A lot of controversy on this but
1. Any curriculum will need periodic reviews as things become outdated, distorted, and we find out what does/doesn’t work in the existing curriculum
2. It is normal therefore for a new government to want to look at this

Of course, this could go…

It was a surreal experience to attend my first researchED Canada conference. Here are my takeaways. #rEDTO24

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Anna Stokke Amanda VanDerHeyden @johnmighton Daniel Willingham Paul W Bennett DrTracyVaillancourt Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD Carl Hendrick

This is a fantastic 🧵from Sarah Donarski on accurate assessment 👇 #rEDAberdeen

*Ahem*
1. No, misbehaviour often isn’t a sign of a skills shortage; sometimes sure. Other times it might be deliberate.
2. Sanctions (not punishments) do indeed deter misbehaviour. This is why people don’t park outside Buckingham Palace
3. No. Sometimes.

Great stuff

This is actually lovely

Great to be part of such a brilliant ⁦researchED Scotland⁩ line-up today. Refreshing to be at an event with such a strong focus on teaching and learning.

The quality of presentations from everyone was first class 😊

*Ahem*
1. No, misbehaviour often isn’t a sign of a skills shortage; sometimes sure. Other times it might be deliberate.
2. Sanctions (not punishments) do indeed deter misbehaviour. This is why people don’t park outside Buckingham Palace
3. No. Sometimes.

Great stuff

Standing room only for the session on metacognition in the classroom with Jonathan Firth #rEDAberdeen

A great book.

SYDNEY I AM WITH YOU 🇦🇺

This man has brought so much joy to my life. I legit think this is one of the greatest men to have ever lived.

I know this sounds annoying but obviously can't give details but have got two DMS from Welsh teachers saying they are moving to England because of curriculum for excellence.

I’m still buzzing from #rEDAberdeen ! I’m incredibly grateful to my amazing colleagues at Robert Gordon's College who made it happen, especially Kirsten Colquhoun, and to everyone who came. LET’S DO IT AGAIN!! 😉 Tom Bennett OBE researchED Scotland Clare Smith Jane Tulloch researchED

Tom Bennett OBE I'd feel a bit differently (a bit) if people were saying 'this child's behaviour might be caused by trauma so we will apply the precautionary principle until we know more'. But it's never that, in my experience. It is usually a sweeping 'we need to be 'trauma-informed''.

Tom Bennett OBE In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿LAs (& as an extensions SLT) use trauma & Rights Respecting Schools as a tool to tell teachers to cope with misbehaviour, when it’s them failing to allow effective interventions where it occurs, so it becomes part of the culture. No amount of training will sort that.

Retweeting this again, in light of some worrying statements from The Labour Party and Bridget Phillipson

Once again, I'd be happy to discuss it further. I don't know who Labour are talking to!

Yes. It’s interesting how much gaslighting goes around this. When you criticise the ubiquity of trauma in discussions around behaviour, I keep getting told ‘no one thinks that’ by people who don’t seem to have much experience in schools.

1. Sure, but lots of people in education think they can identify it without medical training, and causally, casually link it to behaviour.
2. Many people also use this amateur diagnosis to excuse oceans of misbehaviour.

There wasn’t really any need to say that.

This can barely be called a curriculum. It's how you would plan for a curriculum to become diluted, vague and chaotic. These mad experiments on children need to stop, but policy makers fall in love with them, and academics paper their CVs with them.

Absolutely delighted to get to know Kate Jones better today! She’s amazing and her keynote was powerful. Loved that we used the same evidence-informed graphic! Can’t wait to meet up again in July!