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Trying a little experiment to support #teaching the importance of #soil and vegetation in reducing the risk of #flooding it worked... #geographyteacher #geography #geographyathome #hometasking20

@adamboxer1 Or is it a parenting issue?

If every teacher in the country was 10% better at teaching would there be more or fewer students identified with SEND? Please RT!

@Matt_Pinner Incredible

@ICT_MrP Just need more staff and smaller classes

I’ve said before that if teachers had a full day of PPA at home every week, retention would look very different. The conversation about a four-day week keeps popping up, and the Sky News article makes one thing clear: something has to change. Because you can’t keep losing

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Climate Counts: Every number tells a story🌡️🌎 Lots of potential in this little #climatecounts pocketbook from @UNDP feature.undp.org/climate-counts…

Worrying at a time when these subjects should be thriving… I wonder why 🧐… @BBCNews bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… @leicesterucu @LeicesterUnion @DfE_Employers @GOVUK #geography #geology #naturalhistory #university #onlinelearning #AI

you only have to go into some schools to realise why attendance is low. I suggest visits to ‘real life’ schools/shadow teachers for a term so you get a REAL idea of the issues. @educationgovuk - funding, staffing & resources are diabolical, students neglected because of this 😡

@MesmeEsme @tes @csjthinktank Brilliant. Spot on.

@tes @csjthinktank Some kids don’t skip school because of their parents. They hate it because it’s restrictive, joyless and kills their vibe. Attendance training won’t fix that. If adults hated their workplace, they’d leave. Yet we expect kids to stay and suffer.

Parents whose children are taking unauthorised absences could be required to participate in attendance awareness training, similar to courses given to speeding motorists, according to a @csjthinktank report tes.com/magazine/news/…

@SchoolsWeek LOL make them nicer and ensure all kids are supported and more kids would attend - it’s not rocket science - 😡

📉 Schools should take 'proactive' action to help cut the number of children missing education and locate those at most risk, the government has said buff.ly/0JS1HcW

@BGatesIsaPyscho Change it to a creative craft zone for kids/nursery - it would be filled! People in the past had done hard physical shifts and wanted to ‘sit with a pint’ most people now sit all day-Make it instergrammable and people will flock there! crazy golf, table tennis, escape rooms etc.

🚨🇬🇧 “It’s 6 O’Clock on a Saturday Night & we have no Customers - Life is changing” This is so sad. Old Britain is never coming back.

@bookofsweg @BGatesIsaPyscho Online

@BGatesIsaPyscho Yes - very sad. Where has the economic activity gone, that kept places going. youtu.be/PttsD3D5Ri0

@tes @ellencph Because students don’t want to goto school because their needs are not being met because of underfunding. It’s not rocket science

Why have GCSE and A-level entries fallen if the student population has increased? @ellencph analyses the Ofqual entry data for this exam season tes.com/magazine/analy…

@HerewoodeAcad yr10 Geographers don’t forget to be in for 8:15 tomorrow for your fieldtrip to Hunstanton! Check the forecast here bbc.co.uk/weather/2646403 make sure you have water, snacks and any medication you need. 👟🥾👒🧢🎒🍏🍌🥪🍫🚌🌏☀️

@SchoolsWeek Scrap it and start fresh.

Union leaders have blasted a 'reckless' move by Ofsted to delay revealing its report card plan until September – leaving schools facing a 'nonsensical' timeline for the roll-out of new inspections buff.ly/hh3qJky

@tombennett71 We need more resources!!!

A reminder that teachers in the state sector teach *everyone*, from the best to the worst. And we cannot expect them to manage students as chaotic as this with kind words and de-escalation alone. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Mrs_Geography Fantastic x

YR9 smashed their coastal skills lesson today SIDE NOTE: This activity was sourced from a fellow geographer (that I can’t seem to recall right now), but THANK YOU FOR SHARING 👊🏻 #geographyteacher

@dylanwiliam more staff are needed, smaller class sizes and teachers given time for CPD / Curriculum planning and marking which isn’t before/after school/at the weekends. It’s not rocket science. I’d Challenge any1 2spend a week as a class teacher in a state school right now. It’s tough.

On the grounds that it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission, I've decided to make available online my foreword to Guy Claxton's "The future of teaching—and the myths that hold it back" (Routledge 2021). It's here: bit.ly/ClaxtonForeword