Ilja van Weringh

A timely read for teachers heading back into the classroom - relationships and expectations are keys to successful classrooms for all. Building Relationships With Students on Positive Words and High Expectations edutopia.org/article/buildi…

Belonging is a BIG DEAL in school. It can supercharge behaviour and learning... or it can lead to depression and shorter lifespans 🤯 Let's unpack why: ↓

For folks who couldn't make my #rED presentation on 'The Future (Science) of Teaching', here's a rather long & dirty summary: ↓

Free downloadable poster summaries of how to set/ reset behaviour at the start of the year. Please RT to anyone who might this useful tombennetttraining.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

“We have lost perspective,” Zoe Daniel says, denouncing the hate speech pervading the Voice. And she’s right. Even a quick glance at the CPAC event, at Michaelia Cash's tirade at the No launch, relays fearmongering & division. It's pure, petty politics for the LNP #QandA #auspol

Holding back test marks for a bit can increase student* engagement with feedback and boost performance. 🎓Effects of Temporary Mark Withholding on Academic Performance by Kuepper-Tetzel & Gardner journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… (🔓) *Study done on Uni students

So after a random call with Satya from @quizizz yesterday.. I am now hosting a training about #quizzizAI this Saturday 🤣. Audience is aimed at Aussie teachers, so if you know some teachers based in Aus please let me know and I can DM the details to them!🤓💙 #bettertogether

You *can* finish each class as strongly as you started it. Try optimistic closures, which allow students to connect, reflect, and look forward as you wrap for the day. 💫

Top 20 principles from psychology for teaching and learning of students with disabilities 🔓apa.org/ed/schools/tea…

Classroom teaching is one of the hardest tasks ever devised (waaay harder than brain surgery). Yet many people think it's easy. This is the 'paradox of teacher expertise'. ↓

🚨 NEW! This one-pager summarises Dylan Wiliam and Siobhán Leahy’s five formative assessment strategies that teachers can use to move learners forward. 📥 Grab a HQ copy: jamieleeclark.com/graphics ☕️ Support my work: ko-fi.com/xpateducator

🧵 T&L principles are commonplace but often miss the conceptual framework required to ensure it is not a matter of pedagogy before subject. Whilst simpler to convey to teachers as an agreed lesson to lesson format, they can sometimes lead to huge distortions..

@cpaterso This is a great approach. Having a ‘principles and values’ document created by each learning area is a great idea too.

This black X logo is so unappealing. When I click on it I feel like I’ll be entering some right wing app for Republican men, some weird s@x club, or a vague financial ponzi start-up. It does not feel like an inviting community app. Nice work Elon.

This is an *epic* collection from @joe__kirby. 🎓 21 seminal articles by teachers on curriculum. Each with a link and one-sentence summary.

Great news for the @QualityTeachingRounds.

@HistoryDetect The X is putting me off Twitter even more. I love the teacher community on here, but Elon and the subsequent antics have soured things for me, and this ominous black X is not helping matters.

So, that's what I tell my students every semester about the university's namesake. In my opinion (clearly not my employer's), we should not have an institution (or street, or anything) named after this man.

Do Teachers Have Sway in School Decisions? Depends Who You Ask. (Almost all school leaders think that teachers are involved in making important school decisions—but just over half of teachers would agree.) #wespl edweek.org/teaching-learn…

“The point isn’t to be the hero and solve things; the point of the leader in a complex world is to enable and unleash as many heroes and as many solutions as possible.” (Jennifer Garvey-Berger, via @Futures_Ed)