16/ Meta-analysis of 47 studies on the relationship between motivation and achievement in school → suggests that results tend to boost motivation more than motivation boosts results tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I split 28 GCSE Maths Papers into odd and even numbers, filmed a tutorial to go through each half paper and listed the topics covered on the front with Sparx Codes. Makes a perfect 45 min weekly homework / revision lesson for Y10 / Y11. I also do it live on TikTok each Thurs 7pm.

A little story about behaviour, relationships, expectations and consequences: A while back, I taught a really tough Year 11 class. There weren't many of them in the room. Their attendance was sporadic. They hated science, and weren't doing very well. >

I thought I would fact check this bizarre article from this weekend's Observer (not, as people keep saying, the The Guardian, which normally is much better for quality education coverage). It's almost easier to find out what is true, than to deal with all the inaccuracies. 🧵

How P8 scores end up not working properly for French, Spanish and German. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2024/07/cautio… It's almost as if they want to harm these subjects in as many ways as possible.

If there’s one plea I could make ahead of GCSE results day tomorrow, it’s in the way the media and other commentators talk about GCSE grades. Grades 1-3 are not fails. Us or Xs are. Anyone with a 1-3 HAS GOT A GCSE. And for some of those kiddos, a 1 or a 2 or 3 can be a

Wow! This is seriously bad. A grade 7 candidate in AQA French Listening typically got less than 50%. And then the boundaries for grades 3 to 7 are so squished together. For a 3 it's LESS than an actual mark. 18/60 = the entire band, having been scaled from out of 50.

Would love to hear people's thoughts about their MFL KS4 curriculum (pre new-GCSE). If you've largely followed a textbook, have you done that over 2 years or 3 years? Do you find you have enough time? What changes have you made? Have you moved away from a textbook entirely?

I've only ever worked in a school that starts on textbook modules 1-3 in y9, so never experienced what a 2-year GCSE looks like. Has always seemed that it would be v hard to fit everything in? But also feel like students would benefit from a proper third year of a KS3 curriculum?

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Early train to London for #rEd24 today! Looking forward to sessions on curriculum and assessment design, attention and ratio!

Has anyone had any AQA GCSE writing scripts back? We are seeing what feels like much harsher marking than what we're used to from previous years. Not really sure what to make of it..

CHMFL Our highers were much lower than expected. We also had a 90 task with 0/10 for content and 6/6 for quality! It's perfect. We've done clerical remark - no change, a remark- no change! They can't have read it. Now it's having remark number 2....

Looking at A level grade boundaries. To get an A Star grade in French (AQA), you must average 90%. The highest of any subject. To get an E grade, 42%. Imagine getting a U with 41%. In Chemistry, 20% is an E. 42% is a C. #ResultsDay2025 No wonder students are not taking MFL…