Mrs. Monaghan

You need to create an environment where poor behaviour is less likely to happen. 1. Consistency from staff: have systems that everyone must follow. Ie slanting, counting out books. 2. Consistent classrooms: visualisers for all, desks in rows, not much on walls. 3.Narration of absolutely everything so they fully understand the WHY. 4. Merits/demerits used liberally by everyone constantly. Make them mean something. 5. Regular meetings with parents of challenging pupils. 6. Perfect uniform for everyone. 7. Believe in one best way of teaching and align staff. There is lots more but start there. That’s how you improve behaviour across the school. Broken Windows Theory. It works!

📈 Schools with large numbers of poorer pupils say they have boosted progress scores by installing new leadership, tighter behaviour rules and reaching beyond the school gates schoolsweek.co.uk/how-schools-wi…

1️⃣ Does it make pupils think? Swap "Have you finished?" with "Tell me what you've learnt." 2️⃣ Does it lead to mastery over time? 3️⃣ Are the materials both beautiful and useful, reflecting quality & depth? 🔗 Check it out & dive deeper: buff.ly/3tUddlH /2

📌Bridging the Gap between Intent and Delivery in Education📚 A ton of effort has been poured into curriculum design, but do we deliver what we promise? An ambitious curriculum deserves an equally ambitious delivery.🎯 🔍3 Principles to Ponder: /1

Teaching some vs teaching all. This is where the action for improvement lies. teacherhead.com/2023/05/07/tea…

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TPS6: How do I engage passive learners? teacherhead.com/2023/01/17/tps…

Free downloadable poster summaries of how to set/ reset behaviour at the start of the year. Please RT to anyone who might this useful tombennetttraining.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

Retrieval and review tasks for Macbeth douglaswise.co.uk/retrieval-revi… ➡️ Quotation retrieval ➡️ Fill in the gaps ➡️ Identify the character ➡️ Explain a reference ➡️ Explain in fifty words ➡️ Explain the connotations ➡️ Explain the context ➡️ Summarise what happens ➡️ Define the word

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In our hotel there’s a young boy’s football team staying in the same corridor. Only teachers know why this is here 😂

Evidence reviews are intensive but rewarding to do. The first one I have done for a while 🙂: Collaborative / cooperative learning. surfingthecurve.com/post/review-of… The short answer is that anybody considering using it should be very cautious (discussed in the review).

When daily quiz regimes become lethal mutations of retrieval practice. teacherhead.com/2022/06/18/whe… > most-read June last year

100 times this.

Every teacher needs to know how to teach students the literacy of their discipline. Read more in our blog ‘Teaching reading: it’s not as ‘niche’ as you think’ wp.me/p4hKgx-Yk (3 min read). #EduTwitter

Interesting report by @EDSKthinktank on the value of written exams in assessment. Big issue in HE: we’ve long been over-reliant on essays, AI now making that untenable. We need a new assessment mix, and imo exams will be an important part of that.

An exciting job leading a fabulous department! tes.com/jobs/vacancy/s…

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While reading comprehension strategy instruction may be of limited value, specifically teaching students how to make inferences seems to improve general comprehension (d=0.58), inferential comprehension (d=0.68) and literal comprehension (d=0.28): bit.ly/3JulK2Z ($)