Rachel Higginson FCCT

The Problem with Play...@MichaelRosenYes @TeacherToolkit #Video #changecantwait #innovation

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You are the curators of stories. You grow knowledge, hope and wisdom. You are shaping the our future despite the uncertainty and challenge. Our kids are alright ❤️ Thank you from us all at Finding My Voice 🙏🏼✨

I’ve spent decades at the chalkface I can’t tell you how farcical it is to see the cult around explicit instruction develop Do people really think we didn’t explicitly instruct or taught by discovery prior to 2014? I’d laugh if it weren’t for the damage being done to education

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🌲 Authentic Advent Day 18 🧵What is the purpose? Our accountability systems, curriculum and assessments drive a frantic race to get to the ultimate goal.

Authentic Advent Day 14🎄 🧵Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation... Our education system is geared towards reward by extrinsic measures. Value measured by what we achieve rather than who we are.

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@olicav @BradleyKBusch @KatieEHolmes_ Oh @olicav this is so helpful, was reading about this only yesterday!

@BradleyKBusch @KatieEHolmes_ Here, by contrast, is the more widely known deductive method. Easy enough if one has both a solid recall of the content (as might be tested in retrieval practice) and, very importantly, a knowledge of the structure/hierarchy, which is more doubtful without teacher scaffolding.

Why mind maps work 🧠🗺️ From our latest course on Independent Learners, with @KatieEHolmes_ exclusively available on the Teacher CPD Academy.

Authentic Advent Day 10🌲 🧵The Power of Words✨ What young people think and what they are able to express are often at odds. Language shapes our institution and our experience.

Authentic Advent Day 9🎄 🧵'Interthinking' As Professor Neil Mercer so beautifully puts it, once we have learned the mechanics of communication we can go to a deeper exploratory place and 'interthink.'

Authentic Advent Day 8🌲 🧵Active Learning Often the link between active learning and Oracy is missed. When you ask children a question they *might* think about a response.

@jon_hutchinson_ Hate it...😔

I don’t have a substack but the ‘santa-cam’/‘elf reporting to Santa’ weaponsises anxiety, teaches children to internalise shame, treats behavioural choices as inevitable manisfeststions of an intrinsic binary morality and it needs to stop OK thanks.

Authentic Advent Day 6🌲 🧵Say my name... At Finding My Voice we often start with the simple exercise of walking in a room and introducing yourself by name... 'Hello my name is...'

@eyecantalk ❤️

Jonathan wrote a letter for his sisters - dated December 2019 - to be given to them in readiness for their first Christmas without him. With their permission I share now what he wrote in the hope it might help others grieving at this time. #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek

Authentic Advent Day 5🌲 Silence. Part of Finding My Voice is learning to be comfortable in silence. Time to breathe, to be. When we learn to indulge silence we are less anxious about our turn to speak and more able to truly listen. Try a bit of silence, you probably need it

Authentic Advent Day 4🌲 🧵Words from one of our beautiful young people. P was a young person who lacked self confidence but this grew exponentially as she engaged with the Finding My Voice approach.

Authentic Advent Day 3 🌲 🧵Often the most important work we do in school is incidental or organic. This forms the foundation of belonging and powerful, personal development but happens ad-hoc.

🌲 Authentic Advent Day 2🌲 Authentic: undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine. Why the focus on authentic? Because in an overwhelmingly dominant, technological world we need to be more human than ever before if we are to thrive. How can we respond? A human education.

This week's Listening Letter from @findingmvoice Very helpful links to help support all our learners via @creativeHigg finding-my-voice.beehiiv.com/p/listening-le…

And we're off... 🙏🏼