PiqueABoo
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PiqueABoo
@NetNym
Old-school truth-seeker. Distrusts consensus. Pro-reality.
England Katılım Ocak 2011
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@NetNym @AnneSYates @FixingEducation hmm... not convinced - the number of schools who teach Mixed ability in both year 7 and 8 (or setted in 7 and 8) is relatively small --x.com/staffdb66/stat…
David Robert@staffdb66
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It appears recent research shows that grouping students by ability does NOT harm the progress of lower-performing students.
Teachers, what’s been your experience? Do lower students benefit more from mixed-ability classes or grouped classes…or does it not make much difference?
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@AnneSYates @FixingEducation Very in an English context. It is England's largest & most robust study on ability grouping in secondary school maths to date.
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@MrMetacognition @Hardymatt0 Perhaps, but I didn't ask if it would work everywhere.
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@NetNym @Hardymatt0 Everything works somewhere, but some things don't work everywhere.
There are lessons to learn from lots of top performing schools but we can't just lift and apply everything that they do across all contexts.
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This is a must read.
Peter Mattock on recent research around setting versus mixed attainment groups in Mathematics: educatingmrmattock.blogspot.com/2026/05/does-m…
I had to pick out this final paragraph because this conclusion is so important.
The grouping of learners is of secondary importance to the quality of teaching in the first instance. Setting, streaming, mixed... the crucial aspect of any is high quality teaching.
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@MrMetacognition @Hardymatt0 Given their GCSE results, especially for maths, we seem to have an epitome of that i.e. Michaela.
So why is there so much hostility towards them?
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So I completely get this - of course we've all been focusing on this.
I think my reading of it is we need to keep working on the highest quality teaching, and improving this, and not thinking that the way that we group together students is a greater priority than this is (or will solve our issues around attainment)
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@ScientificCoder @Jason_To My daughter had that in her primry school Y5 & again in Y6 (academic years of 9th & 10th birthdays).
A stoic high-achieving girl used as a firewall between the worst child & the rest of the class.
Wasn't bullied by any others in the class though.
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Let's dig deeper...
The EEF gave the study 2 out of 5 for evidence strength due to attrition, small sample, not controlling for teacher quality, etc.
The conclusions warn mixed- and ability-grouped classes about issues already known and do not call to end mixed classes.
Anna Stokke@rastokke
New EEF study finds lower-attaining students are NOT harmed by ability grouping, but higher-attaining students are held back in mixed classes. Advanced students don't get enough attention in my view. What is the goal of public education? Getting all students to a minimum competency level has to be one goal. But is there not an obligation to provide an environment for students who have surpassed minimum competency to keep moving ahead? educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/high-atta…
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It's been fascinating to watch mainstream liberal culture slowly boil every human quality down to politics
Is he the greatest guitarist of all time? "Well I can't answer that question until I see their tweets during Covid"
Robin Monotti@robinmonotti
Rolling Stone moved Eric Clapton down from the top 10 of greatest guitar players of all time to 35 because he admitted to being Covid "vaccine" injured & refused to discriminate on entry to his concerts based on "vaccine" status. They even admit the reasoning in the explanation!
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@TBoneTidbit @TolentinoTeach So why did so many teachers, mostly on the humanities side, tell my English daughter she needed to contribute more in class etc?
She did not, but it might have helped the teacher now & again.
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@TolentinoTeach But teachers love introverts. Teachers aren’t built to teach the extroverts.
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Unpopular idea:
Many school environments are not built for introverts.
Yes, collaboration matters.
Yes, school plays an important role in social development.
But let’s be honest about the other side.
The constant noise.
The pressure to speak on demand.
The overuse of group work.
The lack of control over classroom volume and behavior.
The absence of sustained silence.
All of it works against the introverted student.
Many of the “quiet” students aren’t disengaged. They’re out of their element.
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@scottadamson11 @clharrington024 Akshually... that is precisely what we (I'm English) have just been given credible evidence for.
By one of our most notorious mixed-ability cheerleaders too.
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@clharrington024 There is no credible evidence to support-"The bottom quartile hold back the KIDS AT THE TOP." The kids at the top may have many advantages like ec. security;two parent family,etc. The ed. system's job is to create equitable opportunities for all
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This confirms what every teacher in the classroom knows. Ability grouping works.
The bottom quartile hold back the kids at the top.
We are throttling our top achievers and it will destroy our country. We need innovators and thinkers and developers. We must unleash our top achievers, let them run.
Those students in the bottom quartile need small classes with teachers and pull out interventions. Push in does not work, it simply distracts the rest of the class and makes the classroom noisy.
Every school elementary-high school must move to ability grouped classes. No more grade levels. They are arbitrary and don’t matter. Let kids accelerate as fast as possible, and conversely give the students who are struggling the intervention they need.
Jack@tracewoodgrains
Ability grouping, with appropriately tailored curriculum, helps high-achieving students and does not hurt others. The research has pointed this way for a century despite generations of propaganda to the contrary, but it's good to have another reminder. Ability grouping works.
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@philmcraig @StephenMoss_TV Was hardly visible in the original colour photo so made it monochrome & messed w. the contrast.
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A bump in the night and a remarkably detailed mark on the window. A pigeon with a headache @StephenMoss_TV ?
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Listen to the hurt and frustration in this teacher’s voice. Because she works in a system that asks her to manage the behaviour of the complex sea of humanity with no tools or systems to keep safety, dignity and order. Because the default mechanism she’s allowed to use to respond to disruption is a restorative chat and little else.
BBC Debate Night@bbcdebatenight
Watch as an Inverurie #bbcdn audience member shares her experience working as a teacher Catch up with the whole of last week’s Debate Night, on @BBCSounds and @BBCiPlayer now Do you want to be in the audience for our upcoming programmes? Apply now: bbc.co.uk/send/u39873202
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Think the kid was high-school age.
The age when daughter's girl friends jokingly gave her most likely to become a serial killer.
In public she's relatively quiwt, stoic & inscrutable.
Do some teachers become their pupils, or does teaching select for less grown up?
Katharine Birbalsingh@Miss_Snuffy
Teacher makes a 6 year old a certificate saying he is ‘Most likely to become a dictator’ because of his conservative values. I have been warning against for decades. The future of western civilisation is in the hands of our teachers. 😳
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@cbokhove @rastokke @greg_ashman Was there an urgent reason for your original vague comment, which appears to have been crafted as an invitation to readers to impute *something*?
I just want receipts. How many mathematicians are doing that & what are they asserting should happen at the chalkface?
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@rastokke @greg_ashman Incorrect Anna. Firstly, Greg has a tendency to impute his own 'speculations', see my timeline for quite positive comments on how you engage with the field, although imo a bit one-sided.
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I wonder why mathematics professors with little or no experience in schools think they know how best to teach mathematics in schools.
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@theenglishwitc1 @Miss_Snuffy 22yo daughter has a shiny maths degree, but one of her other talents us that she can write extremely well.
Suppose she got to wring a few years of glory from that.
Oh well.
Perhaps she can learn to write less well to head off accusations of using AI.
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AI detectors don’t work because they’re, uh, AI. And AI was trained with the best of texts which is why people often get accused of using AI when they just have good SPaG. It’s a mess at the moment, but students who use AI for essays will end up being exposed in exams or in their careers.
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You hear this and students will rightly conclude that they would be better off using AI for their university essays.
End of education! 😳
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@drhingram Oh. We got caught by one taking 3-4 year-old daughter to closest neighbourhood park to try bike riding.
They blurred & disappeared us at some point. Still visible from a virtual distance but we fade away if you get up that close.
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