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didavon-moltke.bsky.social
"No lesson plan survives contact with the class". Prep and adaptivity are key. Italian humanities teacher based in Tuscany, interested in DI, di and teacher-led didactics. Take my pics with a grain of salt -and possibly humour. "You'll learn." is my motto.
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submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Italian "Prima superiore"'s history curriculum (=Year 10) goes from the birth of Sapiens to the Augustan age through the Mesopotamian archaic cultures, Egypt, Hebrews, the whole Greek civilization, Etruscans, Rome, bits of non-European cultures and more. A tad too much for 2 or 3 periods a week?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Only now I'm fully realizing how DI changed how I teach in these three years. Rapidly and profoundly, albeit I retain my approach. MWBs paved the way, then I expanded on P&T. This year I introduced countdowns for better pace and improved how approach shy students. LLMs are helping a lot, too. How?

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Not a fan of group work, I'll read

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

In my humble opinion, @edutopia.org’s take on facing cell phone distractions is wrong on so many levels. The best was to stop cell phone use is not gold stars and a ‘pass’ on doing homework or a low test score, but just banning their use during school hours #EduSky www.edutopia.org/video/facing...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Would like to know more

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

The Italian right-wing gov is introducing in Italian schools some stuff they must have eavesdropped from some conservative school expert. This ended up with the main expert of the minister saying: "Coercion has too bad a reputation". Great score for the leftists, thank you.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

“When you put it that way, it sounds painfully obvious: If a child knows a whole lot about a topic, they are more effective reading about and thinking about it than if they don’t know much about it.” @dtwuva.bsky.social at @jhueducation.bsky.social NAEP event: 1/

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

I do like the Confucian approach about intelligence, education and effort. But what about competitiveness? It's a huge waste. The winners get great prizes and surely deserve them, but, although the losers are very often very good, too, their efforts go wasted and bear no fruit -or so it seems 1/4

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

"Children who like to read and write tend to be better at it [..] Literacy skills impacted literacy enjoyment, but not the other way around." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36101942/

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

t.co/ecOPWjQykb Here’s a v different approach to classroom interaction to one shared recently on X with di & TLAC routines. 20 yrs old, but IMO the dialogue is beautifully handled & works so well for a subject like English/Media, as part of a range of repertoires - a v fruitful dialogic ‘episode’.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

This so embarrassing (not that Italy fares any better). "Research shows that effective use of technology drives pupil performance. [...] digital technology can accelerate learning by two to three months." "Two to three months" per what? No need to mention while heralding a digital revolution!

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

“…teaching is interesting because students are so different, but it is only possible because they are so similar.” - Dylan Wiliam

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

In at #1 and deservedly so... you'll want to add this to your collection. It is brilliant. @neilgilbride.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/dp/139838872...

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

"Abbot Elementary" exists no one ever told me before.

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

To read

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

wanna watch. Teaching more or less the same thing these days, but to older students.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Sounds sensible

submitted 163 days ago • 1 comment