One highlight from the week just gone was the most recent ResearchEd Australia conference. It's been 2 years between drinks… far too long if you ask me! I share some of my (brief) takeaways in T1.

T2 is a must listen podcast and accompanies well another podcast by Emily Hanford which I shared here in TOT065.

T3 is a fantastic resource. Content rich curricula, freely downloadable! Check it!

T4 is for our friends in the northern hemisphere. A podcast detailing how 30 different teachers run their first lesson with a new class. Plenty of food for thought.

I'll let the other takeaways speak for themselves, only to point out that T10 shares some really positive news about some of the impact that the ERRR podcast is starting to have. Very exciting to think that the ERRR is causing system-level change and helping to drive evidence informed practice.

Hope you had a great week.

Enjoy : )

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Some quick takeaways from @researchED_Aus Melbourne

Thoroughly enjoyed ResearchEd last Saturday at Brighton Grammar. Two talks in particular stood out to me…

I particularly enjoyed the opening keynote from David de Carvalho, CEO of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). David spoke about a whole host of issues, but what most struck me was his clear understanding of the link between knowledge and skills. David referenced an interesting sounding book, ‘Insight'(1958) by Bernard Lonergan, a thinker of whom I hadn't heard before. Here's one of David's stimulating slides…

David deCarvalho, Oliver Lovell, Ollie Lovell, Slide

I also very much enjoyed the presentation by Lyn Stone (@lifelonglit) who gave a great overview of some of the principles of reading and writing instruction (beware any ‘strategy' which takes students' focus away from the printed words that they're trying to decode), pointed attendees to the podcast which is T2 in this week's TOT, praised  the book ‘The Writing Revolution' by Judith Hochman (I interviewed Judith about her book for the ERRR podcast, which you can listen to here), and reminded me that I should read ‘Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties' by David Kilpatrick.

Probably the highlight for me was hearing Reid Smith (@smithre5) from Ballarat Clarendon College talk about using variation to systematically identify weak points in instruction, share best practice, and improve curriculum materials for next year (feedback vs. feed-forward). Reid shared a well structured and well thought out process that made a lot of sense.

I was upset that I missed the sessions of Benjamin Evans (@thingsbehindsun) and Mark Dowley, I heard their presentations were great too.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions to be poor readers, via @ehanford and @apmreport

The ‘Core Knowledge Society', free, high quality, curriculum resources, via @ckschools

What does your first lesson look like? Via @mrbartonmaths

How can we attract high achievers to teaching? Via @grattaninst

Teaching middle-schoolers about their emotions during transition can have positive outcomes ht @dylanwiliam

Props to those who were willing to have their Ed programs independently evaluation, via @mattdeeble

Fantastic demo of ‘Inertia'

Maths joke: Incorrectly cancelling top and bottom of fraction

A big win for the ERRR podcast!

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