Mark Enser 🌍
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Very excited to be joining
@Ofstednews
in April.
I have loved the last 19 years in the classroom but I am ready for a new challenge - especially one that allows me to spend more time with the fabulous
#geographyteacher
community.
I’m very happy to be able to confirm that
@EnserMark
will be joining our
@Ofstednews
curriculum unit team as subject lead for geography. Welcome, Mark and we are all very much looking forward to working with you!
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You know what might have helped us to keep this new highly contagious variant suppressed?
CLOSING SCHOOLS IN THE LAST WEEK OF TERM
Like we all said. Muppet.
#ListenToTeachers
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When people say 'schools are safe' what do they mean? Do they mean that children and teachers are unlikely to become ill?
That's not what 'schools are safe' should mean. Schools being safe would mean schools are not places of transmission. They clearly are. That is the issue.
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@rupertevelyn
1) Going in to school to work with children of key workers
2) Setting work for pupils to do remotely
3) Answering questions about this work and giving support
4) Checking, marking and giving feedback
5) Keeping in touch with various pupils who need more help
6) Creating resources
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Teachers coming home from being surrounded by hundreds of people and hearing on the
#DailyBriefing
that people should take personal responsibility to reduce their contact with others...
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You know what this needs? More muppets. And maybe a little bit of Dickens.
But mainly muppets.
#AChristmasCarol
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Watching the government briefing where they seemed to suggest that teachers were "returning to work"
WE HAVEN'T BEEN OFF WORK 🤬
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If I were school leader I'd be absolutely spitting that my Christmas was ruined by track and trace, setting up mass testing and trying to communicate ever changing messages from the DfE to parents.
What an absolute waste of everyone's time. 🤬
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This is absurd. Schools are still open at the moment for children of key workers and teachers are still working with everyone else remotely. Everyone will need a break.
Yet again people who have no idea what is going on in schools being given a platform to spout their nonsense.
Call for schools to open in the summer after lockdown
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I don’t understand what the exam boards have been doing for months in order to give us the past papers we already had.
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"Apologist for failure" (Andrew Adonis, 2020) is going to be an excellent addition to the back cover of my next book 😉
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English and maths are both really important subjects but they aren’t inherently more important than any other.
This fetishisation of English and maths GCSEs by employers and others needs challenging. It’s just lazy.
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Anyone who thinks that teachers wanted schools to partially close because they’d have an easy life, needs to try remote teaching for a week.
It’s a terrible combination of exhausting, difficult, frustrating and boring.
Ofsted found teachers' workload has soared during the pandemic due to remote learning expectations
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****** BREAKING NEWS
I have been told by a senior SOURCE that Location, Location, Location is on TONIGHT and I WILL be having a cup of TEA and a couple of hob NOBS.
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You *achieve* a grade if it is based on a few answers in an exam paper on one day but you don't *achieve* them if they are based on years of work by those who know the pupils best?
Riiiiight 🙄
Correction: GCSE students haven’t *achieved* these grades. They’ve been given them.
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Thank you
@teacherhead
for my present!
Lovely to see some
@Andrew_Adonis
inspired merchandise 😉
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I thought I'd experienced every flavour of teacher tired, but no.
Welcome to
#TAGtired
. Brought to you by DfE incompetence.
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We have a tough few weeks ahead of us, but we’ve got this because we have each other’s backs.
We are one huge team. We are stronger together.
#TeamTeacher
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The
@Ofstednews
subject leads have just released videos for a range of subjects. These include geography, history, science, PE, music and personal development.
All of them explore the idea of conception of quality and curriculum.
You can find them here
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Lots of tweets worried about “EduTwitter tearing itself apart”. Actually, EduTwitter is fine. Loads of teachers getting on with sharing and talking about teaching. They just don’t all have a huge number of followers or positions of influence.
Maybe give them a follow and join in?
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OK comrades - let's get planning.
How will you
#SabotageLessons
?
I plan to write on the whiteboard with my stock of unused yellow board pens. 🧐
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***BIG NEWS***
This is the most exciting tweet I’ll ever write.
I have been asked to write Making Every GEOGRAPHY Lesson Count!
@shaun_allison
&
@atharby
book changed my teaching and got me writing. Over the moon to be adding to the series.
#geographyteacher
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"I don't care if he did set fire to the school dog. He's not doing your bloody detention"
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Kent is a pilot for Grammars - they don't work. London is a pilot for well funded comprehensives. They do work. Do that.
‘Modest pilot’ for grammar schools, says Tory MP Graham Brady | Schools Week < May really is the *undead* walking!
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A year 12 pupil who doesn't take geography asked to sit in for an A Level geography lesson today just because she heard it was interesting.
One of the nicest moments in 16 years of teaching 😊
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@Andrew_Adonis
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago you wrote to OFSTED because you felt schools needed to use live lessons online and teachers explained why this wasn’t successful?
Those same teachers are reading this tweet and holding their heads in their hands.
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“I missed last lesson. Can you send me the PowerPoint?”
No. The lesson doesn’t live on a PPT. I’m the lesson.
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Revisiting Rosenshine for remote learning.
How can we use principles of effective instruction in a remote world?
via
@tes
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Isn't there some kind of law about the ratio of likes to comments telling you that you put out a bad Tweet?
I think we should name it Rupert's Law 🤦♂️
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Remember that teaching is a job that can never be finished and that it will fill any time you allot to it.
Whether you worked in the holiday or not your to-do list will be just as long. Embrace the futility of trying to get everything done and just relax.
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*** NEW POST ***
Setting cover work can be the bane of a teacher's life. After 16 years, I think I may have finally cracked it.
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*** NEW POST ***
The battle between live and pre-recorded lessons rages on - I want to stand up for the humble pre-recorded lesson and suggest that in many cases they may be more suitable for
#RemoteLearning
via
@tes
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So last night
@educationgovuk
email secondary headteachers to say remote education for years 7-10 'as resources permit' and to prioritise exam classes.
This morning they change it to 'prioritise remote learning' for all.
The level of incompetence is breath taking.
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I notice that many people who comment on what teachers should/shouldn’t do in schools, don’t teach in schools. Maybe they should give it a try and see how it works day in day out in the average classroom.
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The British education system seems to have been designed for holding teachers to account rather than for educating children.
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The elements of great teaching are invisible to the naked eye. It comprises of tiny adjustments in response to events as they unfold based on professional knowledge and experience.
We destroy this teaching when we try to make it visible to outside observers.
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Someone needs to point out to
@amanda_spielman
that the reason she hasn't seen evidence of funding cuts harming educational standards is because teachers and school leaders are burning themselves out to protect kids from the worst of it. Not sustainable.
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Dear twitter
There is a teacher out there somewhere teaching kids that climate change is due to “a great big hole in the ozone layer letting in more heat”.
They must be found and they must be stopped.
Yours,
All geography & science teachers
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The talk about whether schools would stay open if there was a local outbreak seems to miss the point. It only takes a few teachers having to self-isolate after a positive test to mean a school can't function. Staffing is cut to the bone.
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You know what’s awesome? Schools.
You know why schools are awesome? Teachers.
You know who knows that? All the people who matter.
Anyway, as you were you beautiful people.
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“Good” schools won’t ask staff to do this. “Scared” schools might do this.
"Good" schools will ask staff to come in over weekends, half term breaks and for "twilight programmes" to help pupils catch up, according to Sir Michael Wilshaw
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I have the whole of today set aside to work on curriculum design. I’m working from home. My school really value middle leaders. I love my school 😍
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@Andrew_Adonis
Just image if you were trying to teach a live lesson online to 30 kids and this kept happening 🤔
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As much as I love decorating the house for Christmas, I also love the feeling of calm you get when the clutter is gone.
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I suspect the reason that the government will eventually have to U-turn on school openings is that they'd otherwise have to U-turn on mass testing in schools.
It turns out testing every kid once a week, and many every day, needs a plan more detailed than "announce testing".
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*** VERY EXCITING NEWS ***
I am really pleased to be able to give you a sneak peak at the cover of my BRAND NEW BOOK!
Powerful Geography: A Curriculum with Purpose in Practice.
Cover art by the wonderful
@jasonramasami
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I’m working from home today. Why? Because my school looks after its middle leaders. Have I mentioned recently how much I love my school 😍
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I really don't want to see schools closed. They do an incredibly important job and tbh, being there is easier than working remotely.
But I struggle to see how a "lockdown" can make much difference if the virus is spread around hundreds of kids in close contact then taken home.
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One day, people are going to remember that parents exist and could take a lead on raising their children. One day.
"Schools should take the lead on teaching children how to cope with the “avalanche” of pressure they face on social media, says England's children’s commissioner
@annelongfield
",
@tes
:
(Just add it to the list...)
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Matt Hancock
"We need to do everything we can to stop the spread among school age children in London right now"
But not *everything* we can...
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Schools and teachers have done whatever the government has demanded of them throughout this pandemic and bent over backwards to make whatever poorly thought out policies they came up with work.
We don't need to change schools. We need to change governments.
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Gavin Williamson recommending a knowledge rich curriculum could not have come at a worst time for those of us with books coming out on knowledge rich curriculum.
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They have had months to get this right. The level of incompetence is just breathtaking. I think we are rapidly approaching the point where they are just going to have to give the CAG however flawed that is.
It may now be the least worst option.
An announcement about 'valid' mocks and A-level appeals has been abruptly withdrawn and replaced with an Ofqual statement saying the criteria are being reviewed…
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And on day 7 it came to pass that he tested negative twice in two days and so was freed into the wild
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This is going to be a very weird final week.
Good luck everybody.
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Really delighted to have been asked to be a subject advisor on the new
@OakNational
geography curriculum.
Good to see system leadership in action.
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Like most teachers, I want to be back as soon as it is safe to do so. However, having this kind of certainty would make it much easier to put plans in place for remote learning.
We could really do with a clear plan for the rest of this year and for how next year might look.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio says public schools will remain closed for the remainder of the academic year amid the covid-19 outbreak
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*** NEW POST ***
Asking, who gets given the feedback?
Is it true that “Pupils need the opportunity to do something with the feedback you give them"?
What if we turned it on its head?
via
@tes
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NEW POST - If you are asking secondary school teachers to mark books every two weeks you need to resign. Here's why -
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I’ve checked. This isn’t a parody account. This is an actual person sat in an armchair trying to judge what schools are doing in the middle of a global pandemic.
Like an absolute tool.
This may be a new low.
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As we hurtle towards a new term, here is my advice on making teaching a do-able job. There is always a better way.
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I think this session on effective teacher talk was the best use of department time we have ever had 🤔
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Here we go again.
Just remember, we are one huge team and we have each other’s backs. Good luck out there.
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Sadly, our school system is geared around getting pupils through high stakes exams at the end of a course. You can't change that in a few months - never mind the practical issue of planning an entire new non-exam curriculum for them.
Ofsted out of touch with reality again.
Schools should not send exam-year pupils home early, says Ofsted head
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Well isn't this a shock.
Lord "Lazy schools need to do more about online learning" Adonis has financial interests in *checks notes* online learning 🙄
@NewbieSlt
@paysupplystaff
@Andrew_Adonis
has financial interests in GEMS, which offers online learning:
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I’d just like to send this to every person who has ever told me
“Knowledge is less important than the ability to think creatively”
😉
Get a load of Dr. Birx's demeanor after Trump tells her, "I would like you to speak to the medical doctors to see if there's any way that you can apply light and heat to cure [coronavirus]."
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The Ensers have moved!
Came to the Yorkshire Dales in the summer and fell in love with the place. Have just picked up the keys to our new house. Looking forward to doing it up between walks in the hills.
@greeborunner
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Do you remember when people paid for ring tones?
Crazy times.
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*** VERY BIG NEWS ***
My new book Teach Like Nobody’s Watching is available for pre-order on Amazon!
This book asks “what would teaching be like if we left it to the teachers?” Subversive stuff.
#TLNW
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Doing things so we are seen to be doing things has always been a problem in education.
I'm really worried this is being exacerbated by unclear and/or unrealistic expectations on remote learning.
As professionals, need to do what works - not what looks good to others.
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How can tomorrow only be Thursday! I’d swear that yesterday’s tomorrow was also Thursday. How many Thursdays is this week going to have? 😖
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Watching Jaws - the mayor is VERY insistent the beaches stay open no matter what. I wonder if Boris Johnson only watched this far... 🤔
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Trying to follow what
@GavinWilliamson
is saying and I am none the cleaner. What is happening on the 4th and for whom?
This is the most muddled statement I have heard!
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My first video for
@Ofstednews
as Geography Subject Lead. It explores curriculum considerations in primary and secondary geography.
Hopefully it will be useful for department CPD and/or network meetings.
#geogchat
#geographyteacher
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We have had The Call. Looking forward to helping show
@Ofstednews
just what
@Heathfield_CC
is made of. We have a lot to be proud of. No idea how they’ll see it all in two days!
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There are two ways of responding to this study.
1) This level of inequality in our wealthy nation is inexcusable and we need economic policy to address it.
2) Cram them into schools during a pandemic. That'll fix it.
Keeping schools closed in England will widen inequalities – study
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Dear Gods. He is now teaming up with Michael "if teachers aren't stressed you aren't doing a good enough job" Wiltshaw in his bizarre campaign to force ineffective live online lessons on us.
There's a plot twist I didn't see coming.
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I wonder if anyone took the time to speak to the other 29 pupils in the class about how distressed and anxious the behaviour of this child may have made them feel if left in the classroom 🤔
.
@annelongfield
said children had told her they feel “very anxious” and “distressed” about isolation booths, and said the booths would “probably be one of the last things to benefit them” if they had been sent there because of behaviour problems via
@geomr
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Very happy with the results for the first year of my Masters.
Tbh, it would have been a little embarrassing if it turned out I didn't know what I was banging on about 🧐
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A whole paper from Rosenshine just on the use of scaffolding 🤤
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I've had a couple of glasses of wine but did I just see a little Pride flag car deliver the football? I hope I did because it was fabulous.
#Euro2020Final
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Last April I was walking in to work along an almost empty road. Now there is a constant stream of traffic.
This may be a greater issue than the carefully orchestrated debate over how far you can go to exercise.
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This is ridiculous. Announce a payrise for teachers but no additional funding for it. THERE IS NO MONEY.
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When schools look to make money from other schools we have a serious problem. I’ve yet to meet an actual teacher who won’t freely share schemes of work and resources.
This is deeply troubling.
Ark's new Curriculum Plus programme will cover the 'major subjects' and be sold to other schools
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I've heard a lot of stupid ideas from the DfE in my time but this may be the worst.
GCSE and A-level students in England will be able to use grades in mock exams to progress to university and college courses and employment,
@GavinWilliamson
is set to announce
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I can save these experts some time.
Fund a reduction in contact time. Remove some of those pressures by removing arbitrary and flawed accountability measures. Let teachers teach.
That’ll do.
A new expert advisory group will be announced by
@DamianHinds
today, with the aim of looking at how teachers can be better supported to deal with the pressures of the job
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I think we should all start every lesson like this in september 😉
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