READING: The radical change we need in secondary schools, and how we are plotting our course @AcademyCAT1 A (long) thread 🧵 👇

Great thread!

We collaborated with Esri UK to create a set of free teaching resources, combining our #climate expertise and #UKCP data with their interactive maps & dashboards, for young people to learn more about how climate change will impact their local area

Amazing Briley Habib. Thanks for sharing 🫐😀

CONTINGENCY BLINDNESS (aka why graded lesson observations don't work) A mega-geeky thread I've been sitting on for 5 years: ↓

GCSE AQA #geographyteacher! To conincide with #COP29; we’ve published three new resources with Royal Meteorological Society verification to support your teaching of Climate Change 🌍🏭🌳 Found here: aqa.org.uk/subjects/geogr… #teachinggeography

Great to see that AQA have released booklets for teachers of Science, Geog, Maths, RE, Citizenship, D&T and Psychology GCSE specs showing how the current specs can be used to deliver climate education AQA #geography #edchat #RE #gcse #climatechange aqa.org.uk/climate-change

Week 3 of 'Free Book Friday' 📚 Every Friday we away books! Yup...Free books! This week it's copy of the amazing Write Like a Ninja! 🥷 To enter, just comment on the post! ♻️ Retweet to spread the love 🥰 Keep #Edutwitter awesome! #freebookfriday

🚨 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…

Stumbled across this series of up-to-date videos on BBC Bitesize earlier whilst working on our Y7 resources. Judging from the sources credited at the end, these are very new! First couple proving very useful for our Y7 curriculum😊 Link: bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topic…

🔁 CLASSROOM ROUTINES! Routines free up time for what matters most—learning. This new poster summarises key strategies for establishing and automating effective routines to make classrooms predictable and run like clockwork. Inspired by the brilliant work of Peps and

🧠 Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham is one of the most influential books for teachers on cognitive science. It explores how students’ minds work and how to use this knowledge to be a better teacher. 🪡 THREAD… TOP 5 TAKEAWAYS!

They’re finally directing inference for AQA P2, Q2! More than I could have dreamed 😂 🎉🥳🍾 aqa.org.uk/subjects/engli…

‘Why should we read aloud in class?’ “The teacher reading aloud and expertly modelling fluency (pace, expression, volume etc.) is likely a better bet than selecting underpractised pupils to read.” alexquigley.co.uk/who-should-rea…

Still a couple of days to win a copy of my latest book all about Adaptive Teaching. 🔥 off the press. Retweet and follow by end of 28th Feb! #adaptive teaching #cpd

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘The 7 deadly sins of exam revision’ “There is no easy way to make revision sinners into saints, but if we understand the issues & barriers - the 7 sins - we can make small improves that can potentially make a big difference...” alexquigley.co.uk/the-7-deadly-s…

I've just added loads of new links to my Padlet of Micro:bit Educational Foundation ideas. It contains a couple of year's worth of micro:bit ideas and resources I've found online. I hope it inspires you to make the most of the micro:bit 😃💡💻. padlet.com/MrM_/microbit

Thanks so much for sharing Kate Stockings

GCSE Geography countdown: With two days to go until Paper 1, I’m sharing again here my 15 top tips and command word advice. Both fit on a single page (PDF printed 1x2). With examples specific for AQA. File link above. #teachers #geography #geographyteacher