I always look forward to the Festival of Education as a big highlight of the year. Thrilled to be speaking on all things teacher development in these four sessions, alongside some of my most favourite educators. And of course, to catching up with friends and colleagues in the (hopefully!) sunshine.
Male colleague popped round to handful of us peri menopausal types ahead of pm assembly to advise us the hall was hotter than hell &we might want to be late/ go on site patrol rather than be stuck in the space for the whole 1/2 hr🥰 #menopause #teaching #hotweather #allyship @womened.bsky.social
What I don't have ...
- big corporate offices
- swanky website
- marketing team
What I do have ...
- years of teaching experience
- even more years of the profession as a whole
- empathy and understanding
Staff wellbeing deserves an expert - nourishtheworkplace.com
#EduSky which checkers (paid for) are best for detecting AI use given that it is so easy for pupils to get AI to generate them human sounding work these days that the free ones don’t pick up?
Where do you see the lines (or not) between ideology and research methods? How does one “choose” and evaluate perspectives and research as an academic?
Hi Paul. Just starting out on my MA so this is a genuine query. Used your work a lot when I did my CTeach.
When I attempted an MA before one our first tasks was to look at the political bias of journals & how even research methods are politically weighted. Here’s my query 1/2
Any of my #EduSky community managed FT teaching and an MA and life…. Thought I was smashing life but currently very much not and would love some tips
We’re particularly interested in hearing the views and experiences of children & young people around curriculum and assessment.
If you have a school council or pupil leadership team, coordinating a response to the call for evidence could be a really meaningful activity.
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Read that last year. It was but not in the way I expected. Would be interested to know your thoughts when you are done with it… I could t decide what I thought about it.
What #Secondary #EduSky have been observing for 3yrs seems to have a medical basis…
Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds
Things I’ve tried in the first week back &failed at:
-Balancing work/ caring for my Dad
-using the new photocopier
-eating healthily
-getting ‘big’ jobs done
-finishing the research paper I was writing
-staying on a horse
Like the horse, I will get back on the other stuff &keep trying #EduSky
Had some me time this evening. Didn’t quite go to plan.
Good
#EduSky 🍎
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Let’s continue to grow this platform in the manner it has started - a wonderfully collegiate, informative, interesting space for educators everywhere. Hurrah! @collegeofteaching.bsky.social @ascl-uk.bsky.social
Yes. Exactly. I forget why we moved from CAT to CEM (happened about 7yrs ago)…. I think because of the level of big data and VA analysis you get.
Yes. And again in year 10. CEM gives verbal, non verbal and numerical reasoning scores which generates predictive data for subject outcomes.
Value added is my personal and professional benchmark, cross referenced with headline figures and pastoral knowledge. We use CEM as our VA benchmark as it’s a standardised scoring system. headline figs are important as we have had zero or very low non pass figs. Pastoral = SEMH awareness.
6hrs of meetings +training yesterday; 61/2 hrs of meetings today.
Funnily enough after all that sitting, getting on a horse this evening was a bit of a challenge- hips &knees feel like someone has put them in a blender. Sitting is bad for you!
Thank heaven for actually getting to teach tomorrow.
To the newbies:
congrats on joining the best profession in the world; planning & marking do get easier; It can be a life long career; By the end of the year the good days will have out weighed the bad; This level of tired is normal but not permanent; make friends with support staff. #EduSky
Swedish is like Linux. It's quite obvious how the language works, and you can make your own words.
French is Apple. Try to make your own modifications and they will SEND YOU TO JAIL.
English is your grandparents' PC. We have no idea how it works. Where did all these weird plug-in words come from??
First day back done. Tired.
Going to give half hour to an Edu colleague in a FB group that wants to explore her results a bit this morning, then off to London for a Burrito with the boy, the British museum and to pick up my student ID ahead of starting my MA with UCL.
#LastDayOfTheHolidays #Back2School
One of my ancestors is the reason Lavenham church has little/no stained glass, very few carvings &a musket ball hole in the ceiling … 17th C professional fanatic and vandal in the name of Puritanism
My Dad is dying. My friends from uni decided our next sleepover meet up should be in the town where he lives so I can “duck out when needed” rather than having to miss out. Get yourselves friends like that folks. 25yrs ago we were flung together in a flat. Bloody good match making #CardiffUniversity
Thank you. Will have a hunt around. Last few times web has only ever shown me Maidstone.
Bank holiday Monday vibes….
Where? I’m in your area and can’t ever get an appointment :(
Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here!
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This is so useful!!
