The Idiosyncratic Classroom

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Stretching Imagination
Growing this important disposition
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Bevan Holloway
Helping learners respond to feedback
So they can stretch their Thinking muscle
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Bevan Holloway
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Fences
When I was a child our fence separated town from country. Climb it, and I was in a paddock dotted with sheep. There was a shallow gully that ran…
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Bevan Holloway
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Small ups, big downs
The tide seems to be turning against what I believe
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Bevan Holloway
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The classroom is a political space
There's nothing neutral about our pedagogical choices.
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Bevan Holloway
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Do you want learners who are masterful?
“Would you like to …?” It’s an invitation to the learner. They’re free to decline. But they don’t, because the chance to talk about what they’ve done is…
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Bevan Holloway
Canaries in the coalmine
Growing and learning in a time of turbulence
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Bevan Holloway
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Insourcing
Reducing robotic dependency and increasing agency.
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Bevan Holloway
Change
I've gone quiet for longer than I said, and that's because I've been thinking about why I've been feeling stuck in a rut with On Learning.
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Bevan Holloway
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Willingness
It's essential for the development of self-awareness
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Bevan Holloway
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
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Bevan Holloway
There is more than one 'science' of learning
Dear reader, Hours and hours my son spends, shuffling through cards, be they your typical deck of playing cards or other kinds made for specific games…
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Bevan Holloway
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Popular Information
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Published Pieces
Living in a small data world: play in secondary school
CORE Education fellowship report
Creative agency in action
Play: a secondary concern
SET Journal, December 2018
Doing well: integrating wellbeing initiatives with academic imperatives
Literacy Forum NZ Vol 35 no2 2020
Using learning stories in secondary school English
Found in Guy Claxton's book Powering up students: the learning power approach to high school teaching

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