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Today I will complete the final draft of my new book,
#GuideToFeedback
(book no. 12).
I am confident GTF will support many schools to transform how they view formative assessment in the classroom, and more importantly, how we currently evidence and quality assure classroom…
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It's important to note that the impending
#TeacherStrike
is NOT just about teacher pay!
It's also about:
1. Underfunded schools
2. Squeeze on the school day/hours
3. Teacher workload; one of the highest in the world!
= The means, ALL pupils get less quality teaching!
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Education MPs who voted 'NO' to feeding children living in
#poverty
, during a global 🌍 pandemic.
@GavinWilliamson
- Our leader...
@NickGibbUK
- School Standards
@michelledonelan
- Universities
@GillianKeegan
- Apprenticeships
@vickyford
- Children's Minister!
#FreeSchoolMeals
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Everytime
#TobyYoung
trends, my Fairy Godmother says to me "you must tweet that video."
So, here you go folks.
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It takes a strong school community to make a public stand. 👏🏻
This is a powerful moment of silence
Not everyone will agree, but everyone in some shape or form will agree that Ofsted policy needs reformed for pupils, parents and teachers.
Ofsted does …
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A round of applause 👏🏻 for
@amanda_spielman
“Schools are not required to deliver online learning...”
@Andrew_Adonis
, you may want to watch what the ‘current’ head of
@Ofstednews
says on remote teaching on offer by schools/teachers.
(Credit:
@SophyRidgeSky
)
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I literally have 100s of interview questions for: new to teaching; subject teaching; TLR, middle leader and senior leadership positions.
If you think that's a resource worth sharing/downloading, press the 'like' button (on this tweet) and I'll get to work!
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My Top-10 Differentiation Strategies for Students by
@TeacherToolkit
. More here:
#ITTchat
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3 things for every school in 2017?
1. Remove OfSTED banners from gates
2. Stop emails from 7pm - 7am
3. Integrate staff CPD into timetable.
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Once upon a time, there was a school.
Every week they would mark books.
One day they discovered
#VerbalFeedback
was more immediate.
Because of that, they stopped marking.
Because of that, they created a workload free academic year.
It led to teacher happiness 😁
The end.
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10 things government can do to support schools in 2021
1. Vaccinate all teachers
2. Pause inspections
3. Empower LEAs
4. Laptop 100% allocation
5. Fund lost costs
6. Stop threatening schools
7. Publish guidance early
8. Year group rotas
9. Talk to HTs
10. Rebuild trust
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5 things all teachers should try this academic term:
1. Less marking
2. Read a piece of research
3. Speak publicly at staff CPD
4. Shadow someone else’s role
5. Visit another school, working outside of your experience/knowledge.
Happy New Year; best wishes for the term ahead
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You may be all edtech-savvy on Twitter, but are you old enough to remember teaching with one of these?
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Goodbye teacher recruitment
Goodbye teacher retention
Goodbye school funding
Goodbye LEAs
Goodbye PPAs
👋🏻
Hello EBacc
Hello SATs
Hello selection
Hello Ofsted
Hello knowledge-curriculum
#ElectionDay2019
#UKElection
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10 things teachers never have time to do:
1. Buy a book of stamps
2. Dry cleaning
3. Go for a walk
4. Read any research
5. Wait for finance to sign a cheque
6. Eat lunch
7. Mark books (properly)
8. Attend child’s sports day
9. Meet someone for lunch
10. Hide behind a keyboard
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School leaders:
Please give your teachers some time during the training day to organise their classrooms. This shouldn’t be something expected after INSET hours; after all, the classroom is our core business, so it must be given the time it deserves.
#SLTchat
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Teaching is such a busy job that it's easy to forget to do the basics!
MUST tidy up the desktop 🗑️ screensaver ...
🧠
#GuideToMemory
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The average lifespan of a teacher in an English state school is approximately 13 years.
🙌🏼 Hands up if you've passed this threshold and are still going?
What one thing should the DfE do to keep those who leave early, for longer?!
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Once upon a time there was a teacher.
Every day they would mark books.
One day they discovered that verbal feedback was more meaningful.
Because of that, they stopped marking.
Because of that they got a workload free Christmas 🎄
It led teacher happiness 😁
The end.
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Whatever you are doing this weekend:
1. Leave the marking bag alone
2. Read a book 📚
3. Meet non-teacher friends👨🎤
4. Travel 🧳
5. Netflix binge 🍿
6. Exercise 🏃♂️
7. Sleep 🛏
8. Plan nothing 🤷🏽♀️
9. Maybe do some work! 👨🏼💻
10. Write a bucket list.📝
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To every headteacher who is NOT 'live streaming classroom lessons', I respect your decision to do so. I would much rather every child in the country is not living below the poverty line before we want them to log in at home...
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If it’s safe for teachers to return, it’s safe for our politicians too. Personally, until the government publish the scientific evidence, all teachers should remain cautious...
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Quick, grab a copy of "Differentiated Questioning Template" for teachers!
#TuesdayMotivation
#aussieEd
#edchat
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Teacher starting salaries in England are not £30,000.
For any education secretary to gain the respect of a profession they represent, we need them to know the specifics and be truthful/accurate with the media and general public.
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#HomeSchooling
tips for parents
1. Set 🛌 an alarm 🚨
2. Have structure/timings
3. 20-minute chunks 🧠
4. Stop 🛑 if it’s hard, do it later
5. Read 📖 together every day
6. Do the maths too! 🔢
7. Go 🌳 outside, play if needed
8. Monitor screen time 📱
9. Plan breaks/food.
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If parents do not feel confident about sending their children into school, then we have quite a problem, not just schools. It may be wise to delay until September, or at least until parental confidence improves (as and when safety, testing and PPE increases).
#SLTchat
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Anyone remember the days when you HAD to spend hours writing out a worksheet before you could get it printed on a banda-machine? This one of mine from 1993!
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47 Ideas 💡 for Teachers To Teach Remotely 👩🏾💻 >>
Live video 🎥 by
@TeacherToolkit
>>
Don’t reinvent the wheel; manage communications; have a routine; know the technology; remember vulnerable pupils and keep safeguarding a high priority.
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I challenge the profession to find another headteacher’s office which a) isn’t corporate and b) is flooded with pupils work on display!
Absolutely amazing! 💥
Chris Dyson of Parklands Primary School,
#Leeds
.
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School leaders can reduce workload for teachers overnight in 3 quick fixes:
1. Remove colours from marking policies
2. Remove frequency from marking policies
5. Assume meetings are the equivalent cost as a lesson. Are they needed? Effective? Cut down the time by 30 minutes.
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Well done to every single teacher, headteacher, governor and all support staff working in schools this week during unprecedented times… Where possible, you deserve the most relaxing weekend ever!
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Teachers are not motivated by salary or targets, they do not leave teaching (predominantly) because of behaviour or pay, they leave teaching because of workload and the increasing requests to complete meaningless tasks that provide little or no value to their moral compass.
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I know what can improve teacher quality:
1. Stop measuring teachers
2. Invest in teacher development
3. Give them time to mark/plan
#ewf2017
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MPs versus Teachers:
No. of days work:
MPs x150
Teachers x195
Payrise:
MPs 1.4%
Teachers 1%
Benefits:
MPs - expenses
Teachers - marking
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The Seven Traits of Highly Effective Teachers
1. Passion 😍
2. Planned and organised ⏱️
3. Reflective and open minded 🖼️
4. Comfortable taking risks 🏔️
5. Collaborative 👥
6. Breaks down barriers ✌🏾
7. Consistent ✅
#ukedchat
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Have seen a similar technique like this in India - Vedic maths.
See how the
#Japanese
do it 👇🏼
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What could the government have done the week before schools closed for Christmas?
1. Closed schools earlier
2. Delayed all schools opening
3. Deployed 100% laptops
4. Sent guidance early re. testing
5. Train teachers
6. Share remote learning ideas
7. Pull their finger out!
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EVERY student in EVERY school should be told the story of Jo Cox: democracy, the bedrock of our society
#Assemblies
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5 Resolutions for All Schools in 2018!
What will your headteacher commit to?
1. Remove
#OfSTEDbanners
from gates
2. Stop grading lessons / teachers
3. Stop grading book 📚 looks
4. Integrate staff CPD into timetable
5. Reduce meetings by 50%.
#SLTchat
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Just reading up on a school who is managing staff wellbeing: Every week they arrange ‘Thank yous’ and birthdays. "We also ask ‘Is there anything to shout-out about?’ and do ‘Staff of the Term.’ All staff nominate someone who has gone the extra mile = they get paid a day’s leave."
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I’ve just walked past a school, with an OFSTED outstanding badge, made from acrylic, drilled to the outside of their school gates.
If we all stopped doing this kind of stuff, we’d remove any kind of OfSTED obsession parents and teachers have with inspection.
#OfSTEDBanners
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Okay, hands up!
Who knows what this is? Could you jump over it?
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Every SLT should print this out and stick up on your office wall on Monday morning! ...
#SLTchat
http://t.co/b9oP3krCse
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Guru? Absolutely not!
Influential? Perhaps.
Up close and personal in
@GuardianEdu
today...
#parentingtips
#backtowork
#backtoschool
#ukedchat
#SLTchat
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For the record, I love Michael Rosen and I'd have him in my son's classroom any day of the week...
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To the 33% of students who achieved a grade 1-3 in whatever subject(s).
The Government do not recognise your grades as a ‘pass’; your teachers will be proud of you and your school will be able to give you the advice you need.
Don’t give up.
#GCSEResultDay2018
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Sad to hear of the passing of teacher, Kate Fox, of Thorns Collegiate Academy in the West Midlands. 🙁
Only yesterday the Department for Education published that teachers do not need personal protection equipment.
#coronavirusuk
#Newsnight
#Peston
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Stay alert 🚨
Control the virus 🦠
Save lives 👥
Even better:
Stay home 🏡
Find a vaccine 💉
Keep homeschooling 👩🏼🏫 and trust our teachers 🤞🏽
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It needs to be said again and again. I have huge admiration for all school leaders and teachers keeping the education system running across the UK at this time. The complexity, the workload, the decision-making being made on a day-to-day level will never, ever really be captured.
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"Privately, headteachers are very angry at the moment – not because they don’t wish to serve at this time of national crisis, but because it makes little sense.
Frustrations include:
1. Being at risk
2. In school during holiday periods
3. Being told they don’t need PPE."
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I've been working with
@TeachActive
~last 6 months.
Did you know they have some fabulous wellbeing resources for primary pupils/schools?
Over 3,000+ lesson plans!
👩🏽💻 Free Trial
📅 Book Demo
#ads
#SLTchat
🏆 Award-winners too!
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5 tips for
#TeacherTwitter
and returning to school:
1. At work, focus Mark. Plan. Teach.
2. Speak up! Don’t ignore problems
3. Read, research and engage with your subject
4. Find someone who challenges you
5. Away from work, focus better on your physical and mental health.
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A teacher wellbeing policy for schools throughout 2020 - 10 ideas to get you started...
#JustGreatTeaching
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OfSTED are going to focus on the bigger picture. This wonderful comment in Schools Week sums up education in England
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A fantastic piece of engineering 👏🏻
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As we come to an end of another
#halfterm
, having worked with teachers in multiple locations, I can tell the government this for free.
Teachers are exhausted
Schools are working hard!
Learning online is at a much slower pace to face-to-face lessons
Schools are underfunded!
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Finland 🇫🇮
No private schools
First examination at 16
No selection
Teachers qualified to MA level
Highly regarded by the public
An investment in the future of the country...
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Christmas 🎄 Competition
WIN one ☝🏻 of 9 copies of
#MarkPlanTeach
,
#VitruvianTeaching
or
#EducationForward
books 📚
1. Like this
2. RT / share
3. Tag a friend / TT
Winners will be chosen on Sunday 10th December and a book will be sent in the post 📮 to you 📫
#ukedchat
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My
#TipsForYear7s
:
1. Ask
2. Listen
3. Wear uniform
4. Have a full pencil case
5. Do your homework
6. Find a passion
7. Report bullying!
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Non-uniform day was a real chore as a teacher; the impact on teaching and learning as well as behaviour was a challenge the day before and on the day itself. As a parent (this morning), it is just as much drama at home. Therefore, I conclude, non-uniform day is wasted effort...
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The Seven Traits of Highly Effective Teachers
1. Passion 😍
2. Planned and organised ⏱️
3. Reflective and open minded 🖼️
4. Comfortable taking risks 🏔️
5. Collaborative 👥
6. Breaks down barriers ✌🏾
7. Consistent ✅
#edchat
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Wishing every teacher and school leader the very best at this challenging time; keep up the amazing work you are doing with your school communities.
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Imagine if
@BorisJohnson
sent a message like this message to our kids, parents and teachers, the world would be a little happier...
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It's not everyday one has a chat about teaching & learning; neuroscience & teacher training on London Underground. Meet Lord Rob Winston!
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Spare a thought for all our amazing teachers going back to work tomorrow, being supported (or not) by hundred of thousands of journalists, politicians and policy-wonks stating pupils must go back to school from the comfort of their homes...
Teachers. I salute you. 👏🏻
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@urban_teacher
I really don't know how they sleep at night; party politics over moral compass. I wonder what impact this decision will have on outcomes, attendance, abuse or crime. If only we could gather this data, we could hold politicians to account for their actions.
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Sometimes the richest and most influential
#teacher
professional development is the teacher next door to your
#classroom
.
Today, make time to:
Observe for 5 ⏰ minutes
Have a cup of tea ☕️ together
Assess 📝 a piece of work
Share a resource 🤝
Talk 🗣 to their students
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I don’t have a problem with 4, 6 and 11 year olds being tested in our primary schools. Testing knowledge is good. The real issue is ‘how’ the data is used for school accountability, which leads to all sorts of interesting things we see happening in some of our secondary schools.
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I strongly oppose the opening of schools next month, on the lack of scientific evidence - and government consultancy with teacher unions.
Children get 2,090 days of education, another few days is worth waiting for...
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I'd encourage all schools to not have a marking policy, because it'll be used against you in an OFSTED inspection. Plus, is not statutory!
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Once upon a time, there was a teacher.
Every day they would mark books.
One day they discovered that
#VerbalFeedback
was more meaningful.
Because of that, they stopped marking.
Because of that, they got a workload free
#HalfTerm
It led to teacher happiness 😁
The end.
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One thing
@BorisJohnson
could do is involve all headteachers in managing schools. Daily briefings at 5PM are unhelpful if schools have gone home for the day and school leaders have to prepare for the day ahead. Lack of any decision on school closures is increasing anxiety...
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Imagine a school where:
Every classroom door is OPEN
NO lesson observations
NO performance management
Teachers using their TIME for displays
Pupils, BEFORE SATs are happy.
It can happen.
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Teachers already KNOW the answers! 🤓
This is why you DO NOT NEED ❌ a copy of
#GuideToMemory
this holiday season ... 🎄
🟢
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The largest teaching union in the country (with ½ million members) has written to
@BorisJohnson
three times = received no response. Come on
@GavinWilliamson
. Failure to engage will prolong lockdown for the country - teachers shouldn’t be last to know.
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Teachers influence little and big people.
#BritainsGotTalent
🌟 FIRST GOLDEN BUZZER OF THE SERIES 🌟 (we're not crying, YOU'RE crying) Flakefleet Primary School have a pass straight to the semi-finals
#BGT
#BritainsGotTalent
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Teachers - it's
#HalfTerm
! 🤪
I have one IPEVO (V4K Ultra HD) USB Visualiser to give away (worth £99) plus a signed copy of
#100Ideas
and two A4 questioning/lesson planning pads! 💥
To enter:
1. Retweet this
2. the GIF Reply to sum up this half term.
GO! ⛳️
#TTkitCompetition
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3 things to save England’s teaching profession from another retention crisis this year (when the DfE workforce census is published in July)
1. Free coffee ☕️
2. More 🏖 holidays
3. Ban 🚫 marking.
You?
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When your child wakes up and says, “Dad, can you read me a book?”
You know you developing a love for reading.
My top tips for parents:
1. Read EVERY day
2. Talk about books
3. Use various mediums
4. Practice difficult words
5. Make them read aloud
#literacy
#SocialMedia
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If anyone needs a reminder.
Teachers across England work the longest hours and receive one of the lowest salaries in all OECD countries.
Research shows that the public's perception of teachers' pay/hours also doesn't correlate with reality.
Go, on, ask me for the research.
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There are 4 million children in the U.K. living in poverty. Some do not eat a hot meal.
We need Free School Meals!
Food campaigner and
@Channel4
presenter
@jamieoliver
expresses his disappointment at the Tory plan to scrap free school lunches for infants
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Easter 🐣 Competition
WIN one ☝🏻 of 9 copies of
#MarkPlanTeach
,
#VitruvianTeaching
or
#EducationForward
books 📚
1. Like this
2. RT / share
3. Tag a friend / TT
Winners chosen at random on Sunday 8th April 2018 and a book will be sent in the post 📮 to you 📫
#edchat
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Read.
Read to your child.
Every night.
The end...
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A photo of me struggling as a school leader and one ☝🏼 year later. It’s vital that we talk to one another how about our mental health - how to identify it in ourselves and others, and what to do about it. Me? It took me 3 times to take action.
#WorldMentalHealthDay2019
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Teachers everywhere - my goodness, do you deserve a break! Wishing you a well-earned rest over the holiday season 🎄
Sleep.
Eat.
Drink.
Repeat.
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I really feel for headteachers right now. What a terrible night you must have had...
#SLTchat
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Dear God.
Please can we have a new education Secretary of State who actually supports teachers and raises the profile of teaching with the general public.
Amen 🙏🏼
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Tops tips for school leaders 💥
1. Replace “marking” with “feedback”
2. Commit to teacher
#MentalHealth
discussions for TEACHERS
3. Remind teaching staff what you have stopped doing.
4. Share your financial pressures.
5. Protect your staff from OfSTED doom and gloom.
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Teachers can only thrive if they are able to do a job which is not only rewarding, but doable within the working week.
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1. Thanks to
@olicav
for sketching up
#MarkPlanTeach
25 years of teaching & learning experience; trial & error; research; participation in trials; 1,000s of lessons taught & observations - all on one page.
Grab a copy 📕 ~14,000 copies sold
[Thread]
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Verbal feedback has a positive impact on students and has no detrimental effects.
Live video 🎥 by
@TeacherToolkit
The
#VerbalFeedbackProject
Research and its Findings.
#TTkitVLOG
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