Alex / ECT Mentor / MA Teaching Studies / Author of The New Teacher's Survival Guide
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I am thrilled to be able to announce that my new book, 'The New Teacher's Survival Guide', is now available!
From ice-breakers to assessment, behaviour to lesson planning, this guide covers everything you need to succeed in education! #edutwitter
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The Helpful Teacher retweeted
Pochettino must have the best agent in football
He's won nothing of note. He failed to win the league with PSG one year
How does he keep getting big jobs?
Parent (2:13am): Enjoy my 60-page AI generated complaint. Oliver felt “micro-aggressed” when you told him to put his phone away. It cites 47 laws and demands your suspension. Sweet dreams 😈⚖️📩
Teachers: Dealing with this *cannot* be our job! 🤯
#Edchat #edutwitter
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Pochettino must have the best agent in football
He's won nothing of note. He failed to win the league with PSG one year
How does he keep getting big jobs?
The Helpful Teacher retweeted
Some people in the comments here don't understand 'influential' doesn't mean 'their personal favourite'
#BookTwitter #BookLovers
The three most influential writers of every century:
16th century
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Michel de Montaigne
17th century
John Milton
Molière
John Donne
18th century
Voltaire
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
19th century
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Dickens
20th century
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
Gabriel García Márquez
21st century
J.K. Rowling
Haruki Murakami
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is my selection based on literary influence, cultural impact and enduring readership.
Who deserves to be replaced? And which writer have I criminally left out?
How do we tackle the learned helplessness we're currently seeing in our students?
The inability to do the basics necessary to facilitate learning?
#edutwitter
The Helpful Teacher retweeted
1) But, Helpful, how can Inclusion be a bad thing?
When it's used as a buzzword to push agendas by Leaders who don't really understand what Inclusion is
Let me explain...
#edutwitter #teachersofX #EdChat
1) But, Helpful, how can Inclusion be a bad thing?
When it's used as a buzzword to push agendas by Leaders who don't really understand what Inclusion is
Let me explain...
#edutwitter #teachersofX #EdChat
10) But if you think about it, the families in this situation who were earning more, paying more taxes, and paying for this school to run and operate- were the same ones seeing their children targeted and disadvantaged by said school's policy
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9) I am yet to meet a teacher who cares how wealthy their students' families are. They shouldn't even know
It should go without saying that no student should be advantaged or disadvantaged in the classroom based on their income
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8) In this instance, not only are we not being inclusive, we're often disadvantaging the minority students in the room, the non-PP students
And it gets worse, the policy also said the PP students should get written feedback first
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7) But, Helpful, surely you'll take their question/answer after you've spoken to the PP student?
This particular setting was in a low-income area. It would not be uncommon for 5 or 6 PP hands to go up at the same time as a couple non-PP students
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6) Through no fault of their own, based on something as arbitrary as their parent's income, which they have no control over, the non-PP student is being told they cannot interact in the lesson. They may be sat in a back corner where they can hardly see the lesson
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5) By advantaging these students, we are disadvantaging others. If a PP student raises their hand to answer a question at the same time as another student, policy dictates the teacher has to pick the PP student - every lesson
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4) This policy asked we sit the PP students in the best seats in the classroom, usually at the front with the best views of the board, and that we picked the PP students first to answer questions
Are you seeing how this can go wrong?
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3) Now lets examine an Inclusion Policy. This is one example I have seen, but there are many
In a previous setting, we were asked to adhere to a 'Pupil Premium First' inclusion policy. For those who dont know, Pupil Premium students are usually those from low income backgrounds
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2) Inclusion means 'to include a person or group'. In the classroom, this is usually agreed to mean to make sure everyone is equal and can access their learning
I'm yet to see a teacher ever not do this, naturally, without being asked to follow any Inclusion policies
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Some people in the comments here don't understand 'influential' doesn't mean 'their personal favourite'
#BookTwitter #BookLovers
The three most influential writers of every century:
16th century
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Michel de Montaigne
17th century
John Milton
Molière
John Donne
18th century
Voltaire
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
19th century
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Dickens
20th century
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
Gabriel García Márquez
21st century
J.K. Rowling
Haruki Murakami
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is my selection based on literary influence, cultural impact and enduring readership.
Who deserves to be replaced? And which writer have I criminally left out?
The Helpful Teacher retweeted
The problem isn't whether or not it's working as intended. It's the fact buzzwords like 'inclusion' dictate policy at all. What does it mean? When has is ever not been done? We should focus on behaviour and results, not soft benchmarks than can never be measured and met
As if I wasn't already excited enough to visit George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art - what a guy!
#edutwitter #GeorgeLucas
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