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I was opening some cards from my Y13s today and several thanked me specifically for introducing @Carousel_Learn this year. One example: “Carousel quizzes are genuinely genius…it has made the biggest improvement in my long term memory.” Thank you so much for your platform!

@Wtkn81 @adamboxer1 That’s great, thank you. I definitely do that when it’s feasible :)

@NothingToAddNow @adamboxer1 “Right this is the question “what is a sacrament?” Wait 30 secs. “Archie”. “Dunno”. Can I give you an either or? “Is visible sign of God” or “invisible sign of God”? “Errr visible?” Yes that’s correct, what is the sign of God in baptism?

New Post! In many classrooms, lots of students aren’t listening, which means they aren’t learning. In this post we outline a few common mistakes and simple techniques for building classrooms where ALL students expected to participate. Please share if you can, link in reply 🙏

@Wtkn81 @adamboxer1 Do you mind giving an example of what you mean? Do you mean turning the q into multiple choice?

@NothingToAddNow @adamboxer1 Also try “could I give you and either or?” This then allows the student to then pay attention and also feel success

@Wtkn81 @adamboxer1 For 1x in a lesson, I’m happy to use this, and do (or similar). But I’m struggling w/repeat offenders, in 1 lesson or across them, and it wastes so much time that it also either causes others’ attention to drop or for them to get frustrated and be rude/mean. I see classes 1x /wk.

@NothingToAddNow @adamboxer1 I would not use a behaviour point. I would introduce new questioning strategies, like echo. Teacher ask student question, student answers. The. Teacher say what did Bob just say? Student says “no problem, Bob say what you said a bit louder. Then ask again, student can answer

@adamboxer1 I’d really appreciate that! I’ve been trying to follow up, ‘Dunno,’ with, ‘What was the question?’ Followed by a reminder that if they’re not listening they’re not learning, and then trying to loop. If it happens 2x in a lesson I’ve done warnings but further sanctions feel weird.

@NothingToAddNow hey it's a good question. i don't think it's responsible for me to answer in a tweet reply, because it's complicated and liable to misinterpretation. i think i need to blog on it

@adamboxer1 Not sure it is the most recent but one that springs to mind was a blog shared by Craig Barton about delayed answer MCQs being more effective, so, where relevant, I have implemented that basically ever since. tipsforteachers.substack.com/p/50-when-usin… FLMOP was before this one for me, I think.

Interesting question: what was the last blog/article/post/tweet you read or event you attended that actually made a concrete difference to something that you do? Like, yesterday I did x, and today I do y. What was the thing you read? What is the thing you did differently?

@adamboxer1 That’s why I’m in that 1% 😭 I couldn’t honestly say I do it consistently enough to say I do it consistently. Doesn’t mean I don’t consistently *intend* to do these things.

Maybe this is too spicy a take for a Friday morning, but this data is completely unreflective of what I believe is classroom reality. In the dozens of schools I have visited, there are only TWO where "ask a question, pause, then nominate a respondent" was done consistently. In the dozens of schools I have visited, there is only ONE where teachers insisted on full sentence answers. The idea that 78% of teachers are "checking the understanding of all students during the lesson" beggars belief. Three options: A. My experience is wrong B. Teachers are liars C. Teachers, like all humans, are delusional about their own expertise Shout out to @TeacherTapp as always!

@ScottRagan @adamboxer1 achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2024/02/06/cal…

@adamboxer1 Apologies if I'm behind the ball but why do you believe that calling out and/or calling on raised hands a problem? What methods do you believe are better/superior options?

I just wrote this for a project I am working on and it basically sums up the last 4 years of my life working in school improvement

What’s a cheesemonger’s favourite Christmas song? Rocking Around the Christmas Brie #ChristmasClassics

@adamboxer1 I have seen a few times, teachers of a shared class (A level or GCSE sci) with one decidedly less dedicated, and the class performs better in their side of the course because they panic and revise more for it. Obviously not this scenario but it makes me wary of different pay.

Imagine two teachers, A and B. They teach in the same school and the same department. They both have 15 years of experience and teach a similar mix of students. Every year, A's students' grades are much higher than B's. Should Teacher A be paid more than Teacher B? Please RT!

@the_UrbanWolf @adamboxer1 I had exactly that happen as an NQT: A student thought she would explode at a peer and ran out of my lesson instead. I didn’t deal with it correctly at the time, but I was lucky - she returned and apologised to me and explained why she did it. So the right is reciprocated!

@adamboxer1 The right and ability for a student to remove themselves from a bad class is one of the most sacred and fundamental rights that a student has. Without it, the whole system crumbles. Uno reverse. School doesn't work well when you force kids to be there against their will.

The right and ability to remove a student is one of the most sacred and fundamental rights that a teacher has. Without it, the whole system crumbles.

@adamboxer1 There’s also, sadly, getting worse because others’ decisions/diktats mean your time is eaten by tasks that don’t directly impact student outcomes and you are too drained/frustrated so you don’t teach as well as you want to… Felt it happen last year. Trying to fight it this year!

In case you missed it: half term reading! Can teachers get worse at teaching, and how does it happen? Please share if you enjoyed it 🙏🙏

@sainsburys I just opened some flour I bought from you recently and it had several bugs in it.

@adamboxer1 I think it’s also school culture. I only gave a gift to a great teacher b/c he was leaving. He was so good a girl who hadn’t done her hw begrudgingly asked once, ‘Why does he have to be such a good teacher?!’ Where I teach, it’s more of a thing, but it varies across year groups.

Right at the end of this graph are the super teachers who don't get thank you cards, don't get christmas or end of year gifts, don't get awards and don't speak at fancy conferences. But they do get results, year after year, and the kids know exactly how good they are.

@adamboxer1 Trick question! You were doing hinterland on conservationists and ecologists tracking zebras in a non-invasive way. This is what you did actually say..!

nobody getting any points yet

@Hookean1 I use ‘Jimmy’ rather than my brother, but I use it every year to teach my classes the formula!

Chemisty Poem: My brother was a chemist He isn't anymore What he thought was H₂O Was H₂SO₄

@sainsburys I bought whole milk yesterday and now it curdled in coffee. Also smells off. This isn’t the first time we’ve had issues with your whole milk. The last few times, it has seemed to turn to curds and whey in the bottle. Photo: today’s milk + hot water to show curdling

@stevenmwright @MarianneDornan @norchcity I agree, it's far from *the* most pressing matter facing education and future generations, but I think fixing students' lack of equipment in many cases would begin by teaching them not to destroy their own in the first place. This would likely have other positive consequences.

@NothingToAddNow @MarianneDornan @norchcity I'm not condoning waste and disrespect, but the pen debate needs perspective.

@stevenmwright @MarianneDornan @norchcity It's not just the expense. The waste is unacceptable. I know it's relatively insignificant, but it's indicative of a careless attitude to the environment - esp as they were discarded. It's entitlement to break and discard anyone's posessions. Who cleans up & who replaces them?

@MarianneDornan @norchcity MAT top slice