English teacher. Misadventurer. Advocate for critical thought.
England, United Kingdom
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‘Public sector workers are being penalised by reductions in their pay for reasons that do not bear up to scrutiny. Public sector pay increases do not translate into higher inflation.’ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
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New Blog Post... Thriving Teams #3: Psychological Safety. How and why you should build psychological safety in your teams
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🚨How can you *speed up pupil learning* using their prior knowledge (schemas)?
Take just 5 mins to read about how schemas can catalyse learning🧠!
Then, see how this underpins 3 pieces of advice for teachers.
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Michael Rosen’s message to teachers - via the NEU.
Thank you Michael.
youtu.be/_uOThs4HDHI
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Help us to understand our brain's dictionary!! This word association study only takes 5 min of your time, it´s fun and you can use any device 📱💻
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Please RT! No age limits.
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Teachers deserve better!! Every teacher can now get free, anonymous emotional support from MeeToo Connect.
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We Need to Reboot This Year! linkedin.com/pulse/we-need-r… via @LinkedIn
With one of the earliest school starts in the world it is well within our power to give back the #SchoolYearCovidStole
Join me in calling on government to #Reboot20_21
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***NEW POST***
How Radio 1 helps me to teach all about the literary canon. codexterous.home.blog/2021/0…
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Expect a lot more of this......
Ill timed attack on #teachers by someone close to No10 after all that #schools are doing, but perhaps tells us what #Boris really thinks? Instead of writing about the “NEU problem” @JGForsyth perhaps engage with teachers, all hugely committed to children’s success? #r4today
Case by case I guess. Will work for some departments - clearly. The idea of building community and belonging is a noble one though!
You are lucky to have that community in your department. It isn’t always replicated... I think SLT would be cautious of this as they recognise the need for staff to communicate - their presence can skew this.
No. I need a barrier from work. Plus, I already feel inundated with email and SMHW, no need to add WhatsApp to the onslaught. Do you see benefits?
Definitely agree re GandT and back filling for students. Regardless of decisions at a national level - we will need to rethink curriculum from here on to support gap fill and flexible and ‘radical’ leaders will be more effective at adapting to learning needs after COVID.
I totally agree that we need to think again about how we do this and what’s best for students and society - I am not the visionary, sure on practicalities of how.
Great points. The problem is in consistency of education provision and essentially admitting that we need to separate and classify students’ achievement in a convenient way for future workplaces. How would you solve that?
Suspect the how is nearly impossible to answer. But I applaud the opportunity to see this year as a chance to rethink and improve education. Worth discussing.
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This is the truth we all knew. Well done to all of those who pushed for this data to be released.
tes.com/news/exclusive-teach… – at Brentwood, East