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Teacher & traveller.Travelling days over for now. So many memories.Enjoying normal life & all that it brings.Teaching English brings me happiness. As does cake.

Joined November 2017
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I’ve shared a handful of sheets I’ve been proud of… but nothing like this! 😀 Here are 50+ of the most popular YouTube channels for teachers, all on one sheet, with free activities connected to their most popular videos 😎 docs.google.com/spreadsheets… Huge props to everyone who helped bring this one to life. Thank you! @waygroundai #edtech #edchat #teachers #letsfindaway #wayground #quizizz #teachertwitter
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My foldable bookmarks can be laminated and reused or printed on card/paper for close-skill practice, intervention & revisiting misconceptions. Structure: stan.store/secondaryenglish/… ‍Word + sentence types: stan.store/secondaryenglish/… Language methods: stan.store/secondaryenglish/…
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How to structure coaching conversations with @primarypercival @researchEDBrum #rEDBrum
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Giving students the WHY behind the writer's intentions. A great booklet to print a5 double sided or just snip small parts to turn into mindmaps, revision, enhance essays - do as you feel! #context #englishteacher #englishgcse stan.store/secondaryenglish/… #ECT
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How do you know whether to move on? Quality hinge questions tell you the misconceptions and what to do next. - If 80% have got it move on... less than 40% reteach - in the middle... capitalize on the moment of uncertainty to unpick it @researchEDBrum #rEDBrum @MrGoodwin23
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Are you looking to harness feedback and pupil understanding in the classroom to adapt your teaching? The new Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) ‘Check.Adapt’ tool offers a simple scaffold for reflection. Find it here: educationendowmentfoundation…
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘What teachers think about disciplinary literacy’ “As reading & writing success is synonymous with academic success, disciplinary literacy isn't a nice-to-have extra for teachers. Instead, it is fundamental to success for every student.” alexquigley.co.uk/what-teach…
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1/4 Checking for understanding is often framed as a way for teachers to decide what to do next. But that’s only half the story. Every time we ask students to retrieve, explain, or apply something new, we give them the chance to rehearse and consolidate what are, at that stage,
Checking for understanding isn’t just about helping the teacher decide her next steps; it helps students rehearse and consolidate fragile new learning. When all students think and participate, C4U dissolves the boundary between assessment and instruction. Join me @researchEDBrum
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📣 CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING! “If there’s one thing to get right in teaching, it’s Checking for Understanding.” This one-page guide breaks down how to thread CfU checks into every lesson — inspired by the ‘How Learning Happens’ work by @C_Hendrick and @HughesHaili newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
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If you are launching/exploring knowledge organisers at your school, this bundle is all you need for staff, students and parents: stan.store/secondaryenglish/… #memory #CPD #SLT #teachers #learning
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It's heartbreaking when a student invests time & effort into independent revision, but it doesn't pay off! A lot of revision fails because it feels productive: rereading, highlighting, & copying notes. But familiarity is not evidence of learning. Responsive Revision is built on a simple principle: Generate evidence. Diagnose gaps. Close them through targeted retrieval practice. Retrieve. 🧠 Diagnose.❓ Act. 📝 Repeat. 🔁
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This 👇Oracy should be so much more than a tick box exercise! This piece has great relevance to writing in secondary English too!
Where oracy is treated as a tick-box exercise in primary, this overlooks its massive potential to support pupils' writing, says teacher Louise Gaunson, who shares tips for bringing drama into lessons tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…
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Fascinating & thoughtful reflections on reading Jane Eyre as an adult—& through the lens of principles of the science of reading from my colleague & co-author @EricaWoolway. teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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Mark smart, not hard! This feedback bundle will reduce your feedback/feed-forward/#marking time by HOURS and HOURS! stan.store/secondaryenglish/… #stressedteacher #teachers #edutwitter #teacher
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Shrove Tuesday Ash Wednesday - beginning of Ramadan for some Thursday- Lent- beginning of Ramadan for all others A blessed time, indeed.
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As always, this was a fun conversation with @mommagordon2. I appreciate her continued willingness to amplify these kinds of teaching practices. Hinge questions on MWB are my #1 tool to elicit evidence of learning mid-lesson to then determine next steps for my instruction. The key is in the quality of the question and knowing what directions you may go based on expected student responses. Check it out and let me know your thoughts! 👇
Replying to @SoLInTheWild
@SoLInTheWild is back to discuss hinge questions and the use of mini whiteboards! Listen in on our next convo. S4E12: Mini Whiteboards w/ Brett Benson 👂🏻⬇️ buzzsprout.com/2292540/episo… @D99Cicero @ReadingLeagueIL @SoRclassroom @adamboxer1 @HKorbey
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