Two Stars and a Wish #11: Cold-calling; Scotland’s curriculum, and exclusions of autistic pupils

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A blog post on cold-calling

THE COLD-CALLING DEBATE: POTENTIAL PERILS, POTENTIAL SUCCESSES

I’m not usually a fan of nuance. I’m used to people calling for more nuance only where they are almost certainly wrong, and they want to confuse matters. However, I rather enjoyed this nuanced blog post about cold-calling, i.e. asking pupils to answer questions without getting them to volunteer. It doesn’t give any easy answers about whether we should use or avoid cold-calling in class, but it does explain why there may be no easy answers.

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