https://t.co/JvVNkUK8ix Teaching: art form or science? It’s undoubtedly BOTH. Teaching is more than imparting knowledge. It is greater than the sum of its parts & certainly not painting by numbers! @Education_NI @Ed_Authority @tgeducation @DrWHKitchen #TransformED

https://t.co/cVWtxoM2RN… Real reform builds on success. TransformED risks breaking strong parts of NI education while chasing theory over practice — exactly the mistake Ken Robinson cautions against. #EducationNI @Education_NI #TransformED

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Sobering reading. Highlights exactly why NI must avoid repeating England’s mistakes: ideological reforms, diminished teacher professionalism, & policy made above the heads of those who deliver it. We need open, honest, locally grounded conversations, not pre-packaged solutions.

RE & Collective Worship in NI Schools

Don’t ask questions if your not prepared to hear the answers …

Being a primary head is a ‘very stressful and lonely job’ https://t.co/nYnPB8Io7l

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Teachers in England say they would strike over pay

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Workload was the core issue & still is. Hoping this deal sticks but does more than a band-aid re workload. Timeframes for delivery of reforms in place & November will also come around fast. Thank you to the various unions who have risked their credibility on accepting this deal

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43,522 teachers left the profession last year. The government’s plan to recruit 6,500 new ones is nowhere near enough. Rachel Reeves had the chance to give schools the funding they urgently need in her spring Statement. She didn’t. Vote now to send the government a message

USA vs NI “I Get Paid for 180 Days of Work Each Year, but I Actually Work More Than 250.” (USA) NI teachers work 195. “Hours of Instruction in the Classroom: 1,170” NI teachers 1,265. Image below relates to US. NI & GB would be at least equivalent if not significantly more

If only @Education_NI @Ed_Authority could see further than the end of their own noses, they might realise that teachers wanting WORKLOAD dynamically addressed is actually them WANTING to deliver for children: providing deep & focussed provision. Teaching is our CORE business. 3/3

& liberate them from the admin-heavy, bureaucratic, addresses all of societies ills remit, that they currently have to carry? 2/3

One benefit of being a veteran teacher, is you can remember the good ideas before some academics & politicians branded them ‘bad ideas’ & removed them, only to now reintroduce as ‘good ideas’. I believe in a knowledge rich curriculum but how will @Educ_NI free teachers to teach

Sample-based, non-attributable assessments like this can help provide a check on system-level performance. Important they are not used at school or pupil levels - not just that they’re not published at those levels - as their primary role should be to check policy effectiveness.

Just remember: teachers probably impact more people in one year than an average person does in an entire lifetime. You are worth your weight in gold!

Every Executive party except the DUP has agreed that minor works processes for allocating millions of pounds in funding to Northern Ireland schools require a ‘review and audit’. https://t.co/NYu6Ky2oZn

Is there a cast iron commitment to accept the findings of any such Independent Review? Only 3 members? We all know what CAN happen to Independent Review reports: remember Bengoa?