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What do children need to learn? Alfred Binet 1857 - ‘What (children) should learn first is not the subjects ordinarily taught, however important they may be; they should be given lessons of will, of attention, of discipline; before exercises in grammar, they need to be exercised in mental orthopaedics; in a word

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What do children need to learn?

Alfred Binet1857 - 1911

‘What (children) should learn first is not the subjects

ordinarily taught, however important they may be; they

should be given lessons of will, of attention, of discipline; before

exercises in grammar, they need to be exercised in mental

orthopaedics; in a word they must learn how to learn.’

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Number of words heard by children

A child in a welfare-dependent family hears on average 616 words an hour

A child in a working-class home hears on average 1,251 words an hour

A child in a professional home hears on average 2,153 words an hour

Number of words spoken by the time children are 3

500

700

1100

Hart & Risley, 1995

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What matters is what you believe about intelligence

People who believe intelligence comes mainly from nature have a ‘fixed’ mindset

Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford

People who believe intelligence comes mainly from nurture have a ‘growth’ mindset

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ANALYSEANTICIPATEAPPLYCAUSAL-LINKCHOOSECLASSIFYCOMPARE CONNECTCONTRASTDECIDEDEFINE

DESCRIBE DETERMINEDISCUSSELABORATEESTIMATEEVALUATEEXEMPLIFYEXPLOREGENERALISEGIVE EXAMPLESGIVE REASONS

GROUPHYPOTHESISEIDENTIFYINFERINTERPRETORGANISEPARAPHRASEPREDICTQUESTIONRANKREPRESENT

RESPONDSEQUENCESIMPLIFYSHOW HOWSOLVESORTSUMMARISESUPPORTTESTVERIFYVISUALISE

A selection of thinking skills

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900+ meta-analyses

50,000+ studies and

240+ million students

What is the typical influence on achievement?

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A common scale for measuring progress in student achievement

Stanine Percentile

Reading

age

Maths level SATs, GCSE, etc

An Effect Size

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< -1.0

1-.9

3-.8

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3-.3

3-.2

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3 .07 .17 .27 .37 .47 .57 .67 .77 .87 .971.07

1.171.27

1.371.47

1.571.67

1.771.87

1.970

5000

10000

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f Eff

ects

Visible Learning, John Hattie

Negative Positive

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