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It's time to have your say! ⬇️

My first September as an FE teacher starts today 🙌 but more importantly got to go back and see these guys before term starts #btec #furthereducation

What a place to work 🌞

Despite their reputation of being aloof and uncaring, cats form deep attachments to humans, often preferring their company to other rewards on.natgeo.com/3DwRhzu

the cognitive load of teaching a difficult class of 30, providing differentiation and individualised support, mastering questioning and AFL techniques, and trying to remember to live mark, was most of what made me sleep at 8pm every night while teaching in secondary 🤯

*Important information* In the early hours of the morning a fire started at our Printworks campus. Thanks to the local fire services and the college’s internal fire measures, the incident has now been controlled. (1/3)

The ppl believe the strikes are about pay, meaning once a pay settlement is agreed, the public will think it’s ‘sorted’. Plays into govt hands as they will then say ‘we’ve given teachers what they want so now they can shut up’ But all the polls say it’s workload, behaviour and

This is utterly hartbreaking. There HAS to be a complete overhaul of education but especially the Ofsted system. Where is the accountability for the wellbeing for headteachers in the system? Chris Dyson FCCT @DeputySchofield Ben Brown🔥 ⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Best trip day ever 🐻‍❄

thanks Kermit 🤪

best college trip ever!!! 2 weeks spent game driving, bird watching and taking in the most amazing environment lion 🦁🦓 🐘 #workexperience #furthereducation #dreamjob

first "proper" day back with students... In bed at 10 past 8

“Behaviour communicates unmet need.” A thread in which I will aggravate almost everyone.

Saving for the design of the department's imminent (🤞) new building...!

There’s a lot of behaviour advice out there from behaviour consultants that appears to be basically ‘be as amazing as I am.’ Problem is, there are 500,000 teachers in the UK alone. A system that requires them all to be inspirational performers isn’t remotely serious or

40,000 teachers walking away year on year from teaching, number rising not falling. So - pay rises haven't helped (yet, but I don't think they will), ECF hasn't helped, workload reduction groups and reports, CPD offers, wellbeing Wednesdays etc etc Why? 4 things *still* remain

'Teaching unions have accused ministers of “daylight robbery” after a new survey by the Trades Union Congress revealed that teachers perform the most unpaid overtime of any profession.'

made it through my first series as a marking examiner for city and guilds... hugely beneficial experience and can't wait to apply what I've learned to next year's cohort, but first I need to sleep through the first week of Easter! 😴#cityandguilds #animalcare

Just found out about donkey nannies, which are donkeys used to carry newborn lambs down the mountains for seasonal grazing.