Chris Waugh

New post: Rebel Education – A Dcoumentary chris.edutronic.net/rebel-educatio…

Again, probably not what most people want to hear. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/its…

Bags and Chris come out of their respective closets for Pride week and we discuss how setting up patterns in the classroom accelerates boys’ learning. chris.edutronic.net/patterns-and-c…

Is it reasonable that I'm feeling saying "Literacy is an English Teacher's Responsibility" is somehow a controversial statement? chris.edutronic.net/the-conference/

Gena and I look at the precursors for the great teching of boys chris.edutronic.net/love/

My cherished friend Bagley and I are both HoDs of English at boys' schools. What better reason to launch a podcast! podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/its…

The 2nd edition of 'How Learning Happens' is finally out! and @P_A_Kirschner and I are very excited to share it. Here's a brief preview of what's new ⬇️ 🧵 ➡️ Firstly, we felt that the missing elements in the first part of the 1st edition all fell within the broader category of memory and specifically how it underpins, foregrounds, and interacts with learning so we added a new section featuring 5 seminal works and why educators should know about them. ➡️There is a new foreward by John Sweller. ➡️ We also added a second closing chapter in which, after discussing the ten deadly sins of education (the original concluding chapter), we discuss the ways in which seminal research can become distorted into dysfunctional implementations of its original form, what Brown and Campione christened “Lethal Mutations”. ➡️ Finally we’ve updated, checked, and rechecked the links and QR‑codes, added some links to new additional materials, and corrected mistakes that we and others found in the original book.

If you share our concern about the 1000s of boys in New Zealand who are not realising their potential - come and join us at our conference. We're bringing together a group of experts - all of whom seek to lift up boys and see them thrive trybooking.com/nz/QXM @BorrowdaleLaura

@jamespeshaw Three cheers for James Shaw. There’s a reason to be optimistic.

@SteveBraunias I’ll put some thought into it!

@Edutronic_Net Gee! Chris - let us campaign to achieve this. What can I do to help?

Jack’s one of my new favourite writers

@engteacherabro2 I think it’s “averse”.

Fab morning. Now time for nap time...it's a real thing here + I am all for it. However, I'm after some info about Microsoft One Note....looks like we might have try to transfer our paper booklets online...not adverse to this but have no experience. Has anyone on here done this?

@TTRadioOfficial I think it’s “fewer”.

NEW 👇 Less than half of primary schools are now using SIMS as their management information system (MIS) - down from 76% in autumn 2018 Has your school moved from SIMS? We’d love to hear from you 💬

@LNS_MissJ I love your antique ads and updates on the Thames.

A Year 7 said he found me on Twitter but that my tweets were boring. Hello Y7 👋 and yes, I am very boring in real life 😄

@MorganGodfery I worked at Mount Aspiring college for a number of years and could not agree more. I was literally hounded out of the town. Those “pride” events are nothing more than the worst kind of perfomative allyship.

@HeadofEnglish @debrakidd Totally agree!

@debrakidd ‘Beef’ on Netflix is fab

@BKmdtbc19 @debrakidd I loved The Newsroom too

@debrakidd @GlynRogers I agree about Bosch!

@jdurran Stockholm syndrome much?

@Miff__ @LNS_MissJ @emma_au_soleil @LitdriveUK Hi Myfanwy - I remember meeting you at a LATE meeting just before I return I NZ. I wrote a little about it here: chris.edutronic.net/the-people/ and it’s the main subject of a documentary that was made: chris.edutronic.net/rebel-educatio…

@Edutronic_Net @LNS_MissJ @emma_au_soleil @LitdriveUK Have you written about it anywhere Chris? I feel like I only crossed over with you quite briefly and heard about it but would love to know more

Do any English Depts allow *students* to choose their set texts, giving them key details (length, complexity, interconnectedness with other texts on the curriculum?), confident that their Dept are strong enough to teach whatever their class voted for? @LitdriveUK

@Miff__ @LNS_MissJ @emma_au_soleil @LitdriveUK We took it to the level of having the students choose their class and teacher. We do this now in my current school too. Choice!

@LNS_MissJ @emma_au_soleil @LitdriveUK @Edutronic_Net Ah I see, I can imagine that level of choice being pretty much a thing of the past. It was a cool concept! Always thought I might try it one day.