Curriculum, learning and teaching
High Performance Learning: Building the cognitive competencies that we know lead to high performance We know what is possible and we know how to make it possible, writes Deborah Eyre Though traditionally we have assumed that high performance for all students was an impossible pipe dream, now it seems it could be possible – so in forward-looking schools this ambition will inevitably shape their work. Of course many teachers still think that everyone doing well is impossible, and that they are doing as well as they can – given the class Winter
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they are teaching. But it is worth remembering that there was a time in the past when educators thought girls could not achieve as highly as boys. We thought it was genetic because that’s what most psychologists believed. We also thought that students working in a second language would be unlikely to do as well as their monolingual peers. And
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