⏰ It's almost here - ResearchEd Cork this Saturday! My session explores how in-house TPL can drive school improvement. Leaders, teacher educators & mentors - come along for practical tips on designing great CPD! See you in West Cork - last few tickets: eventbrite.com/e/researched-…

🧠 @researchED1 National this weekend! I'm on straight after lunch in M07: 🎓 14.00-14.40: Consistency Is Killing Us: Reclaiming teacher professionalism and agency through PD at scale Leaders, teacher educators, professional development leads and mentors- see you there! #rED25

"Government should... provide a core backbone of qualifications... and then focus on building a flourishing ecosystem of high-quality PD, from which schools and teachers can choose freely." Bold yet balanced pushes from @hamer_marie and @LoicMnzs in this really important report!

“Teaching is a contact sport” says Dr Neil Gilbride @nmgilbride. @researchED1 #ResearchEdOutOfContext

👋🏽 I’ll be speaking twice at @researchED1 National today: - Session 4 in K10 - Session 6 in M20 My talk: "Why your PD offer is your school improvement plan, and how to maximise its impact" Does your role involve in CPD, leadership or school improvement? This is for you! #rED24

📣ResearchEd tomorrow! Due to a small printing error I'm not on the main timetable, but I *will* be speaking at: - M20 - Session 6 I'll be giving my brand new talk "Why your PD offer is your school improvement plan, and how to maximise its impact" Come and say hello! 👋 #rED24

Love a bit of intra-conference cross pollination! @adamjames317 getting a shout out for his knowledge organiser work during @KateJones_teach keynote 🙌🏽 #REdChesh

Such a pleasure to listen to @lamb_heart_tea and @MrsBallAP dropping some serious knowledge - writing frames risk creating “writing by numbers” tasks that fail to develop deep, disciplinary literacy 👌🏾 Great way to end the day at @EducationFest 🌞

Secondly, strongly agree on the dangers of coaches focusing on 'easy to spot' & 'easy to coach' techniques. To me, the risk here is that these actually backwash into and distort our definition of effective teaching and learning, as I wrote about here: nickpointer.com/are-we-even-…

E.g. we can give teachers something to help direct their attention while they consider a model (for instance, a set of success criteria). This leverages the Managing Cognitive Load mechanism, since it reduces the number of things they need to pay attention to and notice 🔍