Shaun Brien
A blog about inclusive teaching through explicit teaching practices and reflecting on past problems of practice.
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Strat Chat - Document Cameras/Visualisers (opens the original)
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Full disclosure, I first purchased a document camera in 2025 after reading a post from Brad Nguyen explaining how useful they are to teaching practice. After purchasing the camera, I only used it once or twice in the rest of that year as I really struggled with functionally working out how to seamlessly embed it into the lesson without there being clunky, inefficient transitions where student attention could be lost. It wasn’t until I saw Dr Nathaniel Swain presenting at researchED in Melbourne
Ex(pert) marks the spot (opens the original)
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What qualities make an expert and how do you become one?This is the main topic which was being explored by Nidhi Sachdeva and Paul Kirschner on Anna Stokke’s Chalk & Talk podcast recently in the leader up to their book releasing on September the 30th ‘Becoming an Expert Teacher’.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q1L-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%
A conversation is not a consequence (opens the original)
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I’ve been shocked to hear that the explicit teaching/science of learning side of the educational debate has been increasingly labelled as right wing in ideology. Right wing?!Subscribing to this Substack is considered good behaviour to me. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary" type="submit"
Getting Tier 1 Write (opens the original)
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Disclaimer: this post originated almost exclusively because of the wordplay in the title… that wordplay led to the reading and summarizing of 3 books, completing 3 free AERO courses on writing as well as practicing implementing my learnings into some of my senior exam revision lessons. Writing homophone-based puns is dangerous business to your free time. Although many have started implementing multi-tiered systems of support in education, there have been significant lethal mutations occurring wh
Privileging the privileged (opens the original)
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Despite how it may seem, I don’t always listen to and read content related to education. That’s right, I have other interests too! gasps On a recent drive to work I was listening to Wilosophy where Australian comedian Wil Anderson interviews comedians and people of merit (or often promoting a project) about their approach to life. In this instance he was interviewing Ben McKenzie, an actor1 turned filmmaker and anti-cryptocurrency advocate whom despite being somewhat typecast as an attractive bu
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