Reid Smith
@smithre5.bsky.social
CoCEO of Ochre Education, an Australian NFP helping to close equity gaps through curriculum development
A big day for the La Trobe SOLAR Lab team yesterday. We conferred an Honorary Doctorate on @ehanford.bsky.social and welcomed @smithre5.bsky.social into the PhD fold. With @tserry2504.bsky.social and Joanna Barbousas 🌻
Currently sitting at the airport in San Fran, waiting to fly home after speaking at the Reading League Summit. I can’t tell you how great it was. Panels of experts in their fields, often with differing views, discussing the finer point of agreement (and disagreement).
Latest from us. Whole-class feedback is better than written comments. But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?
But my students like written comments...
Feedback that is accurate, helpful, and doesn't ruin your Sunday evening
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My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>
Newly published in #LSHSS: Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University @sigperspectives.bsky.social
Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction
Purpose: We report the qualitative findings from a survey of elementary teachers regarding reading instruction. The purpose is to extend on quant...
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You can't use one assessment for multiple purposes - it gets pulled out of shape. That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for. Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?
Designing the perfect assessment system, part 1
What's the point of assessment?
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Radio channel which usually plays rubbish just dropped De La Soul and I almost lost my mind.
🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Fast food employee 2. Mining surveyor 3. Internet cafe manager 4. Research immunologist (briefly) 5. Silver service waiter 6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane
Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪@diannemurphy.bsky.social · 2y ago🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Bank teller 2. Hotel receptionist 3. Answering service telephonist 4. Nurse 5. Phlebotomist 6. Primary school teacher 7. Secondary school specialist reading teacher
Good points here on decline of literature (and humanities). I would agree that, being an international phenomenon, this is unlikely to be linked to any particular curriculum or assessment policy (and it’s not like the maths or science curricula have suddenly become more student-friendly).
Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 2y agoA lot of discussion lately about the reasons for the decline of Eng Lit A-level. Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame? I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend. More here.
Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
![An Invention of Collective Nouns
A reckoning of spreadsheets.
A distraction of smartphones.
A prattle of podcasts.
A mispronunciation of scones.
A clique of photographers.
A heard of precedents.
An enjambment of
poets. A grope of presidents.
A pile of haemorrhoids.
A bunion of personal trainers.
A bout of estimations.
A condescension of mansplainers.
A stroke of geniuses.
A spot of adolescents.
An embarrassment of Richards.
A collection [crossed out] correction of pedants.
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The American teaching union AfT has a great journal, American Educator, with free summarised versions of some really seminal papers (Sweller, Kirschner and Clark, Rosenshine, Willingham, and Dunlosky are the biggies). Quick reads, snappy summaries, great to share with teachers
I am gutted to be on the opposite side of the world to #researchED this weekend.
“Factor” in maths and “Factory” in not maths have the same root etymologically. In essence they both refer to components that build towards something else. Here ends today’s reading.
Brilliant as ever from @claresealy.bsky.social. ⬇️
Clare Sealy@claresealy.bsky.social · 2y agoJust posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here! primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...
