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@Headteacherchat Busy tricking. Students can spend 5 minutes writing out the date and learning objectives, when they could be doing something more cognitively demanding

Do you think writing learning objectives in childrens’ books adds real value, or is it just another box-ticking exercise? Curious to hear what others think, waste of time or worthwhile practice?

@adamboxer1 I think they have used adaptive to adjust or fit to any teaching activity. 😂

@adamboxer1 I know this is not your favourite strategy: Adapt early 15c. (implied in adapted) "to fit (something, for some purpose)," from Old French adapter (14c.), from Latin adaptare "adjust, fit to," from ad "to".

I actually think "adaptive teaching" is a worse term than "differentiation" It's certainly no better

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@RE_McGEE @TashP351 😂 maybe passwords should be three random quotes judgenot-why haveyoumademylifebitter-iknewyoubeforeyouwereborn Un hackable and only rememberable to an RE teacher

@TashP351 I can do Bible quotes and be clueless about the password I set up 5 minutes ago!

How do religious people remember Bible quotes with numbers like ‘John 3:16’ etc?? I can’t remember a password, that was chosen by myself, from 17 minutes ago.

@adamboxer1 Good teaching will allow us to better identify need

@adamboxer1 I think there is also some element of concept creep in here and the issue of the double hermeneutics when applying scientific concepts to human behaviour. The fictional student might have just been capture expanding nature of terms like ADHD.

NEW POST On inclusion, pedagogy, and special education needs (SEND). Link in reply, please share if you can!

@adamboxer1 Which aspect of teaching are they 10 percent better at?

If every teacher in the country was 10% better at teaching would there be more or fewer students identified with SEND? Please RT!

@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?

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

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 🙏

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

@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 @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 Out of interest, what route do you go down for holding students to account if they can’t respond to, “What was the question?” Do you follow the behaviour policy in the same way as if they had been speaking out of turn or do you advocate a different approach?

@greg_ashman I volunteered for a wet sponge the teacher. 50p a sponge. Made 50 pound for charity in the first half hour. Terrifying the speed at which the nicest of students threw a wet sponge

In my very first school, there was a ‘pie the teacher’ event. I didn’t volunteer. I never do for these things, no matter the social pressure. When the event took place, students swung their arms and flung the pies into the teachers’ faces so hard that it hurt. One teacher was in tears afterwards.

@teacherhead I agree with looking at posts and trying not to get wound up. Maybe I should try this with SLT decisions such “My personal preference is flight paths” 😳

I’ve read a few things recently that I have initially recoiled from because of an apparent forced certainty in the tone and title. X is wrong; Y is right Y (good thing) is totally different to X (worse thing) X (thing lots of people do) is a waste of time. Y ( thing I like doing) is way better. Most X is bad - except my version which is great. This over confidence around details of practice is off-putting but also has no actual roots in evidence beyond a person’s preferences and their evaluation of what they’ve personally observed. I know I’m probably guilty of sounding like this too. Unfortunately this tone - with its implicit critique of others - actually can overshadow the good ideas themselves. I re-read something just now mentally inserting a liberal dose of qualifying phrases and found it much easier to absorb: ‘my personal preference/interpretation is ..,’ ‘a routine I’ve found that seems to work well is… ‘ ‘As an alternative to X you might find Y works better… ‘ ‘One possible solution to A is to try B….’ This helps me not to get wound up by overconfident assertions and claims to superior practice. The nature of implementing educational research in practice is that multiple techniques can and do deliver on the same core principles. Maybe it’s up to readers to apply a filter of this type rather than expecting writers to constantly add these qualifying phrases - but one way or the other it’s worth pausing to dial down on certainty ..

@adamboxer1 @DavidDidau @smorrisey I meant meaningless random knowledge, not abstract. Knowing cumulus meant pile or clod and refers to the piles of fluffy clouds, is meaningless in terms of precipitation and and cloud formations.

@adamboxer1 @DavidDidau @smorrisey However, the etymology of clouds are helpful, in that the names refer to what they look like. Functions in the way a mnemonic works for abstract knowledge

This little matrix offers quite a lot. Language is knowledge.

@adamboxer1 @DavidDidau @smorrisey I thought that etymology and morphology were literacy strategies rather than helping student gain deep understanding. Eg omni means all and potent means powerful Then a student can see patterns in other complex terms.

@TTRadioOfficial Most students do not not know why they are acting in the way they are. Better to give clear concrete instructions on what good behaviour looks like. Behaviour is biologically secondary and therefore requires explicit instructions and practice.

“What am I not providing right now as a teacher that they need?" Natasha Chalk says teachers need to take a minute to talk to a child in lessons to understand why they are behaving in a particular way. What do you think teachers?👇 #Behaviour #Teaching #TeacherLife #SEND #teachertok #teachersoftiktok

@Thinkingschool2 Fallacy of composition

For 15 years, schools have become exam factories. Teachers have forgotten to do anything else. They don't have the skillset anymore to focus on motivation, mindset and skills development.

@CathleenLacey @brightmorningtm @adamboxer1 @XpatEducator This is cognitive overload and a misunderstand of the principles. It is like using Rosenshine to create a check list of what to see in one lesson.

What if a school never looked at the new ofsted framework and continued as normal. How would they do when the inspection came?