Tag: participation

“Sorry I’m late. I was riding on a seahorse” – The problem of punctuality

Posted on by Tania Kaya

As we begin a new academic year, many teachers are thinking about what particular boundaries need to be set in the first few weeks to ensure an appropriate learning environment exists.

Image from "Tiddler" - a book by Julia Donaldson - showing a fish riding on a seahorse underwater
Figure 1: image from Tiddler by Julia Donaldson (2008)

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Randomisers

Posted on by Hannah Gurr and Katherine High

by Hannah Gurr and Katherine High

Tutors on our pre-sessional this year will now be familiar with Dylan Wiliam’s 2010 BBC2 documentary The Classroom Experiment. In it [from 7:21], he says:

The children who are answering everything you ask them are actually getting smarter – their IQs actually go up. And there are other children in the same classroom who are foregoing that opportunity to get smarter. So, if you are allowing children to volunteer to participate or not in your classroom, quite simply you are making the achievement gap bigger. (more…)