Giving back to Twitter as I get so much from it. Here’s a language booklet for a last push before the exams: dropbox.com/s/qc44x80p60kw… models are from various places - so thank you. Please RT and share. x

How we (live) mark. 🖊

Travellers with EU passports walk straight through electronic gates at Copenhagen airport while non-EU passport holders, inc us Brits, queue up and wait while each passport is stamped.

When kids start making progress it's amazing how fast "don't care" attitudes drop away. Then you get this heady multiplier effect - a virtuous circle. When this happens with classes you teach it's the best feeling.

Wondering: how does one encourage AQA to create a new GCSE subject? So many students asking after GCSE politics but isn’t offered in England and I feel like I should bug someone to make it happen now

Alex Phillips Fuck off and dog whistle somewhere else then. People are people. London is wonderful.

This is made for SEND schools. However, it might be useful if edited and given to a TA to support a pupil with chunking down a specific task.

Do the quiet (sometimes silenced) always polite kids who keep their heads down and just get on with it get included in trauma-informed approaches as they daily experience the trauma of their learning being destroyed by those often earmarked for the most attention, leeway and

Can cognitive science help develop student motivation? 🧠 I like this graphic a lot as: - Highlights how messy & complex motivation is l - It explicitly links cog sci to motivation - Describes how precious success is a huge factor blog.innerdrive.co.uk/motivation-and… by Claire Badger

This is pretty significant: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools < this is a major U-turn for UNESCO, they were advocating their use in the classroom as a driver of literacy in 2014. theguardian.com/world/2023/jul….

“My current model of teaching” via ⁦Adam Robbins⁩ adam-robbins.com/2023/07/31/my-…

Tom Rogers How I start the first lesson with my new classes. blogdebasics.wordpress.com/2021/08/08/fir…

I'm excited to announce the first in a series of GCSE revision guides is officially out! This thread on my GCSE Superpower Relations should show why it works in school but as a workbook, is even better for student revision at home! cutt.ly/twd6gSc6 #historyteacher 1/7

Exclusive: Ofsted inspections should acknowledge that some schools have the added pressure of ‘filling the gap left by other services’ in terms of supporting children in poverty, says UCL report tes.com/magazine/news/…

Nearly three-fifths of teachers say cliques at school have affected staff wellbeing over the past year, Teacher Tapp survey reveals tes.com/magazine/news/…

Written language contains far more vocabulary words than oral language. In fact most of the words that comprise a student’s reading vocabulary will appear in their lives only in written texts... teachlikeachampion.org/blog/reading-a…

School absence among children with social, emotional and mental health needs is twice as high as among those with no identified SEND, according to new Education Policy Institute analysis tes.com/magazine/news/…

Assault a police officer: arrested Assault a nurse: arrested Assault a politician: arrested Assault a teacher: let's have a restorative conversation and see what the teacher should have done differently