Unseen poetry. My approach for how to write about an unseen text is called: THREE things about THREE things, and you’ll find it explained in this blog here: funkypedagogy.com/unseen-poetry-… But there’s something else I do, too. 🧵 ⬇️

Nice reminder from Evidence Based Education sent out today about Instructional Coaching. Great blog by Robert Coe exploring the evidence and strategy around what is definitely the Biggest And Coolest Thing in teacher development at the moment evidencebased.education/why-arent-we-d…

Have placed this booklet online-20 mini practice Qs, all including a Q5, based on AQA English Language. Essentially there are mini extracts to do lots of independent practice with space to write. Ideal for tutor time/intervention/tutoring. laurawebbcpd.com/resources/#lan… Team English

It's been a while since I shared anything so here goes... A series of short 'Do Now' tasks based on exploring multiple interpretations in 'A Christmas Carol'. Instructions are in the PPT... a quick and easy way of exploring different readings of characters and quotations.

A signed copy of the wonderful Dr Khan Leadership’s book on young leaders. Very proud of all she has achieved 💕

The Persistent Blight of ‘Max Three Observations A Year’. teacherhead.com/2024/05/12/the…

Excellent blog by Gary Aubin on 'SEND strategies: Live by them, or death by them' "The best teachers I see do a few things well, in relation to the strategies they’ve been asked to implement for pupils with SEND." sendmatters.co.uk/2024/05/13/sen…

My next CPD session is applicable to literature and language, across all exam boards 🎯 I'm going to focus on improving student responses at a granular level, looking at each AO - lots of strategies to improve AO1-3 which can be immediately implemented. eventbrite.co.uk/e/913150135637…

Final CPD booklet of this Academic Year ✨ Booklet 6: Retrieval Focusing on research, reading & resources relating to: - Quizzing - Do Now - Prompts and Cues As always, a huge thanks to those who's work has inspired this and is included/referenced. dropbox.com/scl/fo/u38bd6u…

First new post in quite while >> Why bother with 'turn & talk'? learningspy.co.uk/featured/why-b…

roger federer on letting go and overcoming hard moments

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 'Adaptive teaching or reasonable adjustments?' "Happily... some of the reasonable adjustments offered to pupils with SEND that also appear to be adaptive teaching approaches can prove of great value, but at a low cost..." alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-teach…

It's that time of year again where I start to see people's school improvement plans for next year. If you are looking looking at metacognition, oracy, turn and talk, literacy, trauma informed practice or bits of individual theory from cognitive science, I'm not saying these

Our report 'Missing Mothers' in collaboration with The MTPT Project is out today. Read full report here - newbritain.org.uk/missing-mothers

Brilliant to see this report published to well deserved media coverage. I was pleased to be asked to contribute a case study from Didcot Girls' School to explore how we’ve been building an effective culture to support staff. newbritain.org.uk/_files/ugd/8be… www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co…

Summer book haul! 📚 😃 Where should I start?

Idyllic holiday setting- tenuously nautical current read! #summerbooks

There is so much more to classroom #modelling than 'I do, we do, you do'... #adaptive_teaching #Instruction jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/13/mod…

Everybody’s talking about oracy …: ‘Creating Confident Communicators’ - a thoughtful report on the topic by ⁦National Literacy Trust⁩: literacytrust.org.uk/policy-and-cam…

🚨 NEW BLOG 🚨 ‘Disciplinary talk’ “Disciplinary talk is a recognition that mathematicians, scientists, and geographers, communicate in subtly different ways, and that talk routines can be well matched to curriculum content in those different areas.” alexquigley.co.uk/disciplinary-t…