Patrick

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Patrick

Patrick

@Pb6633

England, United Kingdom Katılım Mayıs 2017
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Patrick
Patrick@Pb6633·
@edmunds_dr No not at all, I work in a similar school. Sorry if it came across that way. I just meant that these sort of schools should have the resources to engage more in the nature of the curriculum but none seem too, at least not in an open or collaborative way.
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
@Pb6633 Is this a dig at me for working in a big London independent school? Rereading it again, I'm not sure
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
Out of 20 people on the curriculum committee, it seems like only 2 are practising teachers in schools. This is disappointing - teachers are the absolute experts here and their voices should be more strongly heard.
Institute of Physics@PhysicsNews

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Patrick
Patrick@Pb6633·
@MBDscience Sadly very little of the PGCE is about “how to teach” - what a good lesson looks like, how to deliver effective explanations, sensible behaviour management strategies etc. This stuff all falls to mentors where the quality of provision can vary wildly by school/individual.
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Claudia Lewis@MBDscience·
I'm mentoring an ECT1 and a PGCE student this year, and I'm genuinely shocked that no one taught them even the basics of "don't put loads of text on a PowerPoint and then talk over it". That's Presenting Information 101, surely.
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Graham Cumming
Graham Cumming@MathsNot·
I see that the annual county competition for the highest proportion of 18 year olds achieving A* in Maths has once again been won by Surrey, but for Further Maths once again by the non-existent county of Rutland analytics.ofqual.gov.uk/apps/Alevel/Co…
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Patrick
Patrick@Pb6633·
@bennewmark @jon_hutchinson_ I’m in my mid twenties and the biggest thing my friends can’t understand is having to be “in the office” 5 days a week for 7:30am. Most graduate jobs now have a very attractive work from home culture that teaching can’t offer. This is the big change post Covid.
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Ben Newmark
Ben Newmark@bennewmark·
@jon_hutchinson_ I read a lot of stuff on this and it seems to boil down to: 1. Teaching is hard and stressful. It's long hours. 2. The money isn't great. 3. There's little flexibility. The big recent change is flexibility which is giving lots of people (predominantly women) other options.
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Jon Hutchinson
Jon Hutchinson@jon_hutchinson_·
This is a huge problem. It’s tempting to look at the situation & blame the thing that you never liked. But in reality it’s a complex issue with a load of different factors influencing people’s decisions. One Thing isn’t going to solve this because One Thing didn’t cause it.
Tes magazine@tes

The number of teacher trainees estimated to be joining the workforce from the 2022-23 cohort is down by more than 5,000, latest @educationgovuk data shows tes.com/magazine/news/…

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Patrick@Pb6633·
@edmunds_dr Very happy to admit I’ve always struggled to explain this demo! 🙈
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@adamboxer1 What would you change specifically? I agree there is too much content but also worry that the current course doesn’t set students up for A-Level at all even if you do Triple Award (for Physics in my case, unsure about Chem/Bio)
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Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam@dylanwiliam·
@SwailesRuth PISA results show—controlling for social class and compositional effects—achievement in UK state and private schools was the same, suggesting that the quality of teaching in private schools is such that they need classes of 23 to achieve what state schools do with classes of 30
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Ruth Swailes
Ruth Swailes@SwailesRuth·
Finding it difficult to sympathise with 7% of the population who might have to pay vat to access tiny class sizes and excellent facilities when the other 93% are being taught in underfunded schools that may be literally crumbling around them and 30% of them live in poverty.
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Patrick
Patrick@Pb6633·
@edmunds_dr I don’t think there is anything more satisfying than a simple, useful diagram constructed in real time infront of students. Maybe I’m wrong but it feels so much more powerful than a PowerPoint slide.
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
Also to date, I think this is still my best example of dual coding. Back when I taught this for the first time, I spent ages planning how to teach it
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
It’s that time of year when I teach one of my favourite lessons. Students are always like “Dr. Edmunds is just making this up now, yeah?”
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Patrick
Patrick@Pb6633·
@Newmanphysics The AQA A-Level Spec is infuriatingly bad. The scope of each spec point and depth of knowledge required is so poorly/not at all defined. Teachers shouldn’t have to look through past paper questions to work out what is fair game for the exams.
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David Cotton
David Cotton@Newmanphysics·
A level physics teachers. The AQA specifications says; Description of the qualitative effect of temperature on the resistance of metal conductors and thermistors. I have only ever spoken of the relationship between Temp and resistance. Do you explain how they work? #chatphysics
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@DJGteaching I literally shuddered before I read the original tweet🙈
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David Gash FCCT
David Gash FCCT@DJGteaching·
Formula triangles are cool.
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@MBDscience I can imagine a scenario where a ECT feels demoralised and possibly patronised by having to teach rigidly from centrally planned PPs or booklets, particularly if they aren’t very good! If you aren’t enjoying the classroom teaching maybe leaving the profession feels logical.
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Claudia Lewis
Claudia Lewis@MBDscience·
Imagine someone who finished their ECT2 in July coming to you and saying "I'm sorry, I find T&L too restrictive and patronising, and I find it so restrictive and patronising that I'm going to leave the entire profession". Really?
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@Sheena2907 @mrbrownsays The learning point is that the force arrows have the same length, so forces equal magnitude and so block is in equilibrium. If one arrow started at the table going up & the other at the CoM going down, the arrows would overlap and it wouldn’t be clear they have the same length.
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Sheena@Sheena2907·
@mrbrownsays I actually think it does though. The reaction force is from the table onto the box. Putting the arrow above the box might cause misconceptions about what is happening. Happy to sit on my own in pedant corner though 😂
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Sheena@Sheena2907·
I'm using Edexcel books for the first time and keep getting mad at the force diagrams. I always do R coming up from the table and mg acting from the middle of the block. Am I just being petty?
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Patrick
Patrick@Pb6633·
@edmunds_dr a) No idea. b) The AQA A-Level spec - not necessarily what is on it but how the document is written - is farcical.
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
Hi Twitter, AQA A level physics spec question. What on Earth does the below mean? Me & my team have no idea: "Appreciation of momentum conservation issues in the context of ethical transport design." (Spec point 3.4.1.6 Momentum in the mechanics topic)
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@edmunds_dr I also think they’ll be less young teachers entering the profession. Being at work every day, and starting early each morning, is a huge turn off when you can WFH + work flexibly in most other careers.
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
Hypothetically let’s say the teaching recruitment & retention crisis continues to worsen. What does teaching then look like in a decade?
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@FollowOurSystem @tejfbanalytics Wrong. 28 teams passed on him. This includes the Ravens who selected Hayden Hurst at 25. Bills (JA @ 7, Tremaine Edmunds @ 16) Browns (Baker @ 1, Denzel Ward @ 4) Patriots (Isiah Wynn @ 23, Sony Michel @ 31) All passed on him twice. Texans KC Rams Philly Didn’t have 1RPs
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Tej Seth
Tej Seth@tejfbanalytics·
the entire league having the chance to get lamar jackson for two 1st round picks and a new contract and no one acting on it will never make sense
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@edmunds_dr Archimedes principle not being on the A-Level specification is a tragedy
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Peter Edmunds 🦄@edmunds_dr·
My department was interested in what older physics exam papers were like - check out this O level physics paper from 1959. Very different!
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@musingsofadr @rdkrdk @TeacherTapp Aristotle got the 2nd law of motion incorrect. Newton had to study mathematics at Cambridge and invent calculus before he could formulate it…now I can teach it to a Year 8 class!
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Patrick@Pb6633·
@austingayle_ Austin I read this in your voice. We need you back on pods moaning about stuff.
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Ari Meirov
Ari Meirov@MySportsUpdate·
A #Colts players is being investigated for gambling on games and there's evidence the player placed hundreds of wagers, including bets involving the Colts, per @MattRybaltowski of @sports_handle. The player is not considered a "star" but the average fan has likely heard of him.
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