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Gary Snapper

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Departmental Lecturer in English Education @OxfordDeptofEd / Trustee, Editor and Publications Officer @NATEfeed / Fellow @EngAssoc.
Oxford gabrielsnapper.co.uk Joined September 2017
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Gary Snapper @gabrielsnapper
“Retrieval is too important to be reduced to a starter activity. The challenge for expert teachers is not simply to ensure that pupils remember. It is to design experiences that require pupils to remember at precisely the moments when remembering matters.” YES! YES! YES!
Mark McCourt @EmathsUK Jun 14
NEW BLOG: Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity

emaths.co.uk/blog/general-e…
Illustrated blog banner for an education article titled Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity. A teacher leads a discussion with pupils while a mathematical problem involving trigonometry is displayed on a whiteboard. The scene emphasises the use of prior knowledge to solve new problems, with visual references to retrieval, method selection, connection-making and application. The design conveys the idea that retrieval is most powerful when embedded naturally within the story of learning rather than used as a disconnected classroom routine.
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Gary Snapper @gabrielsnapper
This,from the EMC, is incredibly important.
Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman May 7
This blog shares one teacher's bleak experience of a curriculum imposed from above. Emails from anxious, demoralised teachers come to EMC quite often & suggest that it's a growing problem that needs urgent discussion. If it's an issue for you, let us know. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/how-a-mat…
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