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Some background on my views, perhaps. I started in language teaching, where research (and my own experience) strongly supports acquisition. I trained other language teachers in acquisition. This was very successful with great outcomes.

@howie_hua One of my favourite maths tricks is that you can swap percentages, so 95% of 300 is the same as 300% of 95. In this case, 3 x 95 is much easier. 100 x 3 - 15 for 285

It's Mental Math Monday! How would you mentally calculate 95% of $300?

@MrDixonMath Long blocked for disagreeing on something or other.

We have a disagreement on one thing and now I’m blocked….. that’s pretty weak considering I agreed with him on about 90% of things…

@JayWamsted Very similar. Looking at ‘e’ ‘t’ and ‘I’, I’d say a lot of shared characteristics. But this is nothing like a definitive conclusion.

I need expert teacher twitter advice for a classroom disagreement Are these two handwritings the same? Thoughts?

@oldandrewuk God forbid a teacher attempt to activate schema, relate to learners or ground learning in real-world contexts. Recant, foul beast, recant!

I suppose nobody should be judged by what they were saying 16 years ago. However, I think I'd need to see some public recanting before considering the man who wrote this suitabke for any job in education.

@JamesAFurey This might well fall under the banner of sparking a love of reading, but I think there are massive benefits to reading to children both as a model and as a normaliser. It should definitely be part of an ideal approach.

If you want reading scores to go up, kids need: - immersion in language-rich environments to begin internalizing syntactic structures - phonics based reading instruction when they're young - real literature in their hands as early as possible to build vocabulary and knowledge - to continue to read primarily real literature in schools, not fluff - quality writing instruction that is based in the content they are reading What did I miss? (If you say anything about sparking a love of reading, I will mute you.)

@greg_ashman But there are certainly those more attracted to, interested in, fulfilled by certain types of subjects and others by others. This doesn’t have to be a problem as long as we strive for a reasonable minimum academic achievement in the cores like literacy, numeracy, etc.

@greg_ashman If there’s a problem with the idea of more and less ‘academic’ kids, then perhaps the problem is with the word academic. It’s quite an emotionally loaded term, and there is a sense that the opposite must be some synonym of stupid.

Really shocking that the leader of a headteachers’ union thinks there are ‘less academic students.’ Virtually all kids can achieve in the regular school curriculum to age 16 unless they’ve been failed in some way, often by low expectations.

@greg_ashman @stacey_flan This question seems to be loaded. As in, if it’s not genetic, then it’s environmental, and therefore something that can be fixed. But whether that’s your implication or just my inference, it doesn’t have to be seen as a problem. People have different interests and motivations.

@stacey_flan Why do you think that is? Is it something in their genes or something else?

@AccessibleRail @kaiav11 Show us when it’s cooked…

£75 a head, 2 hour wait and this shows up 🤣 Dfkm

@thetallBlonde68 @terrychristian More privileged people finding themselves in an underserved system is never bad news for the system. It is likely to be the very trigger that is needed to invest in proper change, now that it’s actually affecting the ‘important’ people!

@terrychristian So where are those children going to go to school? Bad news for already overwhelmed state schools. Bad news for the students already there. The downward spiral will affect those at the bottom first. Still happy?

Brilliant news. One c**t factory down

@ranmon545 @leecrawfurd @oldandrewuk It’s entirely plausible that it represents an improved awareness of existing need rather than an increase in need.

This is pretty hard to explain as a genuine increase in need.

@NateJoseph19 I always think “reading isn’t a science” is such a colossal own goal!

The biggest challenge of the science of learning movement isn’t convincing people that X pedagogy works or doesn’t. It’s convincing people that there is a science to teaching and that this matters.

@dontbrexitfixit Imagine thinking that there’s probably justification for this act if only you could see the seconds before the recording started!

Would the driver of the white MG SK74 UHL in this video, please hand themselves in to their local police station?

Teaching tip: Several years ago, I've retired the question "Do you have any questions?" and replaced it with "Ask me at least 2 questions" to help normalize questions in the classroom.

@iamchiaravalli @GBGEdu Love these. Gradeless feedback is the hill I will die on, and peer and self reflection are incredibly valuable sources of feedback!

While I would love to provide students   the feedback they crave, what I don’t love is the towering pile of papers, the endless succession of assignments waiting to be assessed. @iamchiaravalli @GBGEdu growbeyondgrades.org/blog/2017/06/0…

@jdurran We want them to learn two things: the facts we want them to believe and the sources we want them to believe.

@jdurran This is a solid point. What brings both of these together? We don’t want children to learn critical thinking, and we don’t want them to learn media literacy. So let’s not teach them!

@clairebubblepop I’m with you on sentiment. I don’t think it’s helpful to your cause to claim that illegal immigrants don’t exist. What does need to be clarified is that an asylum seeker cannot be called illegal if their application has not yet been processed.

Ok one more fucking time. Within international law there’s no such thing as an illegal migrant. You cannot criminalise someone for moving country. Our laws do NOT override international law, you get me? Also less than 5% of migrants come on small boats but then they don’t tell you that. Maybe look at the full picture before judging. We also have over 500k emigrants a year, another thing they don’t tell you. But you know you carry on being gaslit.

Ok someone explain to me what the difference is between ex-pats and migrants? I don’t get how one is considered absolutely fine and the other is not. The hypocrisy is real with this one.

@clairebubblepop When I lived overseas, I was an expat. When those dirty, stinking immigrants want to live in my country… hoooold on…!!!

@Matt_Pinner In this case, 30+55. Typically, add the tens, then add the units. Perhaps via the nearest 10. 56 + 20 = 76 76 + 4 = 80 80 + 5 = 85

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