All my KS5 English Language resources are finally in one place 🥰 I am so passionate about this course - if anyone is teaching it for the first time in Sept I’d love to help if you need drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Leaders need to earn and keep trust ⬇️ Via 🤞Credibility 🤞Consistency 🤞Care Really enjoyed the reflections from Forest Gate Community School and Cumberland Community School leadership teams in this week’s leadership training. Thanks (again) to Peps for the inspo 🤩 FGCS TLC The Community Schools Trust

🚨Attendance intervention thread🚨 Our attendance lead uses a student success discussion (SSD) to identify any attendance issues and aim to help eradicate any issues. Done with the child and agreed actions to give them control and reviewed. Aimed to stop any concerns spiralling

Okay, she's finished! Since teaching the essay as a piece of writing rather than as unconnected 'paragraphs', our results have been pretty great. Our SEN pupils outperformed our non-SEN pupils for the first time ever this year. However...(A thread) drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

I firmly believe that POSITIVE ACTION beats the blues every time. So, because I know what EduTwitter can be, I’m going to put that out into the universe and hope it lifts some of you, too. Here are some ENGLISH TEACHER things (in no particular order) which I think are ace… 👇🧵

Hey Team English - handy lil’ ‘Big Ideas’ poster for ACC. Been working well as a quasi-knowledge organiser in books!

One of the easiest things I do with ChatGPT, is when I've put a model text into it, I ask it to write me a word bank. I'll put my prompts in the next tweet. Saves me so much time.

Been a busy term and I’m so ready for the Christmas break. Thought I’d share some threads on the CPD that’s been on offer at Meols Cop this term so far. I’ll start with our Middle Leader Mastery programme, which is onto year 4 with a focus on Teams & launching Steplab

Here they are: eleven quotation drills for Act 1 of An Inspector Calls. These are tailored to WJEC but should work for others too. Hope they are useful! drive.google.com/file/d/1UB-j8N… Team English & Literacy, Wales Litdrive UK Team English #englishteaching #gcseliterature #aninspectorcalls

***TEACHING AND LEARNING*** Thread 🧵 To improve the use of teaching and learning techniques in the classroom we need to define them “this is how we do it here” and make it common practice across the school. When implementing T&L techniques their success relies on this

1st attempt at creating KS3 course reader - y7 crime fiction based primarily on skill of inference for Doyle's 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'. Images not own.Idea totally all Laura Webb who I hope doesn't mind my creating this! Feedback welcome. drive.google.com/file/d/1RzUtik…

Six Things That Made My Teaching Better - for me and my students. teacherhead.com/2020/12/20/six… via Tom Sherrington

Just realized that the text of my second inaugural lecture (at the Institute of Education, 2007)—Assessment for Learning: Why, what and how—is no longer being sold by UCL Press, so the copyright reverts to me, and I can make it open access, so here it is: bit.ly/AfLWWH.

***CODIFYING FEEDBACK*** Thread What are we doing to codify feedback and create opportunities for students to feedforward? All too often feedback doesn’t create opportunities for students to feedforward and allow application to different contexts from across the curriculum.

I always disliked full-on ‘book review’ tasks but loved designing Reading Journals which I could quickly check. I made termly A5 booklets where students could make weekly reflections and ‘magpie’ words. Anything else was an optional extra but I looked forward to checking these!

⚖️ Is an inclusive approach to education a priority in your school? School leaders share five ways adaptive teaching plays a role in their setting – from the classroom to whole-school culture. Read their experiences: www2.ambition.org.uk/five-ways-adap…

The DfE have called 2025-26 a ‘Year of Reading’. We welcome this brilliant initiative, but at Carlton Academy Trust, we have a head-start. This has been a huge year for our secondary schools where we have revolutionised our reading program. We are delighted to share our impact 👇

AQA English Language examiner feedback summarised for you thehappyteacherhub.co.uk/resources-of-t…

***LITERACY STANDARDS*** Literacy lies at the heart of everything we do. We know that strong reading, writing, and speaking skills are essential for students to fully engage with our ambitious, knowledge-rich curriculum and to succeed in all areas of life. That’s why we