
Mr T
@Mr_C_Thorpe
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Teacher & learner. Aphorism lover. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Joined February 2015
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RT @MattDaviesAdams: Hannah Hampton has no depth perception. She had multiple operations on her eyes before she was 5 years old. She was to….
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RT @C_Hendrick: What is the effect of giving children smartphones before the age of 13? It's bad. Strongly associated with poorer mental he….
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RT @redgierob: A task to send home to encourage reading over the summer. The children could bring it back completed in the autumn to discu….
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RT @teacherhead: Teaching some vs teaching all. This is where the action for improvement lies. via @teacherhead.
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A theme I explore in most of my CPD and coaching work is the challenge of teaching everyone in a class simultaneously and the pitfalls of allowing ourselves to assume some students’ responses…
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RT @Headteacherchat: Quote of the day: “Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life – music, paintings, theate….
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RT @missdarby_: Love these activities to teach sentence structure to our littles. Giving children the opportunity to play around with the s….
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RT @PearceMrs: ✍️✍️ New blog from me - The first in a long time and one of three in a series on Adaptive Teaching. This one looks at what a….
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Adaptive teaching ensures pupils can engage with challenging content while receiving the right level of support or challenge.
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RT @MaryMyatt: New webinars: Supporting pupils with SEND to access the curriculum. There can be a tendency to think that pupils with addit….
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RT @ATMMathematics: This book encourages thinking in a variety of situations including mathematical statements, longer problem solving acti….
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RT @Suchmo83: @gareth_metcalfe's work is always of the highest quality and remarkably good value. I have no doubt that these resources will….
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RT @tombennett71: Which is what?.1. Focussing on the behaviour curriculum.2. Clear boundaries and consequences.3. Whole school systems of r….
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RT @JamesMartinSJ: Jimmy Carter's advice to a young person. My nephew Matthew, now a @Georgetown sophomore, shared this letter with me ye….
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RT @DTWillingham: Always looking for ways, large & small, to encourage my students to read in their leisure time. A few years ago I started….
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RT @lovemybooksUK: @frankcottrell_b stresses the importance of the first thousand days in a child’s life in building the apparatus of happi….
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RT @Mouhssin_Ismail: No school leader makes the decision to suspend or permanently exclude a pupil lightly. Such actions are not taken capr….
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RT @MrBoothY6: We have just finished reading Nevermoor in Year 6, which means there is full whole class reading planning for that, plus all….
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RT @tombennett71: This is an incredibly important point. Suspensions and exclusions are a vital part of the whole behavioural and pastoral….
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RT @AdamMGrant: My new favorite word: sonder. It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of ho….
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RT @naomicfisher: I was talking to a grandmother last week about schooling. ‘I can see the difference’ she said. ‘When my children were you….
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