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To close the #gap, we need to think - which gaps? Not just #attainment & schools - addressing #ACE will need everyone working together
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James McTaggart
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James McTaggart
@JamesEdPsych
Educational Psychologist sharing evidence & ideas - infants, early years, literacy, trauma, family wellbeing & more. Enjoys: different views. Loathes: broccoli
Beigetreten Mart 2017
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A knock from the police changed Deana's life. Her dad was arrested for online child sexual offences. These are her own words, with images inspired by her drawings.
Find out more: lucyfaithfull.org.uk/what-about-us-…
Webinar: @ad6b4fe9-6137-4dbe-9acd-969b4723df64" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fa24cfcc…
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#SaferInternetDay from @UK_SIC is today! We're taking part alongside thousands of other organisations.
There are many great resources to help parents and children on saferinternetday.org.uk.
Young people can get guidance, reassurance, and support: shorespace.org.uk/topics/online-…
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Often adults struggle to solve problems *about* children that are better solved *with* children. They have the info about what's really going on & their perspective makes complex problems simpler. Which makes solutions more (cost) effective. Oh, and it's their right!
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Lots of conversations atm about #behaviour in #earlyyears.
Children’s actions can often be understood as their "voice", giving us info about their developmental needs - especially when they are inconvenient or difficult!
Some ideas in the table:
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Lots of conversations atm about behaviour in early years. Children’s actions can often be understood as their "voice", giving us info about their developmental needs - especially when they are inconvenient or difficult! Some ideas in the table:
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Our anonymous Stop It Now service is here for anyone who needs us over the holiday period, with some adjustments to our regular hours, and a period of closure over the Christmas week.
If you're concerned about child sexual abuse, get in touch at stopitnow.org.uk
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Superb advice here, and fits v well with NICE Guidance 204 on Babies, Children and Young People's Experiences of Healthcare
nice.org.uk/guidance/ng204
Dr Richard Webb@DrRJWebb
I see amazing interactions between health staff and children every day. But I also sometimes see ones that could be better. Here’s some tips for consultations, as people rotate to Paeds next week, and for people who don’t work with CYP every day!
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@C_Hendrick this paper might be of interest if you've not already seen it?
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Interesting new paper on transfer of research to educational practice, although it lacks the educator perspective on this
Narrow focus, lack of theoretical integration, small piecemeal changes - with some solutions
nature.com/articles/s4153…
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Some of our children had never been to the cinema – until today! 🎞️🍿🤩
There’s no standardised score, progress measure or league table to demonstrate the importance of this but when you’re serving a community where this stuff isn’t a given, let me tell you, it matters.
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Henwick Primary@HenwickPrimary
Children in year 2 and year 3 went to the cinema to see The Sloth Lane today – for some it was their first time at the cinema! The film had a bit of Spanish in it and they got very excited that they could understand it from their lessons. ☺️🎞️🇪🇸
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@JamesEdPsych @LaShaps1 @ChrisCotF @3dancingfeet We used to have a lot more autonomy to do this. Since the huge push on “fidelity” regardless of age or stage, things have moved to a much more “one size fits all” approach which has led to some children having gaps and still being expected to make the same progress. It’s complex.
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@ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Yes, with the proviso that the paper's measure is "efficient decoding", which at the timepoint they are measuring depends in part on previous PA skills automation
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@JamesEdPsych @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Thanks for sharing this. I used AI to help me understand the paper (hopefully the AI is right!). It seems to be saying that decoding helps with prosody(fluency) which in turn helps with the end goal of comprehension.
Link to Gemini - g.co/gemini/share/1…
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All you need to be good at teaching is to “have common sense” (Hoven, 2025).
I’d better tell my hundreds of preservice teachers they’re wasting their time training with us. But the department of education, our accrediting body, might get a wee bit annoyed 🥴
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Niels Hoven 🐮@NielsHoven
@3dancingfeet I don’t know, I guess it’s just not that hard if you have common sense
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@LaShaps1 @ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Perhaps what it shows overall is that children may well do better long term in a system where teachers can assess phonological awareness and make professional judgements about adaptations
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@LaShaps1 @ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet I think Laura's "it's complicated" needs to be said a lot more in discussions about #literacy learning!
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@JamesEdPsych @ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Yes agree- I was at the launch for the "pre-phonics boost" programme recently and spoke to SLTs from special education who are very careful not to introduce graphemes too soon (what do you think of this programme? Seems well aligned with yours?) …arningcentre.speechandlanguage.org.uk/course/pre-pho…
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@ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet In general, the debate between teaching PA with graphemes or without is hard to settle - best solved pragmatically in my view as teachers assess and address children's PA skills - some may need A LOT more PA, such that including graphemes might overload, some don't
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@ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Thanks, I'll read this properly later. Just eyeballing while the porridge cooks, it talks about PA instruction as involving "The beginning reader is taught the 44 phonemes of English" - that's not quite what we are talking about. It's more these kinds of things:
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@ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Here's one, shows the complexity of it in later reading - the diagram shows this if you don't have access (but the text adds more nuance). In initial reading it's simpler, as is just appealing to a cognitive load/efficiency argument!
ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
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@ChrisCotF @SwailesRuth @3dancingfeet Oh super! It's discussed informally in the first chapter and the one on PA - and the online resources give you an annotated reference list
I'm just looking out a paper on the directional question
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