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AfL should be recognized as central to classroom practice

David Dunn • How to be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher (Outstanding Teaching)

Urgently needed today is an education system which encourages curiosity (by encouraging autonomy), unity (by encouraging holistic, contextualised learning) and creativity (by not forcing monomathic specialisation upon the multitalented).

Waqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility

Oracy is yet another educational fad/distraction that doesn’t work. Focus on Oracy forces a school to organise itself around a mistaken concept, making it harder to succeed - not impossible, but harder. We do NOT do Oracy at Michaela. 1/15

Katharine Birbalsingh x.com

If I have to choose one profession in which you give the most for the least it is probably teaching – if you take it seriously. You have to have the temperament for it to coax, to stimulate, to cajole, to discipline a young mind into good habits. You must have an aptitude.

Kuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew

All great teachers teach students how to reach the high standards.

Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

Top 2% using this software built upon on standards which are supposed to be the FLOOR is a joke. I.e. first grade standard is know + and - facts to 20. They think if a kid types in these answers (no fidelity to test conditions) they “mastered” it. Also Alpha is aggressively recruiting real teachers promising $100,000 salaries but in a boiler room... See more

tetheredtoed x.com

Jillian Michaels just tore into LA Mayor Karen Bass over her handling of the fires. “Karen Bass is incompetent. I don't care if she's a woman of color, she's just flat out incompetent.” “When your fire chief writes you a letter… and says, ‘do not cut my budget it will be a catastrophe.’ YOU... See more

End Tribalism in Politics x.com

Kids are very cognitively flexible; it is school with its multiple choice tasks, regimental learning, and compartmentalization of subjects that has scorched that flexibility, that creativity, that inherent ability to see the world outside of single disciplinary boundaries … see it polymathically.

Waqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility

Students worldwide are being encouraged, often forced, to specialise too early. As a result, multitalented children are often being faced with what psychologists refer to as ‘multipotentiality’ – a condition of frustration, confusion and anxiety suffered by multitalented pupils as a result of the compulsion to specialise (that is, choose between