English Teacher for 15 years: Click the link for 200 revision videos on YouTube & my guide to the key quotations in Macbeth:
Redhill, England
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There are lots of excellent GCSE English YouTubers: @MrBruffEnglish @DystopiaJunkie @staceyreay @happyteacherhub but I am proud of my Macbeth playlist and Power & Conflict videos. It's a good feeling to reach this milestone:
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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society is 9 years old today! Thanks everso to members, followers, supporters and letter writers everywhere for helping to inspire all those years of encouraging the world to keep writing letters. What would be a good way to celebrate? 🥳✉️🍰🎉
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The line-up for this year's @Literacy_Trust 'Reconstructing Reading' conference is simply world-class, with every speaker bringing a wealth of experience and expertise from their own particular field.
More information here: literacytrust.org.uk/trainin…
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A lesson can look brilliant.
Pupils engaged. Hands up. Tasks completed.
But can they remember it six weeks later? Can they apply it independently?
Engagement is visible. Learning is harder to see.
My latest article:
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#TeachingAndLearning #EduTwitter
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Build pupils' schema to help them to make connections with new vocabulary, by using these 4 ideas.
We think with words, read them, articulate our ideas in speech and writing. Words are who we are.
Find out more about our professional learning impact.wales
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Amidst all the discussions about oracy, vocational education, national assessment policy, AI and more, the Carousel team produced a course about How To Give Instructions.
Helping real teachers in real classrooms in real schools.
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Spent the first sunday of half term completing the “better instructions” course on carousel. Often low level disruption sparks from teacher instructions, not students deliberately misbehaving, some great takeaways, great course! @adamboxer1 @BenRiceTeach
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Book lovers, what’s a book you wish you could read again for the first time, knowing absolutely nothing about it?
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The Marking and Feedback Bundle for English Teachers: secondaryenglish.co.uk/produ… #marking #workload #burnout #teachers
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4 Books that will make you a better writer:
- "On Writing' by Stephen King
- "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser
- "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield
- "Ernest Heming on Writing" by Ernest Hemingway
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✳️ Revising Frankenstein? ✳️
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The Cognitive Load Theory ⚗️DistillED Series so far, with each idea broken down into the What, Why and How for busy teachers. Every edition ends with a 5-step process for putting it into practice. This FREE one-page guide captures the lot.
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👀 3. The Split-Attention Effect
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✂️ 4. The Redundancy Effect (out next week)
⏳ 5. Transient Information (coming soon)
🔄 6. The Expertise Reversal Effect (coming soon)
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SUNDAY MORNING
Whatever time it is in your time zone, it's PODCAST TIME
NEW EPISODE
This week we are joined by Alistair from @edaptuk to ask:
What do we do about AI complaints?
What gets a teacher banned?
What's going on with the pay rise?
Tune in and share!
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