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olicav.bsky.social
oliver caviglioli
@olicav.bsky.social
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Information designer of education schemas and mental models. Author of Dual Coding with Teachers, co-author of Organise Ideas, and The Extended Mind. Co-creator of Teaching WalkThrus book and resources. Websites:
olicav.com | walkthrus.co.uk
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Coaching develops — as in team coaching. Business was there more than a decade ago (see J Britton's From One to Many: Best Practices for Team & Group Coaching).
Make it less personal but more personally beneficial as common problems & new solutions emerge from the team.
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Look what I found: my highlighted sentence from Jerome Bruner's 1971 Towards. Theory of Instruction.
Tell me this isn't a germinal notion of cognitive load.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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According to CLT's redundancy effect ("multiple sources of info can be understood separately"), the RHS diagram is not needed; causes overload in fact.
But some learners need both. Larkin & Simon (1987) concluded that diagrams often are more computationally efficient. Use both.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Feedback: not one and done.
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Attempt | run through the 5 steps
Develop | add details in relation to your context
Adapt | tweak to personalise the technique
Practise | try, evaluate, adjust as you go
Test | measure the impact, gain insights.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Coaches help identify real classroom challenges by offering an additional perspective: observing where students are struggling, offering practical tools for visits, data and videos to build insight, test hunches and explore learning problems.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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No, movement doesn't replace thinking. But it can hold information at no cognitive cost and to the benefit of retrieval.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Modelling strategies (representation), breaking them down into chunks (decomposition) and adapting them (approximation) to suit different contexts is how expertise in teaching happens. Let @walkthrus.bsky.social RUs do a lot of this work.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Our thinking and actions stem from what we see happening in the classroom. But what if we aren’t seeing clearly? This is where coaches offer an indispensable additional perspective.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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I thought you might find this collection of quotes from the CLT stable interesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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In the Coaching WalkThrus book, @MattTeachCoach clarifies — really well — the nature & central role of mental models in developing the cognitive aspect of teaching.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Given that Richard Mayer asserts that we learn best with a combination of words and images, it's essential that we consider of the quality of execution. And none better to remind us than Clark & Lyons (in their 500+ page ultimate research compendium).
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I'd say this is THE blog of the year. When real replication comes in education, hubris often follows.
So, of course, strive to be evidence-informed but, please, a little less confidence & pride when describing one's practice.
Bravo to @C_Hendrick.
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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We’re all humans, engaged in learning. Successful coaching is as dependent on a common model of learning as successful teaching. It helps illuminate struggles and offers insights to unblock habit change and confusion.
October 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Coaching is difficult without a shared understanding of pedagogical techniques that solve learning problems. WalkThrus creates a common language to improve feedback and reduce miscommunication.
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The weekend's robbery at le Louvre promoted me to reread Edgar P Jacob's (a former colleague of Hergé) wonderful The Affair of the Necklace.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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When lesson observations, co-constructed feedback and action planning, are all referenced to a common model of learning, teacher learning really shifts. Harness this power of alignment with WalkThrus.
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Hit the EEF’s 14 mechanisms, in four areas, by integrating coaching with other PD activities. WalkThrus offer the common language and understanding to align activities.
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Managed it despite no practice, more or less, these past two years.
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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About to sketchnote live, listening to a song with words about me and my work!!! Amazing.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This may not be what SLT want to hear.
October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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If as @DanWillingham explained in @teacherhead & @Emma_Turner75's Mind The Gap podcast last week, causal thinking is at the heart of effective teaching, learn more at my The Professional Mind presentation in Edinburgh.
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Matching problem to capability.
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Beware the misuse of the term 'alignment', used to disguise rigid, consistent, high-fidelity uniformity, directed by decades-outdated Command-and-Control management systems.
October 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM