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ERRR #058. Sam Sims on What makes effective Professional Development

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How Do You Know if You've Got a Managed Cognitive Load?

We only count something as a genuine mechanism orlesa an active ingredient, if we can find causal evidence. There's really nice evidence from just kind of decades of work in quite basic psychology showing that goal setting helps motivates changes in practice. So for example, a state bowl setting. And these examples are ly quite far from education and teache pe d in particular, but that's the point. You know, if were,. if we can observe that goald setting has this effect on changing practice in other domains, then we can be more confident that it’s also going to be an active ingredient in the domain of teacher p d.

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