Five high quality takeaways for you this week.

Takeaway 1 is an inspired post by Michael Pershan on streaming. This is a sensitive and insightful post on this contentious topic, including personal reflections, a look at the research literature, and suggestions of how to do it well if you’re going to do it at all. This is key reading for anyone in a school or context in which streaming occurs or is being considered.

Takeaway 2 is a fantastic template that helps students to consider not just the correct answer of a multiple choice question, but to elaborate upon the incorrect answers to maximise learning.

T3 is another sensitive piece, this time from @ieshasmall. Important reading for anyone teaching in an area that’s of lower socio-economic status than where they themselves grew up.

T4 continues the discussion on effect sizes. Worth reading in conjunction with a listen to the Education Research Reading Room Podcast episode with Adrian Simpson.

T5 is a nice story of positive teacher impact.

Enjoy : )
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What does the research say about tracking (aka: streaming/setting) students? vis @mpershan

Original tweet thread here. Edit: Tread critiquing this article here. 

This is an excellent post by @mpershan about the research on tracking (aka: streaming/setting). He starts off with a discussion of his current and past school context in relation to the topic: (problemproblems.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/sta…)

Moves on to talk about the debate in the literature

And also explores why tracking isn't ‘the clearest slam dunk on the educational menu' (for those tracked to top sets that is). No spoilers here, you gotta read the full article. It's well worth it!

He even features a catch-22 (thoughtful thoughts on what could/should be covered in top sets, and implications for students' ability to change tracks). If I ever have to structure a maths program, and decide to track or not, I'll definitely be re-reading this post! Thx @mpershan

Ps., The @RobertSlavin-founded program, Success for All (mentioned in the post), is/was apparently pretty effective. This is from pg. 173 of Barbra Kelly's ‘Handbook of Implementation Science for Psychology in Education'

Making the most of multiple choice questions, a template. Via @effortfuleduktr

What middle class teachers should know about their working class pupils in poverty, via @ieshasmall

Why finding an effect size >1 is about as likely as finding a 10 foot man, via @RobertSlavin

An inspiring story of teacher impact

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