The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is a logical fallacy based on the metaphor of a gunman shooting the side of a
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The Frayer Model
The ‘Frayer model‘ is a well-used and familiar graphic organiser and an effective model for introducing or exploring existing vocabulary.
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The Rashomon Effect in the Playground
The Rashomon effect is a term related to the notorious unreliability of eyewitnesses. The witnesses’ unreliability and subjectivity are a
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The Sworn Statement
How do you hold students accountable for their reading? If you are a smart teacher teaching smarter then you will
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The Pollyanna Principle
How often do you play the ‘glad game’? Pollyanna played it all the time and it would do us all
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Teachers And The Pratfall Effect
Teachers need to make deliberate mistakes. You will probably make enough naturally but it’s worth going out of your way
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DJ Teachers
I came across a sketchplanation by Jono Hey about what a good teacher is: Now this is spot on and
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The Streisand Effect
The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the
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Lighting Bonfires
Do you have a chit-chat over a kit-kat when it’s breaktime or do you squirrel yourself away in your classroom?
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How To Grow Your Own Fresh Air
How do you grow your own fresh air? Plants. With plants of course. But not just any old plant. Specific
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