Philippa Rowe

It’s not spoken about enough. instagram.com/reel/C_3rKUvo4…

Britain's Crumbling Schools is on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer now #BBCPanorama bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Grateful for a quiet Sunday morning working on our coaching resources for staff #exeter

Explicit Teaching Definition: Concepts are fully explained and procedures fully demonstrated before novices are asked to apply those concepts or procedures Features that increase effectiveness - highly interactive - new material presented in small steps with practice after each step - big investment in ‘we do’ - whole class response systems eg mini whiteboards, cold calling, think-pair-share - lots of spaced practice - pitched so students obtain 80%+ success rate - as students move from novice to expert, balance shifts to them solving/completing more steps themselves The ultimate destination is for students to solve complex problems or produce complex products on their own Links: amazon.com.au/Power-Explicit… aft.org/sites/default/… belmontteach.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/brophy…

Finishing off the working week right. Thank you #devon for always knowing when to help me catch my breath. So grateful to live in such a beautiful part of the world! 🙏🏼 #teacher #teacherlife #leadership #education #edutwitter #edux

Summer reading: Highly recommended. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As @ExmouthCollege gears up to take part in the Autism in Schools Project I wanted to do some research of my own. @N gives a rare and honest insight 🙏🏼 Read in 1.5 days couldn’t stop!

Last weekend we asked the 9,000 teachers on @TeacherTapp about the kindest thing a pupil or colleague had done in the past half-term. 3,285 of you responded and by response 647 I was in tears. You people are lovely ❤️ Here's a thread of, well, loads of them... 🧵 (Grab tissues)

@sarahlarsen74 @sheilamouna @TheStudentLeads Totally agree. And through drop ins students are not able to articulate how staff feedback. This is our message; students need to learn the common language. I’m all for verbal feedback as long as it feeds forward. And students act on it.

@rowe_philippa @sheilamouna @TheStudentLeads This is where professional trust needs to play a part. Particularly when written marking is more onerous on staff time and verbal feedback has no detrimental effect on outcomes. Conversations with staff and children can ensure that feedback is being given and acted upon.

As the years go by, I become more and more passionate about developing school workplaces that ditch irrelevances, cut workload, genuinely care about wellbeing and support staff to be high quality teachers. What are your biggest weekly time wastes?

@sarahlarsen74 @sheilamouna @TheStudentLeads We have done this. Launched in September. 8 choices for delta/staff to chose from to feedback. The feedback from middle leaders is they don’t like it. Would rather have clearer guidelines with amount of marking expected. Helps them to hold staff to account for no visible feedback

@sheilamouna @TheStudentLeads Or even ‘feedback guidance’. Ours reads like a menu of choices that staff can use as they see fit, rather than strict frequencies and one-size-fits-all non-negotiables.

@teacherhead @m_chiles @ExmouthCollege @olicav @johntomsett Yes please! philippa.rowe@exmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk

@rowe_philippa @m_chiles @ExmouthCollege @olicav @johntomsett Teach to the top is one of my specialities! Happy to explore…. email?

My usual new academic year focus tweet 👇 Teach to the top 🔝 Scaffold up 🪜 Ask lots of questions ⁉️ Check for understanding 👀 Activate regular spaced retrieval 📂 Provide guided feedback 🔁 Explain with precision 🎯 Model excellence 🔍 Develop self-regulation 🧐

@m_chiles @ExmouthCollege @teacherhead @olicav We are very excited to be welcoming @teacherhead and @johntomsett into College this year. If you know of any training companies that would be great! Thank you for replying!

@rowe_philippa @ExmouthCollege @teacherhead @olicav and the Walkthru trainers

@TAPthankUK @Headteacherchat We use @TAPthankUK it’s a great tool!

@Headteacherchat We'd love to help! Please take a look at thankandpraise.org - our free-to-use digital thanking walls provide an ideal platform for staff recognition!

Can anyone help anon? I’m looking for ideas for staff recognition. Something sustainable, worthwhile and not too expensive! Can you suggest where I could find some ideas?

@SaysMiss Send later is also hugely encouraged.

@SaysMiss We have a no All Staff email policy (except emergency). It means that anything all staff has to be planned and entered into our staff bulletin on a Friday. This stops staff being peppered with information and actions throughout the week. Which they can easily loose track of.

Bolstering the argument for an email curfew further. In a previous workplace, emails would often merely act as a way for the sender to offload work to the receiver. forbes.com/sites/lbsbusin…

COMING THIS FRIDAY Our brand new guidance report - Effective Professional Development 08/10/2021

Ok edu-nerds: here is the MEGA-THREAD you have been waiting for...blogs from times gone past that you probably haven't read, but probably should. Buckle up. Rules go in the second tweet, blogs start in the third tweet. Read, and share. >

Barriers to Effective CPD teacherhead.com/2014/07/06/bar…

Best team away/team building days for teachers! Post Covid ofcourse! ???? #staffwellbeing #teambuilding #teachers #teacher5oclockclub