Year 1 Teacher | Minimalist | Gym Junkie | Living the Dream
Hong Kong
Joined November 2016
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Steve Thin retweeted
Somehow we've reached a point in education where:
- teaching kids explicitly is controversial
- academic rigour is treated as a threat to student wellbeing
- memorizing math facts is discouraged or considered unnecessary
- practice is dismissed as "drill and kill"
Low expectations are not kindness, and nothing hurts someone's confidence more than falling further behind every year.
Steve Thin retweeted
🚨 Why are students getting worse at math?
CBC has just released an excellent audio documentary on math. It looks at declining math scores, problems with education research, and what needs to change with the way math is taught.
Please listen and share. Let’s fix math.
🎧 Listen to the inverview below
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Episode 1 of Sold a Story, Season 2: apmreports.org/episode/2026/…
It's Not Just Reading
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What are the most effective methods of improving student achievement? An NYT investigation.
For me, the data point in the bottom left quadrant is absolutely critical to understanding why student achievement goes wrong so often: teachers making up their own curriculum.
nytimes.com/2026/09/28/upsho…
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Now that our families have seen it I can show you guys Montessorium’s 2026 classroom
The more intelligent our technology gets, the more pressure we place on grades to prove something. -Tom Schimmer #etc2026 #earcos2026 #etc2026bkk
Last primary assembly of the @CISHK school year! #cishk #hongkong #schoolsout #summerbreak #restup #grateful
A fun end of the year activity that would make any teacher laugh! I’m going to miss this class! #cishk #year19ofteaching #goodlaughs
Steve Thin retweeted
I've decided to start writing blogs again, but on my own website. This first one is on what makes a great maths curriculum. Please share! And let me know what else you'd like me to write about bradnguyen.com/blog/what-mak…
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.@tombennett71 on what good schools do to manage behavior successfully. #rEDNYC
“The reason we want children to behave isn’t because we want them to be compliant, it’s because we want them to be successful.” @tombennett71 @researchED_US
#rEDNYC
A big thanks to @Cedes25 for sharing his story with our Y1 students! #cishk #chriscederstrand #inspiration
Great to have @desertclimber and @MsJanePYP come to our classroom to show and allow the students to explore bee-bots! #cishk
Thank you to @litfest_hk and @MapleLam for visiting our Y1 classroom to share her experience about being an author and illustrator! #cishk #hklitfest #HKILF2025
Steve Thin retweeted
Feeling frustrated that your students can read words but not spell them? Or unsure how to integrate spelling into your daily literacy block?
Check out my latest #SORShowAndTell video! I use SOS spelling to teach my students how to spell words! Focusing on the phonemes in words and mapping the grapheme to its phoneme is a more effective way to teach spelling than memorizing lists of whole words.
This is the video I used last week with @MrZachG and @sstollar6; we dissected the lesson and described the importance of explicit instruction AND modelling, with gradual release of responsibility to build students’ independent spelling skills and confidence! ❤️
Link to video: youtube.com/shorts/BjzAW9PJi…
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Fascinating tension between nature and nurture.
Whatever a child’s nature is like, you have to brave as if all that matters is nurture.
Steve Thin retweeted
I just published a blog on reading fluency. Defining, assessing and teaching. Looking forward to comments!
medium.com/inspired-ideas-pr…
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Something magical happens when children play and learn outdoors #outdooreducation #habitats #biodiversity #stewardsoftheplanet
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. @learning2 @apapaseit
