Karla Bennett

@japleen_kaur1 6 x 50 mins per course

Just wondering how many hours of A level teaching time you get in you schools?  Also,  can anyone share any particularly good practice in what you set students  for  independent work (above just textbook questions etc). Thank you. Please RT...

@london_bellex @RogersHistory This is true. Feedback can happen without teachers marking. Feedback is from being informed of how students are doing, this doesn’t have to involve marking. I work in a school with no marking (apart from mocks) and we give students feedback every week on their work during lesson.

@RogersHistory Marking has limited evidence? That’s incorrect. Marking precedes feedback and feedback is where students gain assessment knowledge allowing them to perform well in exams.

🗑️ 10 things schools can bin off (IMO) because every little helps: Asking teachers to log behaviour incidents - get someone to come round to classrooms with a laptop and do the recording of incidents dictation style rather than asking a teacher to log into software and click about 50 buttons to log something, then blame them for not ‘why wasn’t it logged?’ - if a 5 period day, there is literally no time to log. Excessive morning briefings - email, zoom, record, whatever. But that 5 minutes also involves a 5-10 minute walk and then potentially afterwards a rush to a registration room and a more stressy start to the day. Also if morning messages are just a quick fire stress bucket, then this is just a horrible start to any day. Marking - just let teachers do what they want, if that means no marking, fine. Why? Limited evidence it makes much difference to outcomes. Compulsory twilights on CPD - let each teacher take ownership of their own CPD to do as and when they want to do it. Teachers will put the time in, let them dictate when that is. Flexible working rules from 2026 may spell the end for compulsory events of this sort. Mad Behaviour systems - don’t make teachers go through insanely arduous warning systems (that’s your 4th warning/C4/L4 etc) and then same children end up back in same room lesson after lesson. They get to 3rd warning, avoid getting sent out, restart again next lesson. Adds workload and stress. Phone calls home - demanding teachers call home and asking why they haven’t when behaviour is poor. Thee last thing a teacher has time or willpower to do after a full day is make a series of calls. By all means if teachers want to, fine, but if not - no. Static PPA - go flex - let teachers take PPA wherever they want. Oh, and if someone had a funeral, let them go to it. Recognising solid work - no bells and whistles, just consistently in and doing it in the classroom, not much outside? Great - that’s the core job. Please praise big style in an authentic way. Undertand what teachers are doing that goes unnoticed - the little convos that make a difference to a student but don’t tick any performative boxes. Little convos add up to lots of time - don’t punish teachers for doing this by then highlighting when they are behind on the easily visible stuff. Parents evenings and reports - just make them as incredibly easy as they can possibly be. Cut corners. Chill the hell out. There’s more than this but I may need to do a part two! 2️⃣

@adeleparks Yes aged 38

@jammiedodgers where’s the jam?! #disappointed #nojam #justadodger

@Matt_Pinner +30 then -1

How do you calculate 56+29 in your head without a calculator? Indulge me please, I am trying to check something

I will be collecting 2022/2024 GCSE - A level grade conversions again this year to update my pinned tweet. Pls DM/email me your results, preferably in Excel, If you had students who dropped out it would be great to have their GCSE result too. Pls retweet so I get as many as poss

@KatieEHolmes_ Is this available to download somewhere? It looks amazing!

Metacognition tutor time curriculum 🧠 This week Y7,8,9&10 will start a tutor time programme based on memory, metacognition and revision strategies. 1/7

@missradders This is awful. Strong is beautiful is an ok message but still has the underlining idea that women have to be beautiful to be valued. That the whole reason they might get into sport is to look good. I don’t get who thought this was a good advertising campaign!

This is bad. Sooooooooo bad.

@mathschampion43 @pearson Are you using the correct website? I just contacted Pearson and I was using the incorrect one 🙈

@mathschampion43 @pearson Mine just says my login and password don’t match

@mathschampion43 @pearson I’m missing out on a family day out to get this done and I will be fuming if I can’t get on soon

@mathschampion43 @pearson I’m literally going insane

@vicky_maths So frustrating. My husband and kids have gone out for the day so I can get it done.

Any Edexcel exam markers finding epen running REALLY SLOWLY this morning? It’s driving me mad!

@SNewport01 @pearson My exact thoughts!

@pearson what's up with epen? Wanted to get some marking done today and yesterday, using an incognito window and tried 3 different browsers and it won't load/keeps crashing. I have deadlines looming, will these be extended in light of the website not consistently working?

@Just_Maths Any chance there’s a higher one too?

Self checking breakfast workout (Edexcel Foundation) for Monday morning ... topics that havent appeared to date. dropbox.com/scl/fi/nbnuui7… #Mathschat

@FixingEducation Once a girl put her hand up in my maths class and asked me “Miss can you get pregnant by being f***ed in the arse?” As an NQT it was quite an eye opener!

Teachers, what's the worst thing you have heard a student say to a teacher? #TeacherLife I’ll start… I once heard a student tell a teacher ‘this is why your husband left you!’ 😬😔

@TheMathsBazaar @vicky_maths @_MissieBee I think the rules should try to be more consistent. What are they testing in this question, surely it’s the understanding of the question not that they can write the answer in the correct way.

One of the Qs from last wk’s paper. Deliberately including unnecessary info. Some will argue that it’s sorting those who truly understand from those who don’t, but where do we draw the line? This just feels like it’s trying to catch children out. Doesn’t sit well with me. 1/3

@WhistleblowingT Wow, the point of the post seems to be completely overlooked here. Be kind. To all. No matter what their pay grade. We all have our stresses and loads.

@wright_maths Dr frost, pay as much or as little as you need to.

We have a MyMaths subscription due for renewal. Recommendations for other online platforms we could use for homework (Sparx Maths not within budget).

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