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I'm reposting this as I think the link in the original has corrupted. drive.google.com/file/d/1-y81XL… The first slide on the PowerPoint is the full organiser the second is the animated one.

@adamboxer1 Which exam board Adam?

Chemistry paper 1 was disgusting! 😱😱😱😱

A well deserved 🌟First Place🌟 for Tomlinscote in the Outcomes Category of The Real Schools Guide (Surrey) and an overall rating of 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Congratulations to all staff and pupils!

Can’t speak for other schools or kids...the main disadvantage or ‘gap’ I’m seeing with teens and distance learning is those who rely on the structure of school to make them do *any* work and those who can make themselves work or have adults at home helping to hold them to account

Student: You know coronavirus was made by the Chinese to kill us all though don't you miss. Me: No that isn't true. Student: It is miss - just google it and you'll see.🤦‍♀️ One for the 'don't know why we bother with teaching knowledge when you can Google it' crowd. #cogscisci

@RogersHistory That sounds awful. I must be one of the lucky ones. I feel so supported and valued. I know I'm accountable for the science results but it's never made to feel like a stick to beat me with. My team are lovely!! Deep dives sound fair enough really. My smile is genuine! Love my job!

@MrTSci409 @cogscisci @SarahComfort1 and best if they keep the marks to themselves

@SarahComfort1 @cogscisci Another Dylan Wiliam quote: “the best person to mark a test is the person who took the test” or something like that! #cogscisci

Q.4 How can we best use the idea of self, peer and teacher diagnosis to understand what pupils know? #CogSciSci

@cogscisci We made video feedback of our mocks using explain everything. Takes a while but a great resource once done. You can live model answers and point out common pitfalls etc. Students can fast forward if they got the question right! #cogscisci

Q.5 How can we best develop reflection from exam/test type situations? Are exam wrappers a useful resource which allows pupils to reflect? What better methods are there? #CogSciSci

@cogscisci We had whole school CPD on methods for assessing whole class understanding - it was quite useful a surprising number of methods. I’m very old school whiteboards, questioning, pair share that’s about it!

@SarahComfort1 @cogscisci I think we know someone who didn’t like it!!

@cogscisci #cogscisci I have had very little success with peer marking - does anyone else find it useful?

@MrTSci409 @cogscisci I also like the idea of practice rather than improvement. Much of the time I am encouraged to get students to improve work where we should really be talking about additional practice.

@MrTSci409 @cogscisci This makes so much sense. So much time wasted with students copying mark schemes which they do not understand.

This question is in two parts: Q.3 Dylan Wiliam has suggested in ‘What does it look like in the classroom?’ that feedback should improve the learner, not the task. How do we best use Hattie’s idea of levels of feedback to improve the learner?

@cogscisci I always find giving feedback on generic skills such as graph drawing quite straightforward, but find it much harder when you have to drill down individual layers of hierarchical knowledge to find where problems / misconceptions are

Q.2 What are the barriers to effective feedback and how do we overcome them? #CogSciSci

It’s #CogSciSciChat again this Tuesday from 8pm-9pm GMT with fabulous guest host @DWalkerdine His chosen topic is #feedback. Discussing different types and what makes it high quality. Should be a cracker! Be there. #edutwitter #CogSciSci

Just read this again this morning. Absolutely brilliant blog post. Thanks so much for sharing, Adam.

This is quite the thread. Top stuff.

#CogSciSciChat next instalment will be on Tuesday 11th Feb from 8pm-9pm. Pls RT! @MrTSci409 has handed over the hosting controls to @DWalkerdine for a discussion on types of #feedback & what affects its quality. Feedback is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. So...

How we support the lower sets? "Repeating and drilling the facts!" @sclear_29 #MichaelaScience

Simple and clear: five questioning strategies. Hands up; cold call; choral response; turn to your partner (with a neat signal); mini whiteboards. #MichaelaScience - great intro from @oliviaparisdyer

Full house at #MichaelaScience conference tonight! So exciting to see so many teachers here!

Superbly impressed to see Flo using the visualiser to live model and question about straw blowing and collage work in Y7 art today. Great practice. Students so engaged. Very impressive @i2iPartnership.