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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 3h

Managing your pupils cognitive load, can avoid them becoming easily distracted. Check out these 7 strategies from research to help you in those first few weeks of term.

www.impact.wales for more info on the professional learning we provide for teachers and schools. Or [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 13h

🚀 Three must-have books for every teacher!

📕The Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy - now available to pre-order - https://amzn.to/4oNZGnz
📗 Closing the Disadvantage Gap - https://amzn.to/47LBAni
📘 Power Up Your Pedagogy - https://amzn.to/4oTuLGp

Click the links to get your copies!

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 15h

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 20h

🎙️ On tomorrow’s Impact Podcast, we’re returning to the topic of questioning.

❓What’s the purpose of questioning, and how can you use questions effectively in the classroom?

🎧 impact.wales/podcasts

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

📬 Teachers in Wales—get blogs, resources, updates & honest takes on education straight to your inbox.
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

We create resources and professional learning for teachers using "best bets" from research, like the Bjorks' Desirable Difficulties research.

Support your pupils to build deep, resilient learning, that is impossible for them to forget. Find out what we do www.impact.wales.

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

What are the 3 most effective & useful learning strategies supported by research?

🧠Retrieval practice or quizzing
📅Spaced practice
✏️Combining visuals & language

Get in touch if you would like to know more about professional learning informed by research [email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 2d

Using a powerful analogy is a great way to simplify complex concepts for pupils.

Use the steps on our sketchnote ⬇️💥

If you'd like to know how we can partner with you to provide INSET, professional learning or research-informed resources contact us [email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 2d

The aim of teaching is to help learners make new connections and organise connections into meaningful schema. Share the cue that will help pupils recall and organise the learning.

Check out our sketchnote ⬇️Contact us for bespoke professional learning for teachers [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 2d

Leading Pedagogy Workshop – 20 Nov 2025, 9:30am–2pm

🔹 For middle leaders & aspiring pedagogy leads
🔹 Explore research-informed strategies
🔹 Align with Estyn expectations
🔹 Develop a departmental/school-wide improvement plan

£295 + VAT (1st) | £195 + VAT (additional)
👉

Leading Pedagogy Workshop -20/11/25

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 3d

Every Weds during term time we publish a podcast episode on a range of current educational topics.
You can listen to the latest and all of our previous episodes here: impact.wales/podcasts or just search 'The Impact Podcast' on whichever podcast platform you use. Simples!

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 3d

🧠 Pupils remember more when they organise what they learn. Mandler’s Organisation Theory shows categorising knowledge boosts recall + retention.

👉 Teachers: do you use sorting/organising tasks? Which work best in your classroom?

#TeachingAndLearning #CognitiveScience

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

Plaid will announce plans today to improve standards of reading by introducing "a Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Plan to set national benchmarks, provide targeted support, and introduce consistent methods of tracking pupils’ progress."

This will definitely be one to watch 🧐

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 4d

Plaid Cymru has announced a new strategy to improve literacy and numeracy across Welsh schools and address what it describes as a growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention

Plaid Cymru sets out new education plan to improve literacy and numeracy

Plaid Cymru has announced a new strategy to improve literacy and numeracy across Welsh schools and address what it describes as a growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention. At the party’s an...

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

What are 2 well replicated and robust research-informed "best bets" for improving learning?

1️⃣ Spaced practice
2️⃣ Retrieval practice

Include them both when you use the Leitner Flashcard Method with your pupils.

Contact us for professional learning [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

...5️⃣Self-explanation

Check out our sketchnote for worked examples & ideas on how to use them.

Contact us for more professional learning informed by robust international research: [email protected]
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

In his research Dunlosky et al (2013) identified 5 of the most robust & effective learning strategies you can use with your pupils:

1️⃣Practice testing aka retrieval practice
2️⃣Distributed practice aka spaced learning
3️⃣interleaved practice
4️⃣Elaborative interrogation...
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5d

This is excellent reporting from Rhys on the sorry state of reading standards & guidance for schools in Wales.

It clearly shows Welsh Government saying one thing but doing another 😡 whilst children are being failed.

Rhys Williams @rhyswilliamsnews.bsky.social · 5d

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This week the Welsh government announced £8m of funding for a national centre of excellence for literacy teaching - but a year since we raised concerns over reading provision in early reading it's not clear how much has changed in practice👇
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

£8million Welsh Government Grant awarded to Centre of Excellence for Literacy at Bangor University

The Welsh Government has awarded an £8 million grant to a Bangor University research project to found CAL:ON (Canolfan Addysgu Llythrennedd: Offer tuag at Newid / Centre for the Advancement of Literac...

www.bangor.ac.uk

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5d

The aim of teaching is to help learners make new connections and organise connections into meaningful schema. Share the cue that will help pupils recall and organise the learning.

Check out our sketchnote ⬇️Contact us for bespoke professional learning for teachers [email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5d

Leading Pedagogy Workshop – 20 Nov 2025, 9:30am–2pm

🔹 For middle leaders & aspiring pedagogy leads
🔹 Explore research-informed strategies
🔹 Align with Estyn expectations
🔹 Develop a departmental/school-wide improvement plan

£295 + VAT (1st) | £195 + VAT (additional)
👉

Leading Pedagogy Workshop -20/11/25

secure.smore.com

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 6d

Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research?

Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention

Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 Three must-have books for every teacher!

📕The Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy - now available to pre-order - https://amzn.to/4oNZGnz
📗 Closing the Disadvantage Gap - https://amzn.to/47LBAni
📘 Power Up Your Pedagogy - https://amzn.to/4oTuLGp

Click the links to get your copies!

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 7d

Is multi-cueing, or using pictures/context ever a good way to teach children to read?
Our sketchnote uses research & a touch of common sense to debunk the myth that multi-cueing is a good idea to use alongside or instead of Systematic Synthetic Phonics. #dowhatworks

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 7d

📬 Teachers in Wales—get blogs, resources, updates & honest takes on education straight to your inbox.
Join our Impact Wales mailing list today → app.smore.com/u/impa...
#WalesEd #ImpactWales #EduNews

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 8d

Why people are wired to believe what they want.

Teach your pupils to challenge their own beliefs by using the Risk Theory strategies on our sketchnote ⬇️

We provide research-informed professional learning for schools. Contact us [email protected] to find out more.

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 8d

NEW BOOK - Available for pre-order now on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4pqSeiq

Published on November 17th!

"The book is a triumph!!" Damian Benney, Headteacher Penyrheol Comprehensive School.