
James Gurung
@jamesgurung
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Deputy Head for Quality of Education. Formerly Behaviour & Culture, KS4, Head of Maths. Creator of https://t.co/9I44tqkR88. Views are my own.
Birmingham, UK
Joined June 2009
I've been able to create a Data Zone deployment of gpt-5 in Sweden Central, but when I try to do the same for gpt-5-mini it says I have no quota. Is this a known issue? I haven't got any other deployments of this model yet. Any help appreciated! @azure @msdev @nicholasdbrady
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Heads of Maths if you’re not already using https://t.co/3qhSoSdBeI then you really need to take a look. Have been playing with the free trial for a week with a v.small sample of our year 10 end of year assessments and it’s a real game changer! Also the support from James is 5⭐️
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Thank you @unleashing_me for your inspiring session at today's @MercianTrustCPD conference. You've challenged us to think about what it really means to be at the "heart of our community", with practical examples from your brilliant work at @ChilternLT.
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The joy of seeing behaviour improve and the scales tilting towards positivity and learning cannot be overstated. I've seen it happen twice in two challenging contexts. If you think the aim of the above is control then you've missed the point.
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When will schools wake up? A pre-published, groundbreaking study has found that for “deeper reading” there is a clear advantage to reading a text on paper, rather than on a screen, where “shallow reading was observed”. https://t.co/6Aj6chwq2j
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(3) The act of retrieving information from memory is a "dynamic process that alters the subsequent state of the system" When we remember something, we almost rewrite it again. This is why memory is so untrustworthy. Remembering is an active process that can reinforce or modify
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Three main things to focus on for student learning: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 you teach (curriculum) 𝗛𝗼𝘄 it’s taught (instruction) and 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 they’ve learned it (assessment). You can focus on tangential things like generic skills, growth mindset, grit, metacognition, engagement, SEL,
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THREAD: Some schools have great behaviour. But I’m interested in how you IMPROVE behaviour. I’ve only ever worked in turnaround situations, and these are the specific whole school policies I’ve seen work. In order of effectiveness:
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Leaders! Two terms to delete from your vocabulary: Quality assurance Non-negotiables Whether or not the things contained within these terms are useful is one thing, but as terms they are toxic for achieving any kind of positive vibes around teacher performance.
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I've created an open-source AI app that schools can deploy to assist teachers with common educational and administrative tasks. It's a thin wrapper around OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4, and a great alternative to emerging commercial products. #ai #edtech
https://t.co/j3NMgltflb
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@oldandrewuk School attempts to enforce a rule, despite several adults trying to persuade, S refuses to follow a reasonable instruction, they swear at adults/smash stuff up/flip tables in full view of others. Head suspends & the apologists repackage/present as ‘suspended for wrong uniform.’
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@adamboxer1 @Clement86234462 Yup. Why on earth spend precious minutes creating something pointless, and purely for show, when you could spend those minutes doing the serious, difficult work of curricular thinking. It's a triumph of form/show over substance. Nothing about it means the curriculum is any good.
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It’s worth considering if teachers are forever running decentralised detentions, restorative chats, chasing pupils to attend these things etc then what are they not doing with that time... Time is finite. It’s about opportunity cost. I imagine the curriculum ends up 2nd place.
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When you return to school, ensure you deliver the high expectations messages on line up, in assembly, on transition, at break, at lunch, in the classroom, in a warm and welcoming manner....relate to your anchors (your values). 35 days to make a difference
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I fear schools/trusts too often fear aggressive parents, fear they’ll go to press/ofsted/governors/trustees. When we fear unreasonable parents we allow those parents to decide school culture. That’s a dereliction of duty on part of head/trust.
Behaviour in some of our schools is unacceptable and we need to be honest about this. Leaders needs to be empowered and supported to deal with it. Brushing it under the carpet and down playing the problem does nobody any good.
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Classic e.g, teachers in V position in-between lessons to ensure smooth transition/visibility. By wk 2 only 1/3 of teachers are out, system fails because leaders are not relentless. You need behaviour nudges to create habits & the insistence of it happening every lesson 3/3
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Schools are STILL promoting 100% attendance certificates and rewards?! Please stop.
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Last week a parent told me that they had had a letter to say that their 5-year-old was a persistent absentee, and that if his attendance improved by 5% he would be invited to an Improved Attenders party. Here's why policies like this should stop. (with @_MissingTheMark) 1/
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