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@EnserMark @greeborunner @TeachingHawks94 these are some fantastic principles to look at with our new curriculum.

*** NEW POST *** With the Curriculum and Assessment Review on its way, @greeborunner and I look at the mistakes schools make with the curriculum - and how great schools get it right. This also the focus of part of our forthcoming book How Do They Do It? tes.com/magazine/teach…

@savechildrenuk planning a lesson teaching my year four (8/9 year) pupils about refugees and the migration through Europe. Considering using the most shocking day video. So you have an age suggestion for this film as I'm aware it may be too much for their age.

@Emma_Turner75 The huge benefit of worksheet/workbooks is the ability to reduce cognitive load and provide scaffolding which is reduce bit by bit. Often feels like this huge benefit and children's learning is forgotten in this discussion.

Primary maths ‘paper on paper’ approaches. The default in 100s of schools now seems to be the vast majority of work in books made up of endless photocopied sheets stuck in. Tiny boxes in which to write, no space for expanded thinking, not to mention double the paper resources.

@EmilyTammam @drkathrynmannix @6monthspodcast @SammyWinemaker @Lucy_Selman Maybe @ladycariad 's @thegriefcast has an episode that may focus on this.

Can you suggest podcasts or books that focus on the unpredictability of death? The anxiety that you experience when your loved one deteriorates and rallies, again and again? What helped you keep going? Any ideas? @drkathrynmannix @6monthspodcast @SammyWinemaker @Lucy_Selman

@englishspecial Funded nursery places would make it affordable for teachers to go back to work full-time.

I’m a little worried that no political party yet seems to have an idea of how to solve the shortage of teachers crisis in the UK. What ideas would you like to see a political party embrace?

@WhistleblowingT I still remember being taken on the stop the Iraq war demonstration. Made no difference to the outcome but made a difference to what I believe in and made me go into working for human rights campaigns. Child will not forget it and will learn from everyone there.

@AdamBPrimary If you have the will, you can organise a picket line which then allows the others to refuse to cross it and join you.

@MichaelT1979 Generally agree although often the week of an inset, means no PPA which then means all are starting the term on the back foot.

@Theholisticpsyc Do you have a link to any research showing negative effects. Reading cribsheet and so far it seems there is very limited research showing cry it out is negative.

The “cry it out method” quite literally goes against our human nature. When children are upset they need co-regulation from a parent. That is how we (eventually) learn to self soothe, through the soothing of a parent.

@rhiannonlucyc Molyvos on the island of lesvos is great. Been coming for 20 years and it's always stayed the same. Jet 2 fly here. 1 hr transfer. Delfinia and amfritriti pretty good hotel options.

@emmccatt The difference between primary and secondary is stark.

@CensoredHead Should be both. It only doesn't seem sensible after 10 yrs of Tory austerity. Real terms pay cut is not a good deal.

Maybe I am talking for myself, but I think most people working in education are realistic and believe the offered pay rises are fair (below inflation, but this is a temporary high). I think the unions would be better fighting for funding to pay for them rather than going for more

@jalebijournal Toto the ninja cat although I read it as their final book.

@Dorastar1 @joanne_jobutts @letsgetmathing If you use present mode it has the next slide on your computer but not the projected image.

@joanne_jobutts @letsgetmathing I struggle to know what's coming next even if I've made them!

@AndyMFielder @letsgetmathing Yes to this. The interactive side of screens is so much less important than having a board you can write properly on.

@letsgetmathing I preferred to project onto a whiteboard. That enabled me to scribble - sorry, annotate all over it!

@MrsVRE Can't say I agree. I generally find a written plan to not be of much use but a well thought out PowerPoint (e.g. instructions written up so children can look back) to be the most valuable thing. In my last School we also added lesson notes to the first slide.

@WhistleblowingT When I had a transition day last year my current school requested a supply teacher be paid for by new school. They said it was standard.

@MrAllington Surely this depends on the person. I taught as an English language teacher in Spain for 3 years before PGCE. So as an ECT I already had 3 years in class. What if someone ran a school abroad and trained teachers to teach.

@DeputyGrocott Polenta!

How on earth do people get pizza dough from the worktop to a pizza peel and then into the oven?! I need top tips as I’m not great yet!

@michael_merrick @bentleykarl No you really are devaluing higher education a nd appear to put this argument out about once a month and have the same arguments with people.