Season One, Episode Five:
Elliot Morgan

Key Lesson features ​

• Direct instruction (not Engelmann)

• Explicit vocabulary instruction

• Accessible and challenging for all – low entry, high exit

• Depth of knowledge

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Task Design takeaways

• Understanding context and time

• Must define tasks first

• Is knowledge constructed or transmitted?

• Three part cycle – instruction, task and assessment

• So task design is... content, pedagogy, resources, time, cognitive science

• Extension of instructional phase

• End result

• Product or process

• Specific methodology - Scaffolding/differentiation 

• Consider general principles – accessibility, challenge, retrieval etc

• During learning walks and observations, focus more on tasks

• fun ≠ learning

• engagement - the content itself and how you present it 

• Performance vs learning – short and long term

• Lethal mutations

• Mary Myatt = less content more depth (mastery)

• Use good models – high quality textbooks

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Thunderbolt Research Paper: Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching

Every primary teacher should read: Learning vs Performance

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