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Nikkie

@nikkiecowell

Director of English/PGCE Lecturer.
CTeach qualified. (EduScience)
PGCE/ECT/TeachFirst Mentor.
Curriculum & Assessment Planning nerd. Teaching & Learning geek.

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calendar_today30-07-2016 02:32:57

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Appropriate at the moment considering the current political situation in Great Britain, and in the classroom as we study A Christmas Carol 😂 #Vote #Labour #Voting #CharlesDickens

Appropriate at the moment considering the current political situation in Great Britain, and in the classroom as we study A Christmas Carol 😂
#Vote #Labour #Voting #CharlesDickens
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Just one of the notes I received today. Very surprised as I've had quite a few from this low set class, which has generally been a very tough class to teach! Most of their lessons leave me drained, so it's great to know that that amount of effort is paying off 🥰 #teacher #teach

Just one of the notes I received today. Very surprised as I've had quite a few from this low set class, which has generally been a very tough class to teach! Most of their lessons leave me drained, so it's great to know that that amount of effort is paying off 🥰 #teacher #teach
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For the love of all that is holy please someone come wrench this book out of my grip. It's my punishment for being an English Lit A-level teacher all these years and not reading it, isn't it? #TheHandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood #Reading #Reader #NottheallnighterIhadplanned

For the love of all that is holy please someone come wrench this book out of my grip. It's my punishment for being an English Lit A-level teacher all these years and not reading it, isn't it? #TheHandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood #Reading #Reader #NottheallnighterIhadplanned
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Forgot the A3 paper I needed for my silent debate lesson on Sheila B yesterday, so I improvised. Love doing these lessons, every student is excited to get their ideas added to the desk, even the most reluctant writers! #tabletoplesson #ACC #ACClesson #teaching #memorablelessons

Forgot the A3 paper I needed for my silent debate lesson on Sheila B yesterday, so I improvised. 
Love doing these lessons, every student is excited to get their ideas added to the desk, even the most reluctant writers! #tabletoplesson #ACC #ACClesson #teaching #memorablelessons
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Getting my geek on. Anyone else have to read from hardcopies? 😅 #CTeach #CharteredCollegeofTeaching #Eduction #CognitiveScienceinEducation #IwishIhadmystapler

Getting my geek on. Anyone else have to read from hardcopies? 😅
#CTeach #CharteredCollegeofTeaching #Eduction #CognitiveScienceinEducation #IwishIhadmystapler
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So excited for these webinars! Tom Bennett spoke at my uni while I was training for my PGCE and nine years later his advice is still the absolute best I have had for dealing with behaviour.

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Bit of light summer reading alongside my cognitive theory in education research...😅 #edutwitter #teacher #teaching #research #cognitivetheory #education #CTeach #CTeachprogramme

Bit of light summer reading alongside my cognitive theory in education research...😅
#edutwitter #teacher #teaching #research #cognitivetheory #education #CTeach #CTeachprogramme
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I'll never understand how having high expectations of behaviour is criticised so heavily by some. Set, model and enforce high standards of behaviour for your students and watch them rise up to meet them. They do and they will. Every time.

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It's so lovely to receive messages like this from students. This year our profession has been under more strain than ever, it's good to know that our students can see how hard we are working for them 🥰

It's so lovely to receive messages like this from students. 
This year our profession has been under more strain than ever, it's good to know that our students can see how hard we are working for them 🥰
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Flowers and chocolates from students 🥰 So sad to see my Year 11 and 13 class go this year. #teacher #teacherlife #englishteacher #education

Flowers and chocolates from students 🥰
So sad to see my Year 11 and 13 class go this year. 
#teacher #teacherlife #englishteacher #education
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Teachers: PLEASE. Play this speech to your students. You can frame it as a ‘debate’ or analyse rhetoric or whatever but the kids *need* to hear these words. There is time in the school day for this. No excuses. It’s essential.

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Teach Like A Champion is about social justice. It is every student's right, especially those not born to privilege, to be in classrooms that socialise scholarship and protect and create the optimal conditions for achievement. Equity starts with achievement.

Teach Like A Champion is about social justice. It is every student's right, especially those not born to privilege, to be in classrooms that socialise scholarship and protect and create the optimal conditions for achievement. Equity starts with achievement.
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Accurate...people will eventually vote with their feet in schools like this, leaving leaders baffled over a mass exodus. Always ironic when they are unwilling to question if they are in fact the problem.

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Sometimes the best measure of how good a job you are doing is how the people beneath you feel under your leadership and guidance. Throughout my teaching career I have had many lovely student messages. These have to be the loveliest 😊 #teaching #teacher #teacherlife

Sometimes the best measure of how good a job you are doing is how the people beneath you feel under your leadership and guidance. 
Throughout my teaching career I have had many lovely student messages. These have to be the loveliest 😊
#teaching #teacher #teacherlife
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Attended #ResearchEd today. Joined really informative and useful sessions and fangirled hard over Tom Bennett OBE New career goal unlocked of wanting to eventually attend as a guest speaker in the future. #education #researchineducation #dedicationtotheeducation #ResearchEd2024

Attended #ResearchEd today. Joined really informative and useful sessions and fangirled hard over <a href="/tombennett71/">Tom Bennett OBE</a> New career goal unlocked of wanting to eventually attend as a guest speaker in the future. #education #researchineducation  #dedicationtotheeducation #ResearchEd2024