English Teacher | Reading Lead | NPQLL | studying MA Education (Keele) Exploring education through research, reflection and thoughtful questions.
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Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
🆕 #OECDPISA results, released today, show that student performance has declined across all three core subjects over the past decade. ⤵️
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
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Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
First two English re-marks are back. Increased by 12 and 16 marks. A difference of two grades from 3 to 5. How on earth are we supposed to know which grades to get checked? Report says clerical error. Why doesn’t that trigger a recall of all marks by that marker? Not good enough
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
As with all initiatives, value only comes as a result of adequate funding and robust implementation.
Schools will not receive dedicated funding for enrichment benchmarks, Tes can reveal, despite the expectation that revamped extracurricular activities must be provided from September
tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
In a recent newsletter poll, 92 teachers told me what stops them using mini-whiteboards consistently…
41% already use them regularly.
40% blamed logistics. Dried-out pens, boards going missing.
Only 13% cited routines or not knowing what to ask.
Barely anyone is stuck on the pedagogy. They’re stuck on the stationery cupboard.
Read the post here: newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
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Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
I've weighed in on the great vocational education debate.
From what we can see of the govt plans, I think they will repeat mistakes of the past.
Also, we need to retire the phrase "parity of esteem". It's not helping.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
Well the jury is in. @LucyMPowell is going to lower standards.
Too much pressure… yes- we have heard it all before. Dumb down the expectations.
Because expecting kids to know a quarter of the content of a maths GCSE is just too much pressure. 🙄
They have always used ‘the world of work’ as an excuse to dumb things down.
This is just more of the same coming from progressives. 🤯
Plus ca change…
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
Word of the day is a reminder of the lost positive ‘ruthful’ (13th century), in which ‘ruth’ means ‘compassion’.
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
When you realise it's ONLY Wednesday 😫 #TheComedyOfErrors
Who else's week has been a comedy of errors so far 🤣
📸 Marc Brenner
ALT The Company of The Comedy of Errors (2024, Globe Theatre) - onstage looking distraught and upset.
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
Teacher friends…. Are you sick of finding dried out whiteboard pens and having them nicked? Sick of the plastic waste? Loooooook!!!! You can get white board pencils for your mini whiteboards 😱😱😱 @STABILOUK you are amazing! I love them!
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
Shocker. Now look at this data again alongside how many children have access to a STAFFED school library and dedicated reading time in school. If children don't read at home, give them the means to read elsewhere.
More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals theguardian.com/books/2023/s…
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
“Dyslexic children need something else.” No, nope, no they don’t. Not until you understand just how many more repetitions they need can you understand that they don’t need “something else”. SSP is the very thing they need, you just need to accept you’re in it for the long haul.
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
If only there were adults living with the children who could take them instead.
Headteachers should pick up absent pupils from home, says education secretary Gillian Keegan
news.sky.com/story/gillian-k…
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
Prof Richard Wagner:
Primary concern to prevent reading difficulties is decoding; it is the most serious threat to reading achievement.
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Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
So if it wasn’t bad enough that AQA basically re-used a Q5 from a previous paper for LP2 today… the text they have chosen is also clearly sexist AND appears in an AQA revision guide. Pay for your grade then yeah?🤔🤪
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
"what works best for those who struggle more usually isn’t very different to what works best for everyone – it’s just they need more and better of it."
New. What does really helping the children who find learning harder mean for mainstream teachers like me?
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Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
*** 'Getting reading fluency right' ***
"Rather than pupils reading aloud at random – picking pupils because they have their hand up, or just to keep them focused – we should be more intentional about reading fluency practice and reading aloud."
theconfidentteacher.com/2023…
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
Word of the day, again, is ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century): one who loves to give their opinion on matters they know nothing about.
Heidi Jones | The Education Ground retweeted
New blog out today examining 'Is there an alternative to phonics?'
Spoiler alert 'not really'.
phonicsforpupilswithspeciale…
