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Delete, Substitute and Keep: A Practical Guide for Teaching Summarising and Note-Taking
Summarising and note-taking require students to condense information into a concise form. Meaningful notes will also identify connections between the ideas contained within a passage of text. Generating notes and summaries is difficult for students because they struggle to tell what is and isn’t noteworthy. I often read that the Cornell system offers a practical…
Mapshock: Avoiding Cognitive Overload when Introducing Graphic Organisers
I posted a blog this morning about using graphic organisers to support reading and writing during remote learning. @memneon — someone I enjoy engaging with on Twitter — asked this question: In my blog, I explain how graphic organisers can support reading and writing during remote learning. I propose that graphic organisers allow students to…
Using Graphic Organisers to Support Reading and Writing During Remote Learning
Clear writing comes from clear thinking (F and G Andrews, 1996). Investing time in rehearsing and planning can improve students’ confidence when writing. A direct writing route and knowing where to start can elevate the quality of a student’s writing. Reading can be complicated. Students can encounter difficulties in decoding words, recalling what they have…
BrewED Cleethorpes Presentation — Organise Ideas: Graphic Organisers for Meaningful Learning
Here is the link to my BrewED Cleethorpes presentation, from Saturday 9th January 2021. https://youtu.be/V0JrnnVaFWo Also available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iNBfamSy4hVTl9mgM8it1Jj2epAPNk1t/view?usp=drivesdk
Organising Knowledge: Ausubel’s Advance organisers
The Situation Expert teachers create and maintain, almost automatically, complex networks that link concepts, ideas and facts within their domain (Ambrose and colleagues 2010 P.43). Furthermore, experts have richly connected and meaningful knowledge structures which allow them to use knowledge more efficiently and effectively. In contrast, most of our students have sparsely connected knowledge structures…
Connection Cues
I’ve been thinking about how I use retrieval in the classroom, and how over time, this has become a much more responsive process, with a sense of automaticity that was certainly not there in the earlier years of my teaching practice. I thought it might be useful to share my thinking on how to set…
Free Template for Creating Booklets
Here is a free template I use to create booklets and other educational resources: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1kcCyOFFR4akoDrGdlDEJVzMFR8rPeHAP/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=mspresentation If you’d like to know how to create your own, visit: https://mrgoodwin23.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/step-by-step-video-tutorial-how-to-create-professional-looking-documents-for-the-purpose-of-learning/ And for tips on how to create graphic organisers, visit: https://mrgoodwin23.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/step-by-step-video-tutorial-how-to-create-a-graphic-organiser/
researchED Surrey 2020
I, like many others, have greatly benefited from the researchED movement. Standing on the shoulders of giants we have been privileged to learn from Ruth Walker, Mary Myatt, Kate Jones, Tom Sherrington, Oliver Caviglioli, Adam Boxer, Paul Kirschner and many more. If you want to know what generosity is, look no further than researchED Home.…
Searching for Meaning using Graphic Organisers
Humans have always been tools users. During the Stone Age, humans made tools for hunting and chopping down trees. Laptops, smartphones and stationery are all examples of modern tools designed to help us accomplish predetermined tasks. The tools we use have purpose and come with their own rules. These rules might be considered guiding principles…
Organise Ideas Contributors’ Guide
I have a new project and a new partner! Delighted to work with Oliver Caviglioli on a book titled Organise Ideas, graphic organsiers for meaningful learning. We are delighted with the response we’ve had to our tweet about our book project. We thank you for your enthusiasm towards the use of graphic organisers and your…
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