*** '7 Helpful Vocabulary Websites' *** 🧵 1. Rewordify.com. This tool has lots of uses: 'reword' texts; identify complex Tier 2 vocab; create glossaries; learn new vocab, and more. rewordify.com /1

M6 Teachers pay 2023 Scotland: £48516 England: £39974

Blog: What do students need to know for the English literature GCSE? rb.gy/zweual 💡Why do we need to specify knowledge? 💡Why do we need to be selective? 💡How do we make selections? 💡What pitfalls do we need to pre-empt? 📒 Core knowledge examples 📒 Free booklets

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Strikes and demonstrations in GB: Teachers, junior doctors und Tube workers walk out and fight for higher wages. Streiks und Demonstrationen in GB: Lehrer, Assistenzärzte und U-Bahn Fahrer legen die Arbeit nieder und kämpfen um höhere Löhne.

Planned different sequences (over half-term) using some new texts for Language Paper 1 to keep students engaged with revision lessons. Today, we explored Stephen King's 'IT' and analysed the description of the clown! 🤡 Never. Not. Creepy. 🎈

I've pulled together some notes on SEND provision across the curriculum from the Ofsted research reviews (not a new report). There are written notes & a PDF of this graphic on my website if you'd find them useful 👍 marcrhayes.com/post/supportin… #edublogshare #inclusion

This isnt an offer from Government it is an insult. £1000 non-consolidated. 4.5% in September AND UNFUNDED! I will be voting to REJECT. No more pay cuts! A teacher in 6th year: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 £48.5k (from Jan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 £44K (from Sept) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 £39K Vote no! Full funding and parity is what we need

Surely not…

Read the full details of the offer here. 👇bit.ly/Vote-Reject #VoteReject #PayUp #SaveOurSchools

Tonight is a reminder that you can switch in minutes to join the National Education Union as your own union has not taken proactive action to address the woeful situation imposed on the teaching profession and join us in creating a bigger voice to strike. We need EVERY teacher #EnoughIsEnough

Tonight Twitter, we're learning about the prefix 'un' - as in 'unacceptable' or 'unfunded' or 'unbelievable'.

When considering how X presents Y one also thinks of B. Both poems….However, …. Every question, every time.

I’ve written to all @woodbrhigh parents today to set out our 2023-24 budget position. It is not good news. I urge all those who love our school to campaign for us. Without more money, I am worried that staffing cuts are coming. Young people, and ultimately society, will suffer.

Any book recommendations for an engaged, but reluctant reader who likes playing the game Halo and loved the tv series The Last of Us? Team English

Students from YR7-10 have taken part in a poetry competition run by The University of Manchester. Well done to the students who have won & had their work published in the Manchester City of Literature Schools Writing Trail: manchestercityofliterature.com/event/manchest…

*** 'The Grammar Gap' *** "We are left asking: are teachers in both primary and secondary schools suffering from a crippling lack of confidence when it comes to teaching grammar?" theconfidentteacher.com/2022/05/the-gr…

Improving students' narratives through extended time writing - A thread inspired by engteacherabroad

I collect ‘Sentences I Wish I Wrote.’ Here are 7 of my favorites: 1. Terry Pratchett, The Diggers