🌟Fab programme for #PedagooGhlaschu on 18 May
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*1/3* of 5-7 year olds have *unsupervised access* to social media. This is insane. Parents please take the phones off your children. It’s not a baby sitter. It’s a window into every horror humanity can imagine, and at best it’s a mindless attention hoover that teaches children to…

‘Sorry for talking so much’. I don’t normally post pics of thank you gifts but this is an absolute cracker 😂 It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to work with our wonderful S6 over the past 6 years.

FINALLY agreement that S1 is often a restart rather than progression. We need to get cracking on an approach to defining knowledge required otherwise the BGE muddle will limp along. This further demo. the necessity for accurate transition info & partnerships between pri & sec.

The murder of teacher, Blair Peach – a 🧵
 
Blair Peach was born in New Zealand. In 1969, and moved to the UK with his partner, Celia. Peach taught at the Phoenix School in Bow in East London, a school for young children with special needs. #Defiance

‘As an outside at-distance observer of a school you are simply not in a position to judge – so you shouldn’t.’

Thanks for your honesty Tom Sherrington - behaviour is a contentious topic. There is no binary - context, relationships and systems are key.

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This is an absolutely brilliant blog - absolute gold!
‘…if we want learners to build progressively more complex schema&to grasp abstract ideas with confidence, then we need to lay the appropriate  foundations through coherent, well sequenced curriculum design.’ Thanks Clare!

This needs urgently reviewed by Creative Scotland. A city which values the arts must have a book festival 🤦🏼‍♀️

In A&E at the QEUH just now with Dad. Time for reflection once again on how lucky we have been to attract brilliant staff to work here from all over the world - and what a mad act of economic and social self harm GOV.UK are committing by making it harder for them to do so.

The inability of our world institutions to hold Israel to account & stop their war crimes in Gaza is difficult to comprehend, let alone to discuss with kids as we Mods teachers must do. The scale of the devastation wreaked is truly horrific. theguardian.com/world/video/20…

Powerful input from Graeme Armstrong this morning at the Planet Youth in Scotland event with Winning Scotland

Importance of 'actionable hope' and shifting attitudes towards young people who are struggling - seeing beneath the surface of behaviours to potential of the individual

Use the Model for Great Teaching to structure T&L discussions.

Can we explain how & why the curriculum should be sequenced?
Do we have multiple explanations & examples at hand for when students ‘don’t get it’?
Do we know the common misconceptions surrounding each topic?

This headline should be corrected. The big drop (-500) is in student teachers not proceeding to their probation year. This may be because they didn’t pass, or dropped out of the course. It’s unlikely to be because they ‘opted out’ of probation.

This is brilliant! Will def be incorporating some of the stories/sources into our Story of Scotland history course Rosshall Academy

Well worth a read. Stuart’s critical analysis of the issues with teaching ‘skills’ & the importance of scaffolding knowledge in order that students can build clear schema is astutely observed.

The report on teachers’ views on the Hayward Report will be very interesting to all those concerned with curriculum and assessment. Particularly notable is the strength of feeling expressed against the removal of N5 exams gov.scot/binaries/conte…

Some exclusive news following Jenny Gilruth's speech today:

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Jenny Gilruth said last year she wanted to hear the views of teachers before responding to the Hayward review. The Scotsman reveals today a majority of Scottish teachers told the Government they were opposed to scrapping exams for S4 pupils. scotsman.com/education/exam…