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Welcoming the hurricane

•School NOT important, Classroom IS•Improved teacher quality = Improved achievement•6 months Vs 2 years•Disadvantaged students achieve at SAME rate

“The good news is, we make the difference….…..the bad news is, we make the difference!”

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Rivkin, Hanushek and Kain (2005)from Dylan William’s Keynote at SSAT 2012 conference – based on 4 different models of measuring teacher quality

The “ok plateau”

Years of teaching experience

The choice is YOURS!

Plod or practice?

Ericsson’s “Iceberg illusion”

10000hours

Practice makes perfect?

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence therefore, is not an

act, but a habit

Deliberate practice...Requires:• Humility• Narrow focus• Considerable effort• Regular practice• Small/steady steps• Increased challenge• Grit• Resilience• Perseverance• Growth mindset• Commitment from school leaders

Looks like:• Reading/research• Share ideas• Reflection and thinking• Observe others/be observed• Analyse best practice• Isolate skills / integrate• Peer/coach feedback• Record what does/doesn’t work• Repetition/tweaking

…IS HARD!

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Pareto principle

http://classteaching.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/the-evolution-of-the-big-4/

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorentz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks earlier.

Butterfly effect

Further reading

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