David Schley from the charity Sense About Science discusses a series of guides to help teachers become confident questioners in the face of claims about new educational initiatives. Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at the expense of something else, be that time, effort, another part of the curriculum, or money. It is important to understand whether adopting a new educational initiative is worth it. In this episode, David Schley of the charity Sense About Science talks with Hamish Chalmers about an initiative to provide educators with key questions to ask when faced with decision about whether to adopt a new educational initiative. The episode is accompanied by a Questioning Guide for teachers, which can be downloaded from the Oxford Education Deanery website.
Download a copy of the questioner’s guide: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/resources/
Learn more about Sense About Science: https://senseaboutscience.org
Learn more about the confident questioners initiative and see guides from other areas: https://senseaboutscience.org/ask-for-evidence/questioning-guides/
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David Schley from the charity Sense About Science discusses a series of guides to help teachers become confident questioners in the face of claims about new educational initiatives. Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at the expense of something else, be that time, effort, another part of the curriculum, or money. It is important to understand whether adopting a new educational initiative is worth it. In this episode, David Schley of the charity Sense About Science talks with Hamish Chalmers about an initiative to provide educators with key questions to ask when faced with decision about whether to adopt a new educational initiative. The episode is accompanied by a Questioning Guide for teachers, which can be downloaded from the Oxford Education Deanery website.
Download a copy of the questioner’s guide: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/resources/
Learn more about Sense About Science: https://senseaboutscience.org
Learn more about the confident questioners initiative and see guides from other areas: https://senseaboutscience.org/ask-for-evidence/questioning-guides/
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
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Developing Oral Language through a Drama-based Intervention (Transcript)
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Developing Oral Language through a Drama-based Intervention (Transcript)
Dr Faidra Faitaki discusses her research on using a drama-based intervention to help develop oral language proficiency among primary school learners. Oral language refers to the linguistic skills needed to understand and produce spoken discourse. Children’s oral language and communication skills at the earliest stages of education are good predictors of their later success at school. In this episode, Dr Faidra Faitaki discusses a pilot study she conducted explore the possibilities offered by drama-based activities in helping to support development oral language proficiency among primary school children. In addition to describing the study and discussing what she found, Faidra offers help to teachers who might not be natural performers, but who nonetheless want to explore the use of drama with young learners. This includes a free booklet of activities to try out in classrooms, developed out of this research.
The Deanery Digest (a plain language summary) of this research can be viewed and downloaded here: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/deanery-digest/developing-oral-language-through-a-drama-based-intervention/
Faidra’s Socials: Twitter @FaidraFait, BlueSky @faidra.bsky.social
Teacher resource pack of drama activities: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FFSL_Drama_Activities-Booklet.pdf
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David Schley from the charity Sense About Science discusses a series of guides to help teachers become confident questioners in the face of claims about new educational initiatives. Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at the expense of something else, be that time, effort, another part of the curriculum, or money. It is important to understand whether adopting a new educational initiative is worth it. In this episode, David Schley of the charity Sense About Science talks with Hamish Chalmers about an initiative to provide educators with key questions to ask when faced with decision about whether to adopt a new educational initiative. The episode is accompanied by a Questioning Guide for teachers, which can be downloaded from the Oxford Education Deanery website.
Download a copy of the questioner’s guide: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/resources/
Learn more about Sense About Science: https://senseaboutscience.org
Learn more about the confident questioners initiative and see guides from other areas: https://senseaboutscience.org/ask-for-evidence/questioning-guides/
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
Join our mailing list: https://education.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2b84fd25801a8e6f131fdf744&id=1a0dba83bc
