“The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.” (Ausubel, 1968 in Wiliam, 2016) The…https://improvingteaching.co.uk/2017/02/12/why-formative-assessment-matters-the-power-of-prior-knowledge/
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I had the privilege of being in Tom Kendall’s classroom recently, and saw something wonderful. A child in Year 7 said something that showed he’d understood something essential to arithmetic development, or advanced conceptualisation of arithmetic, or an important threshold … Continue reading →https://tothereal.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/must-all-maths-teachers-do-this/
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