‘Children are less aware than adults of the limitations to their own memories, and may not recognise the possibility that they have forgotten something.’ How does metacognition help children learn? – BOLD bold.expert/how-does-metac…

If there are any Year 6 teachers out there who are interested in improving their arithmetic scores, a few years ago we changed how we practiced arithmetic and it’s worked brilliantly for us.

EAL specialists - how do you approach marking EAL pupils' work. I don't want to mark every error because it would be soul destroying but I have some pupils where every single sentence is struggling grammatically. What to do?

🧵 I listened to some great history podcasts over the summer. The subject knowledge was helpful, sure- but I was surprised by how much pedagogy I picked up. Here’s a short thread of what I learned abt history teaching/storytelling, that I am now using more in the classroom:

The most effective teachers and leaders routinely engage in *2nd-order thinking*. Here's what it is and how you can do it: ↓

As it’s 1st October today, I’m re-posting this massive thread I wrote last year. One writer and text I love for every day of #BlackHistoryMonth There are resources, links, images, videos and ideas which go alongside loads of these, too. Please share if you find it useful.

As a thank you to all of the wonderful teachers out there, we're giving away free books for 72 hours for #WorldTeachersDay – all you need to do is cover the £2 per book postage fee! Browse the free books available here: crownhouse.co.uk/xxx.

Thanks to Gareth Evans and Sions for a great kick-off to the Ed D. Pondering the best tools for collating notes, references & reading. Ideally easy to use and searchable. Any tips anyone?

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Fantastic weather for the first #HTEN face to face conference in years! Looking forward to hearing @KatharineBurn History Teachers Education Network

Fantastic reflections from Tremain Baker and Helen Crawford at #HTEN24 - such great work going on across the UK in developing history teacher education History Teachers Education Network

Enjoying some brilliant speakers at our Aiming for Excellent Conference this year. Keen an eye on #Aar24afe for some great ideas. If you're one of our students, share your thoughts, reflections and takeaways using that same hashtag University of Wales Trinity Saint David APLP: Teacher Education - PDPA: Addysg Athrawon

Didn't manage to get any pics of HYWEL ROBERTS😀🦈 - but what a great introduction. Professional curiosity and wisdom at the heart of great teaching, and our student teachers have that in droves! APLP: Teacher Education - PDPA: Addysg Athrawon

We've got @drjanewaters now, sharing some initial findings from the Children's Participation in Schools project - lots of 'what', but not so much 'how' yet - #Aar24afe Home | Children's Participation in Schools (childrens-participation.org)

"As a new teacher, you can be brave" - @drjanewaters #Aar24afe #Aar24afe

Our student are incredible ♥️ Looking forward to watching all the recordings from stages I can't be at. Truly inspiring content ♥️ #AaR24AfE

Finding myself rarely here these days. Just popping up to give a quick plug to pracped pracped.net/index.php - Great teacher led conference on 1st and 2nd Nov, with some tickets left. Looking forward to catching up with Russel, HYWEL ROBERTS😀🦈 @davidErogers Lisibo and others

Trying out some other social media spaces - signed up to Bluesky (Dave Stacey.bsky.social) and Mastodon davestacey (@[email protected]) - Mastodon) Who's worth following?

Looking through a box of resources to share with the history students today and this fell out of a textbook!