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Ok my mind is blown, and I can't be the only teacher out there.
Did you know learning styles is actually an educational myth?
Daniel Willingham breaks it down for us in 4 key points 🧵👇
Vince Boley
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Vince Boley
@VinceBoley
Teacher | Fulfilling E.D Hirsch's Call to Action with Memes | Ambassador for @Freedom_in_Ed
Joined November 2024
- Recently, during my IEP meetings I've been asking parents direct questions about their child's screen time, sleep schedule, and if they have family dinners together. I then provide the data on the harms and benefits. Is this appropriate of me to ask or is it outside my role?
- I have an ambition to meme my way into informing people of Direct Instruction's superiority.
- Sitting at the YMCA watching my 3-year-old son receive explicit instruction in swimming. "Move your arms like this, show me hold your breath, kick your feet". All with practice, repetition, and constant positive feedback. This is the way we learn.
- I realize I'm a dude, but there is no reason on God's green earth why a classroom needs to look like the ones below 👇 Just gimme blank walls and desks in rows
- Direct Instruction gets a lot of hate from progressive educators. Why do you think this is?
- ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ E.D. Hirsch warned us back in the 1990s of "educational experts" misleading parents and teachers with buzzwords that actually produce the OPPOSITE of what they're supposed to achieve. Here are 4 of Hirsch's Paradoxes you NEED to be aware of... 🧵 👇
- Good Lord. This book is amazing, but I'm having to reread paragraphs like 5 times to understand. 10/10 would recommend this suffering.
- Student had a meltdown over not being chosen for a prize out of the reward box (random schoolwide drawing). Good opportunity for me to walk with him and talk about that we do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing, to become a better person and student--not for a
- Your daily reminder that Direct Instruction is how the human brain learns best.
- Have you heard of Rosenshine's 10 Principles for educators? I hadn't, so I had to explore it. AND, boy, I'm glad I did. Here's 5 practical things I learned that all teachers can put into practice🧵👇
- Frederick Douglass, founding fathers, and many early Americans literally taught themselves how to read. Our kids today have the same capacity for learning as they did, but we're spending billions for pitiful results. Are we just insulating kids from discomfort and challenge?
- Teaching skills like "finding the main idea" is way less effective than just teaching knowledge.
