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Summary This YouTube transcript discusses a teacher’s approach to achieving 100% student engagement. The teacher argues that complete attention is crucial for learning and outlines classroom strategies to ensure this, including minimizing distractions and fostering a culture of participation through frequent questioning and hand-raising. The discussion also explores the interconnectedness of engagement, behavior, and classroom…

Summary This YouTube transcript discusses strategies for maximizing student engagement during independent practice in the classroom. A teacher recounts a survey indicating that independent practice is the lesson phase with the lowest student participation. The video then proposes several techniques to address this, including ensuring all students begin working simultaneously, using visualizers to showcase student…

My school support days always end with departmental CPD based on an area for development I have identified during the morning’s lesson visits. This CPD takes the following format: We then schedule a time for paired drop-ins, and schedule a time for a departmental reflection session. But there is an important phase that happens before…

Paper summary This research explores the impact of “seductive details”—interesting but irrelevant additions to learning materials—on student learning outcomes. Two studies examined how the presence of seductive details affected learning performance under conditions of high and low extrinsic motivation. Results indicated that seductive details hindered learning when students were highly extrinsically motivated but either had…

Paper summary This commentary synthesizes eleven research papers exploring learning from errors and failures in educational settings. The papers investigate contextual factors (e.g., classroom climate), individual factors (e.g., motivation and emotions), error-related learning processes, and instructional strategies (e.g., feedback) that influence learning. The commentary also identifies conceptual challenges, such as distinguishing between errors and failures,…

Paper summary This meta-analysis examines the relationship between perceived mental effort, monitoring judgments (of learning), and actual learning outcomes. The researchers used a meta-analytic structural equation model to analyze data from 35 studies, finding a negative correlation between perceived mental effort and monitoring judgments, and a positive correlation between monitoring judgments and learning outcomes. A…

Paper summary Steve Farndon’s Achieve and Thrive is a research-based guide for educators on pupil motivation and engagement. It emphasizes the importance of meeting students’ psychosocial needs—competence, relatedness, and autonomy—to foster intrinsic motivation. The guide explains self-determination theory, detailing how external regulation acts as a safety net, while internalization and integration of motivations lead to…

Paper summary This research article investigates attention contagion in a university lecture hall. Researchers manipulated student attentiveness (attentive vs. inattentive confederates) and seating proximity to examine its impact on participants’ attentiveness, note-taking, and quiz performance. The study found that inattentiveness, but not attentiveness, spread contagiously, particularly among students seated between inattentive peers. Mediation analyses suggested…

Paper summary This excerpt from Embedding Formative Assessment by Wiliam and Leahy outlines five key strategies for effective formative assessment.  Strategy 1 focuses on clarifying learning intentions and success criteria.  Strategy 2 emphasizes engineering effective discussions and activities to elicit evidence of learning.  Strategy 3 details providing feedback that promotes student progress.  Strategy 4 advocates for activating students as learning resources…

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