J. A. Maxwell
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Headteacher of Carrickfergus Grammar School | Author: Making Every MFL Lesson Count | Passionate about teaching and learning. Views my own.
Joined April 2017
RT @Strickomaster: A classic mistake I often see with Post 16 is assuming the kids are magically going to go & independently study off thei….
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"A stylish woman in a beige coat walking confidently past a moving train at a modern train station.". Create images and videos in seconds with Grok Imagine.
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Weekend reading on the way to Saturday morning rugby. Looking forward to this particular read. @P_A_Kirschner
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RT @Education_NI: Education Minister @paulgivan has today announced a major expansion of the early career teacher induction programme for t….
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RT @NIMTAssoc: After Saturday's conference, membership for the 2025-26 academic year is now officially open. Join us to help plan this yea….
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RT @BarssFreddie: Stunning photo of the Three Sisters in Glencoe . 🏴Beautiful photo by:Stuart Mckay Photography .
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RT @jon_hutchinson_: TEACHING MICRO TIP. Use a visualiser and, whenever possible, show them don’t tell them what you want work to look like….
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New Blog: 'Digging Deep' and 'Lingering Long' with Explicit Instruction
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Exactly why some children don't perform well in end-of-year examinations based on content they learned months prior. Robert Bjork on the sheer importance of spaced, (interleaved) retrieval, and why our pupils must, quite simply, be retrieving prior learning at regular intervals.
“The very conditions that produce forgetting: spacing, change of context, reducing cues… Are the very things that enhance learning when you get a chance study the material again.”. — Robert Bjork
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Why we don’t teach with laptops and why having structure and routine is such a positive aid to learning.
The power of routines . Next week, my Year 8 Maths class are completing a novel type of assessment online. They will need their laptops, which they don’t generally bring to class. As a trial run and to ensure they can log in to the relevant website, we asked all Year 8s to bring.
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RT @DTWillingham: Across subjects and grades (6th-college) prequestions improve learning--new evidence from real classrooms (open) https://….
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RT @ProfDanielMuijs: The results (again!) suggest that explicit teaching is the most appropriate way to help low achievers from disadvantag….
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Six years on and still going strong. Alongside a hike up Kilimanjaro and leading two very fine schools, it remains one of my proudest achievements, and hope it has been of use to many #MFL teachers.
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Truly awful. Memorising Maths facts, including Times Tables at an early stage so that they become automatic in long-term memory, is SO crucial if we want ALL children to succeed, deepen learning in classrooms and expedite effective application of knowledge.
🚨 Unbelievable decision 🚨.Maryland is removing the requirement to know math facts 😱. This flies in the face of decades of research on how kids learn math best. Downplaying the need to know your times tables by heart is a huge mistake that will hurt students.
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On why good behavioural routines in schools are so important.
thetimes.com
Teachers estimate seven minutes every half-hour are lost to disruption and only a third feel confident managing misbehaviour, a survey by the education secretary’s department shows
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"Tough love" works. It is not about schools being mean, but rather caring enough to show pupils explicitly where individual improvement is needed. Be wary of so-called "restorative practices" as they are somtimes presented. They can be counter-productive in instances. 10/10.
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In our Assemblies, we talk a lot with pupils about the cumulation of "marginal gains" and 1% improvements. We talk explicitly about what we think those "marginal gains" are. We praise and encourage childrenat every opportunity, but demonstrate "tough love" when needed. 9/10.
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"Sweat the small stuff". We talk a lot in my school about "looking after the pennies". Litter, uniform, manners, remembering equipment every day, etc. Getting the "small" things right will lead to bigger things falling into place automatically. 8/10.
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