Dean Barber (He/Him)

@DainesPaula 🤣🤣🤣

@MrDBarb Ha ha…me too…watch out for my hair flicks!!

Last day of teaching for this trimester today and this is how I’ll be walking around campus. #Wicked 🧙‍♀️

So excited to head to Shiz University!!

🚨🚨 Are we expecting too much from retrieval practice? I combine data from my research with @englishspecial and Ofsted's science subject report to explore this.

I am 100% in floods of tears. From the personalised CBeebies bedtime story to this performance. What incredibly brave little girls. The side of teaching you don’t get taught…

Teaching comes with its highs & lows, and some of the most challenging times come when supporting a child & their family through the unimaginable. I taught lovely Aanya during her mum’s diagnosis & treatment. I am SO excited to see her on @BBCCiN tonight! bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c8…

The gifts kept coming today, this time from our lovely Level 4 students. How lucky we are to work with such thoughtful students!

@KayAaronricks Thank you!

Truly lucky to teach such lovely undergraduate students. I got to spend my birthday today with our Level 6s who bought me a card and chocolates (which were shared before lunch…).

A very big congratulations to two of our Primary Education Studies students, Thomas and Poppy, who got married last week! 💒💍 @AngliaRuskin @ARU_AHESS

Today a Year 6 child asked if I’d heard the new KSI song and I was quietly glad they thought I was cool enough to even know who KSI is.

Here are some of the end products!

Today our L4 students began learning about the foundations for writing. They engaged in some ‘dough disco’ before using the play-doh to consider how it can be used to develop fine motor skills. @ARU_AHESS @AngliaRuskin #PrimaryEducationStudies #PES

I’ve had an excellent day with our Level 4 Primary Education Studies students at Cambridge Central Library discussing the importance of libraries and exploring their children’s literature.

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Met Lulu at the European premiere of ‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ at the American Express gala at @BFI London Film Festival and honestly, it may have been the gayest night of my year. Not mad about it! Truly great film! @eltonofficial @DisneyPlus

10 months since completing the PGCert in Teaching and Learning, today was the first face-to-face day on the PGCert in Lead Mentoring for ITT. A very insightful and collaborative start to the course! @AngliaRuskin @ARU_AHESS

Interested in Primary Education? We are on our Cambridge campus all day. Come and see us in LAB210. @AngliaRuskin @ARU_AHESS @ARUEducation @Nat_Combes

Me: Great! We have five minutes to do some self-assessment before assembly. Year 6 child: THERE’S A HUGE SPIDER ABOVE OUR TABLE Year 6 class:

A colleague showed me teacher TikTok today and OH MY GOD 🤯🤯 Literally millions of likes for teachers videoing themselves *in lessons* Millions of likes for classroom practice that are actively bad for student learning 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯