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Rebekah Gear

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Education

Ramblings about all things education. Not claiming content will be educational!

03/23/2021

Cognitive Load Theory, the Classroom and our Children.

What CLT means for our classroom practice and most importantly children. Some science, some suggestions but very much only a scratch on the surface…
03/23/2021

A Desirable Difficulty

Another ramble about the reasons why we need to increasingly learn about learning. It is always going to be difficult, but here I unpick one tool which is descried as a ‘desirable difficulty’.
03/23/2021

A Mindfulness Matter

Mindfulness, as much as we are becoming increasingly familiar with it in practice, still very much remains a mystery. This blog unpicks its potential, and looks at the possibility of making mindfulness a pedagogy .
03/01/2021

The Road to Becoming a Researcher

Why our role as researchers is inescapable. A few thoughts to be considered and some practical pointers along the way.
03/01/2021

The reality of Rosenshine

A lesson about learning. Unpicking Rosenshine’s principles and what the reality of these are in practice.
02/28/2021

The Lesson our Curriculum could Learn from Maths

A matter of pedagogy not programme of study. What I believe could be the key to creating ‘masters’ in every subject area. Not something I am claiming to have yet perfected in practice, but the makings of my own ‘curriculum masterclass’ inspired by what I have learnt about teaching and leaning in maths.
02/28/2021

Pupil voice, a pursuit worthwhile

An ‘unpicking’ of policy and it’s ever ambitious impact. Some suggestions of what pupil voice could look like in practice but most importantly, why it is always a pursuit worthwhile.
02/28/2021

Fluency? Reasoning? Problem-solving? Sorry, what was the question?

Things I wish I could go back and tell my NQT-self. A journey of understanding what teaching for mastery really means and how this enables every child to become a mathematician. A matter of inclusion, as well as mathematics.
02/26/2021

Creating Connections or Causing Confusion?

A research write up. Something I thought I knew the answer to yet how it became a topsy turvy learning journey for me and the children.

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Ramblings about all things education. Not claiming content will be educational!

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Rebekah Gear
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2021
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