Over the long weekend, I read Dylan Wiliam’s “Leadership for Teacher Learning. In order to remember what I read and formulate my thoughts, I make #booksnaps, using piccollage or snapchat. This post contains my key take-aways.
I also recommend that you listen to Ollie Lovell’s podcast in which he interviews Wiliam himself, it is a fantastic listen and it’s great to hear so many of the things that stood out for me while reading reflected back in the interview. Another good one to read is a post I wrote back in 2015, when Dylan Wiliam visited our school. I took detailed notes, there are photos of the slides and I made a simple resolution for myself which I have since party fulfilled (before class, prepare thoughtful and critical questions to ask students).
Below are the notes I took in booksnap form. You can download them all here in a PDF format.
Conclusion of Chapter 2 (p62): Teacher quality: Why it matters, what it is and how to get more of it.
Chapter 4, Formative Assessment
Chapter 4, Formative Assessment: The definition of formative assessment.
Chapter 4: Formative Assessment, the evidence for formative assessment (p111)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdVe5O7KBE
Chapter 5: Expertise, in teaching and elsewhere, p135
Chapter 5, Expertise in teaching and elsewhere.
Chapter 5: Expertise in teaching and learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxW6nrWwtc
In 1970 three American researchers, John E. Ware, Donald H. Naftulin and Frank A. Donnelly, designed an experiment to find out whether a brilliant delivery technique of a talk could so completely bamboozle a group of experts that they overlooked the fact that the content was nonsense. The result was the hilarious Dr Fox Lecture and the answer was: yes! The experts didn’t notice a thing. Read the full story here: http://www.weirdexperiments.com.
