Chris Watson

@mrshorrix @KateJones_teach What a fantastic session - thank you @KateJones_teach

Fabulous to have @KateJones_teach deliver a presentation on feedback at our INSET today. Lots of ideas of how to ensure my feedback moves my pupils’ learning forward.

@MrLux4DMoore @MicrosoftEDU Well done mate!

It’s a #privilege to be welcomed back into the @MicrosoftEDU #MIEExpert family again this year. Excited for the year ahead to #support, #learn and #innovate with this amazing #community of educators. 🙏🏻 #TeamMIEEScotland.

With some families settling into the new routines of the school year & others getting ready, we recognise this time can also be an anxious one for many young people. Don’t let tech add to that angst. Use it to its full & realise how your strengths can harness its capability.

Anyone heard of @ThingLink but never been sure how it can augment content and foster creativity? I’ve been so impressed with it over the last seven years. It’s been an intrinsic part of my #PedTech toolkit. See what you think: refer.thinglink.com/l/SIMONLUXFO30/

What’s the key to using AI effectively? Like all things tech-related, it’s realising it’s just a tool & you’re the expert. Be #confident & #competent and explore #AiEd with the support of #LuxfordEDU Get in touch at info@luxfordedu.com or visit us at luxfordedu.com

Teachers today shouldn’t completely disagree on what great teaching looks like – not when you take into account the weight of the research evidence on effective teaching, writes @BruceNextLevel tes.com/magazine/teach…

‘Flexibility for schools to use other methods than systematic synthetic phonics to teach reading and spelling…’ er…guessing?

ICYMI: We've been looking in to the way reading is taught in early years in Wales and across the UK 👇🧵 itv.com/news/2025-02-0…

@Bruce_NextLevel @dylanwiliam @ProfCoe @john_hattie @C_Hendrick @KateJones_teach @PatriceBain1 @JohnCattEd Can’t wait to get a copy!

Power Up Your Questioning is complete! I’m delighted with how it’s turned out 😊 @dylanwiliam has written the foreword and there are testimonials by @ProfCoe, @john_hattie, @C_Hendrick, Lindsay Paterson, @KateJones_teach & @PatriceBain1. Pre-order here: amzn.eu/d/fwmOtOp

@Bruce_NextLevel Can’t thank you enough for a fantastic session today, Bruce!

A brilliant day working with primary and secondary schools in Edinburgh today. We were focusing on powering up our questioning and pupil-led learning. Tomorrow, I’m in Crieff and focusing on how we can power up our differentiation (adaptive teaching) 😊

Vested interests have an iron grip on Scotland’s failing education system thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

A national report evaluating learning and teaching in mathematics education in Scotland has been published by HM Inspectors. Read the full report and recommendations: ow.ly/Con850UhC0O

Last call for bookings👇 Really looking forward to seeing everyone who’s coming to the conference on Saturday 😊

For anyone interested in early reading, this is a must @ehanford @MrMcEnaney

Brilliant to have so many middle and senior leaders at the inaugural ‘Power Up Your Leadership of Teaching & Learning Conference’ in Edinburgh today. We unpacked leadership of pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and professional learning. A wonderful group of people to work with 😊

Absolutely fantastic day of learning at the Power Up Your Leadership of T and L Conference with @Bruce_NextLevel . Left so enthused and full of ideas. Thank you!

@scotshurdler Well done!!!

NEW: The Welsh government has changed its position on the way English reading is taught in Wales for the third time in three weeks. Full story here and more below👇 itv.com/news/2024-10-1…

I do think there’s a very unhelpful conflation of discovery learning and play. Play is freely chosen by the child and serves specific developmental functions in humans; it also happens to be how young children make sense of some aspects the world.