Nick Moss

@tombennett71 I don’t get you Tom Bennett- your ‘certainty’ worries me - I realise this is what you get paid for but at what point do you pause to consider a pupil’s needs ? They ( the pupils) are people after all.

This is truly *terrible* advice. If a student's behaviour has deteriorated to the point they need to be removed, they need to be removed, and consequences applied outside the classroom. Otherwise you normalise disruption- and humiliate the teacher. Awful edutopia.org/article/keepin…

I have changed the Ofsted grading on my school self evaluation from ‘goods’ to ‘trying hard’

@PaulGarvey4 I understand the zero tolerance thing - we’ve all felt the desire for it when our ‘control’ begins to slip but committing to it as your guiding principle ? Too often the humanity present in this note is less likely under zero tolerance.

This is just marvellous. #noexcuses and #zerotolerance schools need not apply… but should do; all of them. 😀

@Sue_Cowley Absolutely Sue- teaching is about people, hence emotions involved. There is a science to teaching but the science can’t become dogma. If you ignore the emotional, the science is weakened and the teaching loses meaning.

The thing about teaching is that it isn't just about methods, theories and knowledge. It's about teachers as people, dealing with emotions (their own and the children's).

@Edu_Historian @nancyflanagan The sad thing is teaching is such a fine profession to be in - when you come across a class literally humming with goodwill and energy, it feels like a miracle performed - a beautiful thing - but then a paucity of respect saps all that goodwill and energy from teachers.

@Sue_Cowley No

The point about university is that you're not just receiving knowledge, you're learning how to challenge and build on it. Does anyone seriously want ITE as training into a govt approved way of doing things? 🤷‍♀️

@Headteacherchat @AlisonMPeacock Yes to Alison Yes to Debra Kidd Yes to Dylan William Yes to Shirley Clarke - no to anyone indulging in being an Ofsted inspector and no to politicians

If I could have an in-person coffee chat with anyone in the education world, it'd be @alisonmpeacock because she has radiated positivity about our profession and continued to support teachers. Who would you choose?

@history_CMc And there’s me thinking they needed lots of facts at their finger tips first !

@JulesDaulby Of course it is - again!

DfE and a few others convinced teacher training at universities in England is poor. It’s rubbish of course - this is purely political. #ITTMarketReview

@DrBiddulph Me and my ball

Joy. What more do we need??

@Carter6D Absolutely -the difference in results, far from being about differences in quality ( I have experienced both state and independent - 100% it is not about quality) is yet another indicator of the significant and damaging inequality in society as a whole- discuss this not schools.

@FrankWNorris Thank you Frank - the misrepresentation of educational reality is draining and unhelpful; indicative more of a slightly toxic society than of anything to do with education itself.

Finally, may I ask reporters/ politicians not say children leave primary school unable to read. Very few cannot read and this is usually down to a specific learning need. A small proportion do not read well and struggle with more technical vocabulary and texts. A big difference.

@smithsmm This is such a thoughtless thing to say - think before you write.

Teachers in our school worked everyday, taught everyday online. The biggest barriers for our families were access to devices and the internet which the government wholly failed to solve so we did it ourselves. No unions stopped our teachers, teaching.

@Thinkingschool2 Don’t mind competition - teaches useful stuff like learning to lose - but don’t believe it belongs at the heart of the education system. Personally I believe in mixed ability teaching over setting- we make it work in terms of the learning and pupils learn to appreciate each other

Would teachers be happy to be grouped in their school in terms of high ability, middle ability or low ability? Why we so quick to do it to our students?

@Thinkingschool2 The whole blinking system revolves around grading and competition - between schools, teachers, pupils -with the assumption this will lead to the best outcomes.

@MaryBoustedNEU @Miss_Snuffy Ofsted gradings have no place in my world - agreed pass or support. And try to restructure so has potential to be more developmental - but this would require a relationship with said school rather than a once every few years insulting scratch at the surface

This may be a first. I absolutely agree with @Miss_Snuffy.

@MaryBoustedNEU @Miss_Snuffy And are you trying to tell me that some people can come to our school, to our community for 1 or 2 days and tell me/ us something I don’t already know after years of work. I find Ofsted such a poor judge of my school nowadays that I don’t even bother reading the report.

@MaryBoustedNEU @Miss_Snuffy Ditto - I find myself constantly dismayed by the professional time taken lost to people fretting about Ofsted and the educationally weak decisions made on the back end of this fretting.

@RobBradshaw73 Yeh - well - just a little humility is all one would ask for- to just keep asking questions- it is a little tragic that such an expensive education leads so reliably to this cul-de-sac of tribalism and hubris

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!