Cait Hall
@ClassofHall
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Y6 Teacher👩🏼🏫, Software Dev👩💻, Book Lover📚, Tech Obsessed👾, NPQLTD 🎓, Cat Slave🐱, Fully certified Apple Teacher/Microsoft Innovative Educator💫
Joined February 2009
Controversial post time: #readingforpleasure isn’t just about sofas and pretty spaces - it’s about facilitating and fostering that love & desire to pick up the written word, simply because they want to. Often - the floor beats a sofa anyway 🙃. #edutwitter #primaryrocks
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One of my favourite ideas I ever picked up from Twitter: rainbow connotation circles! Still brilliant for exploring language and meaning. Made a little PowerPoint if anyone would like to use it. Let me know and I’ll send :) #EduTwitter #EngChat #TeamEnglish #TeachingResources
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A good knowledge of times tables is so important for accessing the majority of the maths curriculum fluently and confidently. Here’s a poster showing some uses! What else would you add from the primary curriculum? What about the secondary curriculum? https://t.co/pkTw5ybV3y
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👾 POOR PROXIES FOR LEARNING! Just because students are busy, engaged, or writing lots, doesn’t mean they’re learning. Learning happens when students have to think hard! This guide explores poor proxies for learning highlighted by @ProfCoe and what to do instead. ⚗️ Read more
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Data shouldn’t just be about attainment - how are we collecting data on individual contexts so that new teachers each year aren’t surprised? Quick wins - who should be wearing glasses? Any lefties who are sat on the RH end of the table? @Databusting #EducationFest
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As teachers, we are often told WHAT to teach but not always HOW to teach it! Effective teaching includes retrieval practice (recalling information), interleaving (mixing different topics rather than teaching topics in “blocks”), scaffolding (providing temporary supports) and so
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Have you ever wondered what SATs Chen might look like as a toy figure action doll? No, us neither until today! What would you add? #AI #dolltrend #SATs #KS2 #year6 #actiondoll #maths
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If you're looking for spelling resources for the last few weeks before SATS, look no further! There's a whole range of different tasks and activities for all the spelling rules covered in the KS1 and KS2 curriculum. https://t.co/tzodXxbth3
I've added a bit to my mammoth spelling pack, which contains lots of spelling activities in different styles. It's geared towards KS2, but covers rules and patterns from the whole primary curriculum. You can find it here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/idAaIkBsYg
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It's now May, so I am giving away my monthly class set of a book from my bookshop @ANewChapterBks. Simply retweet to win, and please bear me in mind when buying books!
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If it says underline one, you only underline one. Under no circumstances should you underline more than one. For example, if you underline two, that's wrong. Just underline one. If the questions says underline one.....just underline one. Y6:
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🫀 CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING! This new guide dives into the heartbeat of responsive teaching. CFU is crucial for making the invisible visible and capturing data needed to adapt teaching in real time. 🌱 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here:
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New @EducEndowFoundn guidance on the ‘Deployment of Teaching Assistants’ has gone live today. Take a look here: https://t.co/p6BsBs9p5w
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On Monday, our EiM Collaboration Group came together to discuss ‘The GTT: From Principles to Practice’, focusing on Dimension 4: Activating hard thinking. We used this D4 one-pager to facilitate meaningful conversations on how great teachers should present content and activities
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🌟🧠Neurodiversity Celebration Week 🧠🌟 There are many strategies to support neurodiversity in the classroom. Have a look at the strategies below to support those with ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, DLD and Tourette's. #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #Neurodiversityweek #NCW
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If Trump is going to adopt English as the official language of America then he should be paying royalties to England. Obviously we'll let Canada use it for free because a) they're nice and b) half of them prefer French anyway.
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One from the archive: Happiness is the meaning of school. Let me know what you think. https://t.co/WulrGVZIvC
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Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle said that 'Happiness is the meaning of life, the whole aim and end of human existence'. British philosopher David Hulme wrote in the Nineteenth century that, 'The great...
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Does anyone have a list of tier 2 academic words which they use across their whole school (secondary)? I’m compiling one and would really like to compare and see what I’m missing! Will share final results!
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10 years ago, Linkin Park shared an acoustic version of Final Masquerade with fans for free❤️ “We made something cool the other day, and we wanted you to have it. Stripping it down to bare bones brought the sentiment of the song right to the surface.” https://t.co/IHWlMJsd2W
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