Carl Hendrick
@C_Hendrick
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Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
Joined July 2009
I've been writing this post for 10 years. Link in reply ⬇️
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This is the best thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet
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Liverpool's Spellow Lane library torched last night. What could be more 'patriotic' than destroying a centre which serves the local community?
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If you need a lift here's my twin girls holding hands while they sleep.
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Just had a frank exchange of words with a gentleman on a plane who seemed to think that the small child crying behind him was doing it on purpose. I was sitting next to the child’s mother who was already stressed and upset and his complaining made her feel ten times worse. No.
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And despite everything, two rays of light in the darkness. Welcome to the world Sadie and Grace.
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I've been teaching secondary English for 15 years and it's only since my daughter started school that I realise there is nothing which compares to the explosive, exponential rate of learning which happens in the first 4 years of Primary as she learns to read. It's life defining.
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Marvellous mathematical takedown of a Motivational Poster
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This clip of Barak Rosenshine talking about 'higher order thinking skills' is one of the single most important things for teachers to know about learning.
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Julia Donaldson has sold over 25 million books. I love the fact that yesterday she decided to celebrate the Gruffalo's 25th anniversary by going to a primary school with her husband and singing to some kids 👏
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This is an extraordinary post from a College professor about their students' lack of ability to focus and read books. Incredibly depressing.
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Sometimes people ask what the point of poetry is and claim that schools should teach kids how to pay bills or other 'useful' stuff. @TheAmandaGorman's performance today reminds us why poetry matters and why students should be encouraged to revere it.
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Head teachers need their staff to be right behind them this week. Once again they're having to make tumultuous decisions based on conflicting and often inconsistent advice. Many heads have not had any real break since March and this term could be the toughest yet. Support them.
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Executive head appears on break duty during Ofsted. Has to be shown where the playground is
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If the wider public knew what is happening they would be shocked. In many schools today, 1% of students are destroying the education of the rest and taking up the most of the time/energy of the staff. Unsustainable.
Teachers’ mental health and wellbeing are suffering due to an ‘alarming’ rise in challenging behaviour, including verbal and physical abuse from parents and pupils, finds @EdSupportUK wellbeing survey.
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There's a massive divide right now between those with small children at home and those with older kids or none at all. Some teachers are looking after their kids all day then planning/marking/recording lessons after 7pm. Not sustainable long-term.
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Oh wow this is really something. Tennis player Mahut loses the game but walks off the court a winner thanks to his son. Amazing.
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The new variant is called Wordle. Middle class people over 40 are the most at risk. No vaccine as yet.
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Keats's personal copy of Paradise Lost. There are copious notes on every page. In the Romantic era marginalia were seen as a form of literary expression.
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Big fan of headteachers who still actually teach in a classroom.
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So much of great teaching is about talking about something as if it's the most important thing in the world.
cannot stress enough how much you need to watch this with the sound on.
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The idea that these rioters represent the concerns of 'ordinary people' is nonsense. The vast majority of people see this lot for who they actually are. Well said this lady.
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Teaching my 3 year old daughter to read and I'm just blown away by the whole process. With every new letter/sound/word/meaning she is become more and more empowered in the world. It might be the most important thing I ever do for her.
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Students learn faster when they see what something is and what it isn’t. One of the most important aspect of curriculum planning + instructional design is effectively using examples and non-examples. 🧵⬇️
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Whatever your views on masks in the classroom, don't call it child abuse. It just isn't and it's hugely offensive to people who have suffered or dealt with actual child abuse.
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Spoke to a teacher this week who said they are expected to show evidence of 8 'competencies' within a lesson such as resilience/collaboration etc. This is pedagogical novichok. No wonder teachers are leaving the profession.
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People who say this generation of kids are selfish and self-centred usually don't know any. This is great.
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Went to my daughter's school for a ‘show your work’ morning and discovered this. It took me a moment to compose myself.
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Big fan of headteachers who still teach. Makes staff feel that not only do they have a true appreciation of what’s going on in their school but that they’re right there in the trenches alongside them.
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To mark the release of our new book, we’re giving away three pairs of both books. Retweet to be included in the draw.
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In case you're having a bad day, here's my daughter laughing at a sock
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God this is good >> Marvellous Mathematical Takedown Of A Motivational Poster via @davowillz
http://t.co/gUMCtWGpPg.
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Trump is that pupil who has to be removed from a lesson but refuses to do so when the deputy head arrives resulting in the whole class having to move to another classroom in order to continue what's left of the lesson.
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Direct or explicit instruction seems to be widely misunderstood. It's often characterised as boring lectures with little interaction and not catering to the needs of all students. Nothing could be further from the truth. A short thread 🧵⬇️.
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Songwriting is a form of alchemy. This clip of Paul McCartney coming up with 'Get Back' within 5 minutes in front of a very hungover George and Ringo is just incredible.
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A great example of why creativity is based on knowledge. Without a deep understanding of classical, gospel and blues music Paul Simon couldn't have written “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Great songwriters have a vast mental library of music to draw upon.
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Seeing a lot of schools mandating retrieval practice in every lesson but also seeing quite a few misconceptions. A quick thread: 10 ways to get retrieval practice wrong ⬇️ 🧵.
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Our daughter has finally arrived. Mother and baby doing well, father can't believe his luck.
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'Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work'.
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Today my 5 yo daughter finished her reception year. I read through all her work this year and I'm blown away by her progress. In 10 months she's basically learned to read and write. Is there any other period in life where you learn so much in so short a space of time?.
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The more I see what nursery/pre-school staff do with my daughters every day, the more I'm convinced they're the most important people in education.
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You can’t connect the dots if you don’t have any dots.
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No sign of the Prime Minister again by the way. He's like the absentee headteacher who only every turns up for assemblies and doesn't know any of the kids' names.
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Just read this to my daughter and my voice cracked as I got to the end of the paragraph. It’s probably 40 years since this same passage was read to me.
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Brilliant.
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3 year old in the car on the way to nursery today: "Daddy I want you to be a little boy again so we can be best friends forever and ever." I don't deserve this kid.
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“There’s clear scientific evidence that digital tools impair rather than enhance student learning,”
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Anyone else up for cancelling the rest of 2020 and having a three month Christmas/New Year starting on Friday?.
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THREAD: there is a growing body of evidence to show that mobile phone use is linked with lower academic achievement, a decrease in wellbeing and can often facilitate bullying in schools. Here's some of the available evidence.
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What a tremendous effort we have seen from head teachers this week. It's lonely at the top at the best of times and no leadership course or amount of experience in the job could have prepared them for this. Well done. 👏.
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It's not just the work, it's the joyless and solitary nature of it. Teaching is a relational enterprise where so much of it depends on the electricity of a classroom and hundreds of small interactions between people. I value my colleagues and students more than I ever have.
Ofsted found teachers' workload has soared during the pandemic due to remote learning expectations.
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"I learn more from my students than they learn from me." . Imagine a doctor saying "My patients heal me more than I heal them." Our profession is intellectually bankrupt.
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When a Maths teacher has to cover a History lesson at short notice
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Six recommendations on how to effectively use feedback to improve students’ learning
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This, in a nutshell, explains why educational research has made such little impact in the classroom.
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How good is ChatGPT at writing English essays? As an English teacher of 15 years I've been playing about with it and I think we need to pay attention to this. ⬇️ 🧵.
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Study confirms what many teachers instinctively know: Allowing kids time and space to become absorbed in books makes them better readers. Stop interrupting them with 'activities' and just let them read.
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Dave Grohl on teachers: "It takes a certain kind of person to devote their life to this difficult and often-thankless job."
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How learning happens in seven general principles ⬇️. 1. Working Memory Capacity is Limited: Our working memory, responsible for holding and processing information in real-time, has a limited capacity. This limitation means that when learners are exposed to large amounts of new
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Every flipped classroom lesson: ."OK did you all watch the video?".*Crickets* ."Okay, let me just teach it again anyway.".
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The kind of people who treat cleaners and support staff with contempt are not worthy of public office.
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When your lessons are ruined by the the kids at the back who've dropped the subject but still have to attend class
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Over many years of reading academic research I've learned that the more obtuse and obscure the language, the more likely it is to be self-indulgent guff. Voicing complex ideas with clarity, economy and precision should be a central aim of all academic writing.
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So much of the inequity in education comes from over-educated middle class people with social science degrees setting terrible policy that actively disadvantages the already disadvantaged.
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The six most important characteristics of excellent teachers.(Hopkins and Stern, 1996)
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Once again, matching teaching to learning styles has near-zero impact on student achievement. I've noticed a resurgence of the learning styles myth recently so this new study is timely. 🧵 ⬇️
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He sounded hopeful but something was off. Looking back now I can see he was saying goodbye. I just didn't spot it. If you think someone is struggling with mental health, speak up. Don't have regrets. Say something before it's too late. 3/3.
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What I really can't stomach today is people who haven't worked in a classroom in 20 years (or ever) telling A-level teachers and students that everything is fine and this is the way it has to be.
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"If a teacher is marking everything your child does, it’s bad teaching. It is using time in a way that does not have the greatest benefit for students."
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“That’s what teaching is all about. It’s a lovely profession.”
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Sweden replacing all tablets with textbooks ➡️Another edtech experiment ends with millions wasted and worse outcomes for students. (The percentage of ten-year-olds with reading difficulties has risen from 12 to 19 percent in five years.).
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A great example of explicit instruction: .✅ Clear, structured explanations .✅ Skill broken down into parts.✅Constant checking for understanding .✅ Scaffolded support + Faded guidance .✅ High success rate before independent practice.
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A hugely important question to ask in evaluating teaching quality is 'how many students could sit through this lesson and still learn nothing of what's being taught?' In this lesson the answer is almost certainly none.
Direct instruction is joyful & leads pupils to success. Here is a *clip* where I use high frequency & high participation questioning in 3 phases:.1. Check for listening.2. Rehearsal.3. Check for understanding.Established routines: all hands up, turn & talk, SLANT & ruler reading
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Three main things to focus on for student learning: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 you teach (curriculum) 𝗛𝗼𝘄 it’s taught (instruction) and 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 they’ve learned it (assessment). You can focus on tangential things like generic skills, growth mindset, grit, metacognition, engagement, SEL,.
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Just found out an old friend of mine took his own life. We shared an apartment for a time in our 20s and went through a lot together for a few years. We hadn't spoken for a long time when he contacted me out of the blue two weeks ago and we talked for a few hours. 1/3.
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Caitlin Moran's vision of education is quite possibly the worst thing I've ever read.
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This is so important. Englemann on why you should maximise every second of every lesson and why wasting time with ineffective teaching methods has real consequences for at-risk and disadvantaged kids.
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I feel these are three things every teacher and school leader should know:. 1. We are more similar than dissimilar in how we learn. 2. This has major implications for designing curriculum, instruction and assessment. 3. Expecting teachers to differentiate their teaching for 30
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Living with 3 small kids in the holidays is like being a waiter in a busy restaurant with the worst customers in the world who then come to your house at night and wake you up every two hours to complain about the service.
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This is the educational equivalent of anti-vaxx disinformation. Kids do NOT learn to read by discovering it for themselves and to advocate for it creates an even bigger gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged.
Discovery learning involves trying things out, experimenting and getting it wrong. This is how young children learn. Instruction is a far less efficient way to do this, as anyone who has spent any time with 3-7 year olds can tell you. You can tell children things as many times.
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The first week of December is often the time when teachers crash and burn, particularly newly qualified ones. Important to support your colleagues at this time.
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Desks in rows or in groups at tables? "In all three classes on‐task behaviour doubled from around 35% to 70% as the conditions changed from tables to rows. Moreover, rate of disruption was three times higher in tables conditions.".
@MrCScholz @Aintropy @tetheredtoed1 @edudissenter @MrLandesman @MrZachG @rastokke @MrDanielBuck @P_A_Kirschner @tombennett71 @S_Oberle @learnwithmrlee @rpondiscio @NathanielRSwain @BarryGarelick There’s very strong evidence on this issue but it won’t convince the doubters for whom it’s ideological.
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Seeing some teachers saying they’re doing 3 or 4 hours planning/marking every Sunday. Any school policy that results in that needs to be seriously looked at.
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One of the most important things educators need to know about learning is that human memory is not like a tape recorder or a computer. It has what Bjork and Bjork call “important peculiarities”, four of which are really important to know when planning teaching ⬇️🧵.
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The Maths department called to the stage at inset to celebrate record GCSE results
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A little known poem by Philip Larkin on the inconsolable shock of ageing.
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