Research Bite #62: They keep on learning: Teachers’ pedagogical/psychological knowledge increases over 15 years in the teaching profession Nikolaus Bönke, Talha Sajjad, Thamar Voss

Research Bite #62: They keep on learning: Teachers’ pedagogical/psychological knowledge increases over 15 years in the teaching profession
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Come offline, and listen slowly with me Come offline, and listen slowly with me

**NEW POST**

I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead.

To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing.

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[4K] 한 편의 영화, 말러 교향곡 제5번 G. Mahler / Symphony No.5 정명훈 지휘(2026.3.13.) YouTube video by KBS교향악단

Mahler 5 KBSSO/Myung-Whun Chung (Mar 2026). A really wonderful performance with some of the wackiest editing. Kate Wooley's horn solo is something else.

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Lexington and Concord Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is the most famous poem about the American Revolution, but it’s mostly myth.

Lexington and Concord
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Beginning Readers Need Language, Not Fragments You do not start young children with fake parts.

Beginning Readers Need Language, Not Fragments
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The Disappearance of Existential Frameworks And Why This Matters

The Disappearance of Existential Frameworks
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I lived next to this for seven years. Our son learned to walk on the trails. Happy times

So I have a teaching paradox—now what? Teaching paradoxes can't be solved—only navigated. Smith, Lewis, and Kennedy show why both/and thinking matters most.

So I have a teaching paradox—now what?
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Aristotle's Lagoon dai.ly/x6k9yl5

House of Bamboo (dir. Sam Fuller, 1955)

Why grades are misleading But grade probabilities are better!

Why grades are misleading
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Does Individualism Make Children More Anxious? What a Global Study Really Shows A large international study links cultural change to anxiety in young people. But the results are nuanced. Here is what the research shows.

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How to Use NotebookLM Deep Research to Teach Research Skills in the Classroom One plan. Five skills. Students research something real from day one.

How to Use NotebookLM Deep Research to Teach Research Skills in the Classroom
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Tom Johnson · Save My Beer: Industrious Revolution Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

‘𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬 is valuable precisely because it offers a view of the early modern economy that isn’t defined by productivity and growth but in the terms conceived by the “great multitude of workmen” themselves.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern work
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Paperback copies of William Golding The Inheritors; John Christopher Death of Grass; Alan Garner Elidor; Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore

In March I revisited the Inheritors and Offshore. Loved Elidor, terrified by Death of Grass and drunkenly lurched between reading and listening to Under the Volcano. Thank you @backlisted.bsky.social

This looks juicy and will, I'm sure, offer the more nuanced, finely-observed side of cognitive science, beyond the merely behavioural instantiation (that is temptingly simple to understand and convert into evaluation checklists).

Performance Is Not Learning Why behaviorism still distorts literacy instruction, and why Structured Word Inquiry offers a different path

Performance Is Not Learning
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Learning at the Edge of Understanding Correct answers are a lagging indicator of learning, not the mechanism.

Learning at the Edge of Understanding
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Developing others in uncertainty Uncertainty in schools is like trying to teach Macbeth while the fire alarm’s going off: everyone’s in the room, but the vibe is 90% panic, 10% “Will this be on the exam?”, and you’re pretty sure the ...

Developing others in uncertainty
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Critical thinking, expertise and intelligence And that's the correct educational order

Critical thinking, expertise and intelligence
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"Orthographic Skeletons”: Can children start learning how a word is spelled before they've seen it in print? Why oral vocabulary predicts reading ability.

Orthographic Skeletons: Can Children Start Learning How Words Are Spelled Before They've Seen it in Print?
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What if teacher understanding is really a matter of habit? Most professional development still rests on a fairly simple model of learning: Explain something clearly enough, model it, add a little practice and understanding will follow.

What if teacher understanding is really a matter of habit?
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Explanations are not what we say. They are what pupils understand. One of the more damaging myths in teaching is the idea that explanation is somehow natural.

Explanations are not what we say. They are what pupils understand.
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We never had it so simple: Why the opposition between standards and belonging is easy to assert but hard to prove A critique of the evidence on attainment, wellbeing and school belonging

We never had it so simple: Why the opposition between standards and belonging is easy to assert but hard to prove
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How do schools respond when students are bullied?
A review of 74 studies shows three patterns: punishment is common, supportive approaches less so, and sometimes teachers simply do not intervene.
The answer lies in school culture and context.
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Q&A: Why are a child’s first 1,000 days so critical for brain building? Many parents think the school years matter most for neurological development, but a UVA expert says the biggest gains start much earlier.

"During the first 1,000 days, the brain builds itself at a breathtaking pace, forming up to a million neural connections per second..." news.virginia.edu/content/qa-w...

The Biggest "F*** You" Ending to a Symphony Ever YouTube video by David Bruce Composer

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