David Aldridge
@DavidAAldridge
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Thinking philosophically about teachers and teaching. On Bluesky I am @ DavidAldridge
Joined December 2010
Here’s one for independent researchers out there. I will shortly be publishing journal articles as an independent researcher, but don’t rule out returning to a university at some point. Is there some way I can make my work Green OA without access to an institutional repository?.
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Everyone complaining about Taika Waititi for the new Dredd movie either never read the comics or has somehow missed all the humour.
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RT @MichaelRosenYes: Primary schools! Something useful: the new govt document on Writing goes big on handwriting. No probs, Ruth Miskin has….
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RT @englishspecial: 👀Teach First to be wholly restructured in name and mission as part of new contract for teacher education👀. Government r….
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RT @tes: Exclusive: Schools are being hit by a barrage of parent complaints generated by AI, which are taking up more staff time because th….
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Parents’ use of AI in making complaints means schools are having to deal with complex letters loaded with references to the law, leaders warn
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RT @tes: Teachers are more likely than leaders to report a negative mental health impact from their work, according to government research….
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DfE publishes full report - including findings on behaviour, inspection and flexible working - of its 2024 survey
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Hm. BBC Radio 4 on psychopaths tending to end up in leadership roles in elite institutions really hitting home for me 😂.
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There’s nothing you can’t talk about with students. You just can’t be racist or anti-trans because they will rightly call you out and universities should support them in doing so.
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RT @Trivium21c: “Researchers have now run many studies testing the impact of universal school mental-health interventions and have found th….
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All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
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RT @SecEd_Education: From metacognition to oral language, 10 strands of the popular @EducEndowFoundn Teaching and Learning Toolkit have bee….
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RT @tes: Students’ enjoyment of their education suffers a substantial decline during the first year of secondary school, according to two s….
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Separate studies warn that students’ enjoyment of lessons drops, and stress levels rise, after moving to secondary school
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RT @englishspecial: 👀Breaking News👀. Pupils in England disengage more than other countries when they move to secondary school, Impacted rep….
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RT @PepsMccrea: 14/ Review of RCTs on growth mindset in schools. → finds strongest studies show near-zero impact, so large-scale investment….
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Encouraging the idea of a growth mindset in which students believe that they can improve their ability, as opposed to a fixed mindset, has been suggested as an effective and relatively cheap approa...
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This is a horrible look for Starmer.
If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That’s common sense. So we’re raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.
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RT @PabloPedantic: "We have to do something about the system to ensure that all pupils get World class leading RE" Vanessa Ogden - leading….
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If you work hard in school and behave responsibly in life, you will be able to afford a house with a garden and kids and a dog.
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I want to watch The Return. My local Vue don’t seem to have it. How can I work out when/ how to see it?.
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RT @Janroweljmu: Miss this voice. Always worth listening to. Ready for a new turn in teacher education? | BERA
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This year I retired from my role in teacher education and research, seven years after becoming a professor, and 30 years after mentoring my first student teacher. In the English context I was not...
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RT @BarbaraBleiman: @DavidAAldridge Michael Gove took a sledge hammer to the curriculum & assessment. He had no compunction about doing wha….
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Yes. There’s no great change signalled here, in my view.
Reading the Curriculum & Assessment Review more carefully, I'm struck by how much the word 'mastery' comes up & how deeply embedded it is in the thinking. Yet 'mastery' & the sequential building up of 'foundational' knowledge upon which all else rests, is a highly questionable 1/.
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