Ellis Griffiths

Happy feast day 🎉 form groups of Carlo Acutis 🙏 "What does it matter if you can win a thousand battles if you cannot win against your own corrupt passions? It doesn't matter. The real battle is with ourselves" 💪

Did not see this coming! There's an Ofqual consultation on potentially continuing to give GCSE equation sheets for the next three years. You can give your thoughts on the link below 👇 gov.uk/government/con…

@MissSayers1 @katiewestonsci @MrReganPE

Do you agree with these statements about the science curriculum? IF YES 1. Be like the hundreds of other signatories to our submission to the Curriculum Review 2. Please please share achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2024/09/30/cal…

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@edmunds_dr @STEMyBanda It’s ok don’t worry. Thank you as ever for your brilliant resources.

@GriffithsEllis @STEMyBanda Sorry!! This is a flaw in me releasing things as and when I write them...

I really, *really* wish that I could share the "practical science" chapter. I think it's good and exactly the type of thing you want to start year 7 with. *But*, I've shared >90% of this freely. I'm reluctantly holding this chapter back so it's only available in a physical copy.

@edmunds_dr @STEMyBanda Ah damn. I bought the 3 books and now the merged book in order to get the practical section haha.

@STEMyBanda I’ll DM you Thandi

The more schools I see the more I become convinced that implementing detentions should almost always be a whole school system, rather than something left up to individual classroom teachers to issue, communicate and hold, especially where it comes to follow up for non-attendance. It just guarantees a huge variation in consistency. Because it relies on the teacher having the confidence, organisation, willpower and workload to implement it, and those are factors that wax and wane depending on the circumstances. Arguments that this degrades the teacher’s ‘agency’ never seem to describe what, precisely, the benefits of this agency actually are.

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The first job of any incoming head of department is to do...nothing. Take your time. Figure things out. Don't rock the boat until you've identified the thing that really needs changing. That applies to anything: booklets, T&L, starters, homework platform, admin...whatever.

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@MissLowesSci Higher or foundation?

Marking paper 2 chemistry this year and having an absolute nightmare on some questions, anyone else in the same position?

@Yerriso @SimonThorneloe

The new girl Tiffany reminds me of this meme #loveIsland

@AdelleRowland @MrARobbins Yes exactly that. Teachers being unfairly judged during book looks that little is happening in the lesson. Reams of beautiful notes is a poor proxy for learning, but sometimes leadership’s eyes would light up

@MrARobbins I’ve thought about this a lot when I look at a selection of teachers books against my own. A lot of my work is done on MWB/questioning and then the independent work goes into books. Then when you step back and look, it seems from the outside that nothing happened in the lesson.

NEW BLOG I've been thinking about students copying stuff down and how to avoid it. Why do we make students copy things down? How can we avoid it without expanding workload? How can we support others to reduce copying? 👇 adam-robbins.com/2024/05/10/can…

@STEMyBanda Haha same happened with me too! Guess we should collaborate what we think about chem and phys

The reality of growing teacher shortages: we have 3 staff off long term - no agency supply available -HoD and second setting 58 cover lessons a week - two rounds of gcse exams: 4 staff mark double loads - some classes now taught in groups of 60 by dept leads ensure live teaching

@RogersHistory At the start - Focus on resources and what students are producing. Now it’s about what I want them to know, how I’ll check for understanding, how I’ll check they have the pre requisite knowledge, how ill organise the information to be disseminated in the most effective way

When planning a lesson, what is the process you go through? What is the format you use? and has it changed since you started teaching?

@RogersHistory Teaching in a Liverpool boys school today was hard. Couldn’t even look at some kids.

Everton - this is one of the best days of my life. I’m serious 😂 buzzing doesn’t come close! #COYB