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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · 15d

All teacher training ultimately aims to support transfer of learning to new and varied classroom situations.

In this (recently published) paper we provide some of the first experimental evidence on how teacher educators can help achieve this goal:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decomposition and recomposition: effects on early-career teachers’ enactment and adaptive transfer of behaviour management practices

Breaking down sequences of teaching into constituent practices is thought to make learning to teach more manageable. However, it also divorces teaching practices from context, which risks leaving t...

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · 21d

Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen.

Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.

worksinprogress.co/print

Print - Works in Progress Magazine

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · 28d

How can democrats justify continuing to fund an authoritarian takeover of the federal government?

open.spotify.com/episode/5kpn...

If Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Sep 3

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are you interested in teacher coaching, simulation, transfer of training?

Join us at 11am (online) for this talk on Thursday. Sign up using the link below:

ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · Aug 29

Across subjects and grades (6th-college) prequestions improve learning--new evidence from real classrooms (open) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks to @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social for supporting this work!

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Aug 29

The @theeef.bsky.social recommends schools use teaching assistants (TAs) to deliver evidence-based interventions

This research, led by my colleague Briony Banks, sets out the options and provides advice for school leaders on how to choose between them

www.ambition.org.uk/teaching-ass...

A review of evidence-based teaching-assistant-led interventions

Our latest research helps you to improve the impact that teaching assistants have on pupils’ academic outcomes. Download to discover the most effective teaching-assistant-led interventions.

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Aug 28

Teachers who made more/better use of classroom routines had students with measurably higher (indicators of) attention in their lesson

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why do students exhibit different attention-related behavior during instruction? Investigating effects of individual and context-dependent determinants

To determine the success of their instruction, teachers need to rely on observable cues in students' behavior. However, students exhibit different att…

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hopefully this link works better: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A cornerstone of adaptivity – A meta-analysis of the expertise reversal effect

Different learners thrive under different instructional conditions, thus requiring adaptivity. Such differential effects became known as aptitude-trea…

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Aug 12

New meta-analysis of expertise reversal effect: lower prior knowledge learn more from higher instructional guidance; higher prior knowledge learn less

Differences in effects of guidance for low-high knowledge groups (60 studies) supports theory:

Tetzlaff et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 6

I am generally a big fan of the BBC - but this is a truly terrible 'both sides' *push notification* to send out to people in this country about this news event

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Jul 31

How should we train new teachers?

New research from @drsamsims.bsky.social suggests breaking teaching sequences into parts, then recomposing them in new contexts, helps teachers adapt better than learning whole sequences from the start.

Read more here: 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decomposition and recomposition: effects on early-career teachers’ enactment and adaptive transfer of behaviour management practices

Breaking down sequences of teaching into constituent practices is thought to make learning to teach more manageable. However, it also divorces teaching practices from context, which risks leaving t...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is unreal

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hi Bluesky 👋🏻

Is there anyone out there who a) knows how to write basic C++ scripts and b) might be interested in joining a research project looking at behaviour/attention in the classroom?

Estimated two days of work in total. You would be a coauthor on the paper.

Please do get in touch!

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 22

“Flooding the zone” is designed to overwhelm the ability of traditional media and citizens to keep track of the intentional slide into authoritarianism. This website uses data to track it all:

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jul 21

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jul 21

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 20

Look forward to reading it. And thanks for all the super interesting posts so far!

Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 19

How about each dept reports an interval estimate, with choice over width of the interval? I think parents would understand framing ‘your child’s strongest work is at the top end of the interval, and their least strong work is at the bottom.’ Would also help with motivation by showing range/potential

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Adam Robbins @mrarobbins.bsky.social · Jul 14

Last time I will share one of these quotes for Unlocking Teacher Development. I've been blown away by the support and unexpected success of my little self-published book.

Here's what a proper smart person who thinks about teacher development as a job thinks:

Thanks @drsamsims.bsky.social

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jul 11

Such an interesting literature! I once got my whole family to fill out the systematising/empathising questionnaire!

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Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · Jun 18

This paper by Ludewig et al shows that quite a lot of the 2016-2021 PIRLs country score changes can be accounted for by changes in the home learning environment and duration of school closures during the pandemic

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reading literacy decline in Europe: Disentangling school closures and out-of-school learning conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study examines the decline in average reading literacy among elementary school students in European countries between 2016 and 2021, as documente…

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