopher Bolton
Peter Greene: Curmudgucation
Traditional Math
Teach Like a Champion
Greg Ashman - Filling the Pail
Ben Newmark
John Gustafson
Bryan Penfound - For the Love of Maths
Craig Barton - Mr Barton Maths
Blake Harvard - The Effortful Educator
The Learning Scientists
Eric Kalenze
Adam Boxer - A Chemical Orthodoxy
Traditions Knowledge and Western Science:
I
t's Taken Thousands of Years, But Western Science is Catching Up to Traditional Knowledge
How Indigenous Knowledge Advances Modern Science and Technology
Books On Traditional Education
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