Ben Cooper FCCT | WAGOLL Teaching
@WAGOLLTeaching
Primary Headteacher | Passionate about Primary Blog: http://wagollteaching.com Substack: https://wagollteaching.substack.com/
I'm putting my money where my mouth is and dipping my toes into academic blogging. This may be a disastrous failure or slow success, time will tell. If you're interested in the cognitive science/psychology in education, please join me :) open.substack.com/pub/brainandle…
This is a huge amount of data showing very strong correlational links between early smartphone exposure and poor mental health and wellbeing. It’s getting harder to ignore the urgency of serious preemptive action to be taken to protect children from a danger that we buy for them…
What is the effect of giving children smartphones before the age of 13? It's bad. Strongly associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing. BUT the evidence is largely correlational. What does this mean? 🧵⬇️
It's here! 💥 Couldn't be prouder of this book and 2 years of hard work alongside Alex Fairlamb finally coming to fruition. Really hope people like it and find it useful!
Congratulations to the @Lionesses for reaching another UEFA Euro final. #WEURO2025
WE NEVER GIVE UP. WE ARE #WEURO2025 FINALISTS.
Increasingly of the view that “teaching and learning” is really not a useful or helpful phrase for professional development. It’s too broad, too contested, and too imprecise to drive meaningful change. 'Instructional design' as a point of focus provides much more clarity. It…
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. ⬇️ 🧵
INCREDIBLEEEEE!!!!!!! 🔥 WE ARE #WEURO2025 SEMI-FINALISTS! 😍
Introduced in the 78th minute. Assist for Lucy Bronze in the 79th minute. Assist for Michelle Agyemang in the 81st minute. Converted her penalty. Chloe Kelly. ✨
Thinking Aloud - Children need to know how you became intelligent and the process that that entails buff.ly/siS9SOb
Vocab, vocab, vocab! We have three criteria when we’re selecting books for @TheTeachersColl 1️⃣ The visuals in the books should be beautiful. And that’s because gorgeous images provoke curiosity and if our pupils are curious, they are likely to learn more. /1
A sample 6 week PD cycle buff.ly/ly90puU
A summary of my posts in June. buff.ly/3JZAWXD
The Art of Introducing a Learning Intention buff.ly/uaZzuaP
A key phrase from the writing framework that I fear may get lost is around the fact that although it recommends that chn should sit in the correct position for specific writing practice, it goes on to say that this does NOT mean they need to sit at tables for the rest of the day
Modelling is essential for novice learners. It directs attention, encodes key moves, and shows what success can look like. But in practice, we do far more than just model outcomes. buff.ly/V2D0nZd
An example of a 6 week cycle of PD open.substack.com/pub/wagollteac…
Banning mobile phones in Dutch secondary schools has positive impact: ➡️ 75 % observe better concentration ➡️ 59 % note a more positive social atmosphere ➡️ 28 % see enhanced academic performance. ➡️ special educational settings saw benefits too Primary schools, which…
To use research-informed strategies effectively, primary teachers must balance the science of learning with how primary school children develop. buff.ly/mnGODlM
A learning model that shows how memory and environment work together and reflects how children truly learn in EYFS and Primary. buff.ly/ChdQygj
It's out there in the flesh! 💥 Well done @lamb_heart_tea
If you want to know more about Scaffolding to support your students, grab yourself a copy of @lamb_heart_tea and @MrsBallAP’s 🆕 book 👇 amazon.co.uk/Scaffolding-Ef… (If you’re at #EducationFest, you might be able to nab an early copy at the Crown Publishing stand… 👀)