pickandmicks

This is why incompetent people get promoted ? What do you think..

For generations, kids had three worlds: 1. Home 2. School 3. A third place; the park, the field, the neighborhood, the church gym, the rec center. That third place is where kids learned: • how to solve problems without an adult • how to read emotions and faces • how to handle conflict • how to lose • how to make friends • how to negotiate and compromise • how to sit with frustration • how to just be a kid But today? Most kids' third place is a screen. A screen doesn’t teach boundaries. A screen doesn’t teach emotional regulation. A screen doesn’t teach cooperation or conflict skills. A screen doesn’t teach patience or self-control. So all the social and emotional skills kids used to practice before they walked into school… they have to learn inside school now. And that’s why: behavior feels different attention feels different emotions feel bigger classroom management is tougher. This isn’t a “kids these days” problem. It’s a cultural shift. When the third place disappears, childhood changes. And schools end up carrying what the community used to teach. Until kids get their third place back, we’re going to keep seeing the fallout

@sammilighthead Depends where you are from. As a southerner, it is a yes for me!

French natives: is "je serais" and "je serai" pronounced the same?

@ballater6 @BarryNSmith79 The best HT I worked with still taught , regularly covered lessons, walked the corridors, was rarely in her office, spoke to staff and students, was on duty everyday, made her presence felt, ran assemblies and supported her staff.

@BarryNSmith79 Agree that you have to had been a good teacher to become a headteacher but you become deskilled as a teacher when you become a HT through lack of constant teaching, this doesn’t make you a bad HT, you can still have empathy and know what should be done to help and improve others

Said it for years. A lot of heads aren’t good teachers. SLT often inherited. Often internal candidates. People often employed for ability to speak Ofsted language.

@PHoare1963 @ffcabroad @Strickomaster It is well documented that MFL suffers from severe grading and is seen as one of the most challenging subjects on the secondary curriculum. Lots of research has been carried out about the complexity of exams, the grading and boundaries compared to other subjects.

@mflpickandmicks @ffcabroad @Strickomaster I’ve never heard MFL subjects being described as hard? 🤔 That’s usually aimed at Maths & Sciences? I’m a chemist but I’m not a fan of compulsory science to GCSE. The pandemic proved that it hasn’t made the masses more scientifically literate! 😲 (the daft argument for it! 🙄)

@PHoare1963 @ffcabroad @Strickomaster If I had my way, I would steer towards a European education system model.

@mflpickandmicks @ffcabroad @Strickomaster I’m not saying don’t offer a wide range of subjects in schools - what I am saying is give kids a free choice (bar Maths & English) for GCSE? Dont force them to take subjects they may not be interested in or have no aptitude in (and you’ll certainly know that by yr9!).

@PHoare1963 @ffcabroad @Strickomaster Every subject has its value and develops a range of skills that are complementary. Do I remember the content of my history or biology course? Of course not! Am I glad that I was given opportunities at school? Of course yes!

@ffcabroad @Strickomaster that’s not what I said! French has been of no practical use to me. I’ve never visited France. I’m sure they’ve been useful to many others? But perhaps we should learn a language that’s widely spoken around the world like Chinese or Spanish? Traditionally it was French or German?

@sammilighthead @PHoare1963 @ffcabroad @Strickomaster I know people who have never left England, some others who have only visited Benidorm!

@PHoare1963 @ffcabroad @Strickomaster Jeez. What have you done with your life not having visited France? You're missing out my friend. Book it for your next holiday! 🤣

Hi all, We are looking for another Staff Governor. The last one was full of good ideas and initiatives to reduce workload and maximise non-teaching time and kept asking questions, so we had to get rid of him. Ideally, we are looking for a “Yes man”. Like all the others. Thanks x

@Strickomaster @EmInYorkshire A lot of schools also target MFL to the most able.

@sammilighthead @Strickomaster Recruiting linguists is harder than ever …

@Strickomaster Very fortunately, there aren't many language specialists joining the sector.

@PerseusLeGrand Beaucoup de belles villes en France, difficile d’élire la plus belle mais Albi est en effet une ville magnifique.

@BarryNSmith79 @m_chiles Issue is when leaders make the rules and do not enforce them ie walk past students with coats for example when the rule is no coat indoors!! If leaders don’t challenge, staff will not either …

@m_chiles Schools very rarely do this. Adults allow pupils to be rude. Adults don’t deliberately model courtesy. So the power struggle adult v child continues.

It’s been interesting seeing the posts and threads on behaviour. We use the phrase - ‘Connect before you correct’ - A potential scenario in high schools is a student wearing a coat inside when the rule is no outdoor coats. “Tom, are you okay?” “Yes, sir. Why?” “You have your coat on inside the building when the rule is no outdoor coats” “I couldn’t be bothered to carry it” How would you deal with this in your school? 👀⬇️

@musicteachinguk @adamboxer1 The biggest reason teachers quit is working conditions and mainly behaviour ime. Reason why schools in more challenging contexts are likely to have higher turnover of staff!

@adamboxer1 This goes on for years. If there are multiple students in the same school who do this, many of them will not end up being PEXd. And we wonder why teachers quit.

This is terrifyingly accurate

@Strickomaster @ACT2CAM Having worked in several schools I totally agree with you. Seen schools change for the better or the worse and it was always down to what you preach! 👍

@BarryNSmith79 Graduates starting salary similar to teachers starting salary. Competitive to get a good graduate job. It is not the salary putting graduates off teaching imo, it is the working conditions, beh, workload vs pay. As a result, lower quality grads go into teaching now.

Again, I don’t think teacher salary uncompetitive.

@JamesAFurey Well said. Boils down to poor leadership!

Teacher burnout has a lot to do with student behavior, yes, but more to do with lack of support for dealing with student behavior. There's only so many times you can bang your head against a wall before you give up, and there's only so long a time you can give up before you just walk away.

@Strickomaster @ACT2CAM We need more leaders like you. Leadership in schools is a big issue imo, too many schools where poor systems, structures and low expectations drive good staff away.

@Strickomaster No leaders should accept less than they would want for their own children. Unfortunately, not always the case!