Education Charity supporting Science, Maths and English pedagogy designed on the Cognitive acceleration approach from King`s College. Cog Sci for 40 years.
This sounds like @LetsThinkForum which I’m currently doing with the whole of our Year 8 cohort. It takes a little while to get students used to it but it’s good.
CASE is coming back to the Tees Valley!
Carmel College in Darlington have been successful in gaining a Strategic School Improvement Fund grant to support science in 12 schools from Darlington to Middlesbrough.
The project is led by David Bailey with Alan Edmiston
We do a wide range of war poetry with year 8, some William Carlos Williams, I like The Witch by Elizabeth Coleridge for the gothic, @LetsThinkForum have some great ones in their lessons including some Shakespearean sonnets
I’m a huge advocate. I’ve just done a lesson comparing Dorothy and William Wordsworth’s writing and the discussion was so rich. They’re able to bridge seamlessly with Romanticism and Frankenstein too so it enriches our main curriculum
These ss have done LTE for 4 years now and *think* so hard seeing the value in discussion and debate. It’s so well structured & CPD experience has given me lots of little ways to ensure whole class participation in an organic (seeming) equitable way.
Very pleased to be making 3 presentations at Practical Pedagogies at St. George's British International School Cologne pracped.net/
How to develop Exploratory Talk
How Epistemic Inquiry can help plan a science curriculum.
How to get to know how your students think
Also a year after the intervention we had sustained and far transferred effects on the ACER ISA assessment. Same psychometrics as PISA. see abceducation.ch/blog/2018/03…
Michael and I did a small scale quasi experimental trial N=57. We got large effect size in Piagetian test scores compared to original CSMS data very large N.
These tools allowed objective measurement of the cognitive readiness students bring to their learning and the demand of key scientific objectives. Thus enabling superb planning of learning.
Two of the most important products of the Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education intervention were the Science Reasoning Tasks (SRT) community.letsthink.org.uk/r…
and The Curriculum Analysis Taxonomy (CAT).
community.letsthink.org.uk/r…
Our programmes grew out of the applied Cognitive Readiness and Demand Theory developed by Shayer and Adey in the decades between 1970s and 2000. The working memory research of people like Juan Pascual-Leone, Robbie Case, and Andreas Demetriou
@apdemetriou
Thanks to Dr. Gary Ackerman @GaryAckermanPhD for the link to this source. It very much describes how successful and challenging group discussion are in Cognitive Acceleration programmes