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1. Thread How I start a lesson. Before lesson begins, do now on board. PP, visualiser or handwritten on whiteboard. Doesn't matter what as long as clear and appropriatley

1. Included? Learning Disability History Podcast Update Full roster! We now have all our readers. Three recordings in already. They are beautiful and I expect all will be. Read on

I'm going hard in on Locke and Latham on goal setting for the first time. It makes painful reading when applied to how I've seen goal setting done with pupils

Almost all schools ban mobile phones in lessons. Schools have tried using mobiles from time to time but it hasn't caught on. There are good reasons for this.https://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts/status/1385964511983816706 For schools

1. Target Grades. A thread as I've seen a fair few tweets about them recently. Buckle in. Once more into the breach dear friends.. 2. Target grades generated for pupils

My hunch is attitudes towards teachers in the UK probably correlate fairly closely with how well people did in exams. An issue with instrumental justifications for education is if you

This is an important point. I *think* we might be better off if ITT courses were more specialised as to what school of pedagogy they believed in and were then

THREAD. Here's my list of things that have worked. It is longer than I thought it would be.1.Reading loads about the topics I’m teaching.2.Planning and scripting explanations.3.Learning names and using

1. Thread: A Shutdown Curriculum.It's clear online remote learning isn't really working for most pupils in most schools. It's failing disadvantaged pupils the most. It's messy, hard to administer, stressful

This week's #Fridayfive is best debut albums. 1. Stone Roses. Stone Roses. 2. Oasis. Definitely Maybe. 3. Strokes. Is this it. 4. Lauryn Hill. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. 5. Guns

1. I've been waiting a while to do this. This article seems as good a place as any to begin THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS THREAD ON WHY THEY AREN'T ALWAYS