Frances Ashton

Pleased to have this through today from @teacherdevtrust I appreciated the time to reflect and review research and take away some learning points from this course #alwayslearning

🚨 NEW BLOG 🚨 ‘Disciplinary talk’ “Disciplinary talk is a recognition that mathematicians, scientists, and geographers, communicate in subtly different ways, and that talk routines can be well matched to curriculum content in those different areas.” alexquigley.co.uk/disciplinary-t…

Everybody’s talking about oracy …: ‘Creating Confident Communicators’ - a thoughtful report on the topic by ⁦@Literacy_Trust⁩: literacytrust.org.uk/policy-and-cam…

Idyllic holiday setting- tenuously nautical current read! #summerbooks

Summer book haul! 📚 😃 Where should I start?

It's that time of year again where I start to see people's school improvement plans for next year. If you are looking looking at metacognition, oracy, turn and talk, literacy, trauma informed practice or bits of individual theory from cognitive science, I'm not saying these things are a waste of time, but there's a need to prioritise. Whatever it is you are spending your summer planning, I'd consider checking the list below first, if all those things are sorted in your school then go for it, but if they aren't I'd suggest they are prioritised. Calm, orderly, predictable classrooms across the school. Calling out does not occur. Teachers are consistently putting students' names at the end of questions. Teachers have "rules of thumb" for which students they ask questions to and when. There are always checks for understanding in-between explanation and practice. Checks for understanding in the majority of subject are delivered using miniwhiteboards. Miniwhiteboards are used with "hover and show" routines. Students are in the room and learning (i.e. actually doing something academically meaningful) extremely quickly at the start of lessons. Departments have long-term memory strategies that map out how teachers give students the retrieval practice they need. As above, once that stuff is in play, go to town. But if it isn't, it's probably where you should focus.

Our report 'Missing Mothers' in collaboration with @mtpt_project is out today. Read full report here - newbritain.org.uk/missing-mothers

Brilliant to see this report published to well deserved media coverage. I was pleased to be asked to contribute a case study from @DidcotGirls to explore how we’ve been building an effective culture to support staff. newbritain.org.uk/_files/ugd/8be… www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co…

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 'Adaptive teaching or reasonable adjustments?' "Happily... some of the reasonable adjustments offered to pupils with SEND that also appear to be adaptive teaching approaches can prove of great value, but at a low cost..." alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-teach…

roger federer on letting go and overcoming hard moments

First new post in quite while >> Why bother with 'turn & talk'? learningspy.co.uk/featured/why-b…

Final CPD booklet of this Academic Year ✨ Booklet 6: Retrieval Focusing on research, reading & resources relating to: - Quizzing - Do Now - Prompts and Cues As always, a huge thanks to those who's work has inspired this and is included/referenced. dropbox.com/scl/fo/u38bd6u…

@MrsSpalding It almost feels on this platform that you are a traitor to say you enjoy your job as a teacher and have a good work life balance! You can feel this way AND acknowledge it can be challenging as well. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

Once more for the people at the back- the nonsense I was referring to was the media! 🤷‍♀️🙄

My next CPD session is applicable to literature and language, across all exam boards 🎯 I'm going to focus on improving student responses at a granular level, looking at each AO - lots of strategies to improve AO1-3 which can be immediately implemented. eventbrite.co.uk/e/913150135637…

Excellent blog by @SENDMattersUK on 'SEND strategies: Live by them, or death by them' "The best teachers I see do a few things well, in relation to the strategies they’ve been asked to implement for pupils with SEND." sendmatters.co.uk/2024/05/13/sen…

The Persistent Blight of ‘Max Three Observations A Year’. teacherhead.com/2024/05/12/the…

A signed copy of the wonderful @GKKLeadership’s book on young leaders. Very proud of all she has achieved 💕

It's been a while since I shared anything so here goes... A series of short 'Do Now' tasks based on exploring multiple interpretations in 'A Christmas Carol'. Instructions are in the PPT... a quick and easy way of exploring different readings of characters and quotations. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! @Team_English1 dropbox.com/scl/fo/btapmbf…

@lollydaffs Hope it went smoothly!! I remember taking V in to do some preparatory photocopying whilst in a carrier. The white noise was quite soothing!

Today’s return to work prep - discovering I need to be on work wifi to sign in to laptop for the first time, so taking my children on an adventure to the school car park!

Have placed this booklet online-20 mini practice Qs, all including a Q5, based on AQA English Language. Essentially there are mini extracts to do lots of independent practice with space to write. Ideal for tutor time/intervention/tutoring. #language-revision-booklet" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laurawebbcpd.com/resources/#lan… @Team_English1

@FunkyPedagogy @LiteracyCommUK @mrsdurieteacher Could be a useful community to be part of when you’re back?