Kevin Fulton
@Teacher_Fulton
Educational Psychology PhD candidate @OhioState | Former Elementary Teacher | Interested in Pedagogy, Curriculum, Trauma, Philosophy of Education, & More
the cool thing about writing a popular book is that your thesis can outlast the on-the-ground data indefinitely a decade out from the decline, people still cite Finland
What is it you prefer about the Finnish system?
Hong Kong Watch strongly condemns @ukhomeoffice plans to reintroduce extradition cooperation with #HongKong by removing its 'Part 2' designation under the 1997 Extradition Treaty. This change will make it possible to have opaque, case-by-case extradition deals between 🇬🇧 and…
I've had some great conversations with @Teacher_Fulton. He's got some great insights.
Help me get into the 2,000s. Follow me, I'm interesting.
Thread on why teaching children to read English is not equivalent to teaching children to read Finnish (or any other transparent orthography)
Also, Finnish is the most orthographically regular alphabetic system in Europe. After 1 year of teaching Finnish children make almost no mistakes in reading aloud because there are so few mistakes it’s possible to make. English is *the* most opaque orthography. On average…
100% agree.
The #2 rule of teaching: all children benefit from being taught in ways that disproportionately benefit those with special needs open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…
It would be fascinating to see how this matches up with schools’ actual budgets. Are teacher perceptions accurate?
Excellent thread about the importance of giving students a solid foundation in basic skills. When those skills are automatic, it frees up attention and working memory for more advanced thinking.
Expertise isn't about having more working memory, it's about needing less of it. Experts automate many components in long-term memory and can recognise meaningful patterns instantly, bypassing the need to process individual elements. ⬇️ 🧵
I think this is a very cool concept. An organization that essentially helps teachers launch their own micro-school.
Edefy.us puts education power back in the hands of the people. Communities anywhere are now free to build their own in-person, small group education solutions, on-demand. Inspired by the superior student outcomes generated from Pod and Microschooling, Edefy…
Teacher requested 'trauma-informed support' for a 2nd grader crying and yelling. What set her off? Tchr, "What's this word? Look at the picture" Kid, "Pony" (Word was horse) Kid: She called me stupid Tchr: She must get that racism from home Poor reading instruction is a menace
If the only way for a child to "read" a page is to guess the word by looking at a picture, they're not actually reading.
If the only way for a child to "read" a page is to guess the word by looking at a picture, they're not actually reading.
Demonic...Even more evil: some of the victims were children of the men involved. Yes, the men sex trafficked their own children. This is wickedness.
10 kids — as young as 2 — held captive, sexually tortured with shock collars in Alabama basement as part of sex trafficking ring: cops trib.al/Z8hHaO6
After some minor messing around with rewiring an electrical box, I have determined that electricity is better explained by magic than by science.
Staff evaluation should measure: Context–What are their qualifications, how many students, students' backgrounds, etc Compliance–using the core intervention components prescribed by the program Competence–level of skill in applying core components to their particular students
"Joyce & Showers (2002) pointed out that leadership, organizational culture, labor-relations, scheduling, interpersonal relationships, & engagement in participatory planning all impact the availability & effectiveness of coaching. Coaches also need to be trained and coached."
Newly-learned behavior is "•crude compared to performance by a master practitioner. •fragile and needs to be supported in the face of reactions from [students and colleagues] •incomplete and will need to be shaped to be most functional in a [school] setting"
![Teacher_Fulton's tweet image. Newly-learned behavior is
"•crude compared to performance by a master practitioner.
•fragile and needs to be supported in the face of reactions from [students and colleagues]
•incomplete and will need to be shaped to be most functional in a [school] setting"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gwj3nv-WEAAQ4R7.png)
Since so much of teacher PDs and trainings are useless, what are characteristics of effective PD and trainings? "The essence of implementation is behavior change." –Fixsen et al., 2005
Many schools won't provide teachers with "time off" to be trained in an intervention. And, much of, ~95%~ of the training content is near useless. (As a former teacher, I can certainly vouch for the uselessness of many PDs) Yikes.
Many schools won't provide teachers with "time off" to be trained in an intervention. And, much of, ~95%~ of the training content is near useless. (As a former teacher, I can certainly vouch for the uselessness of many PDs) Yikes.
