Cat Chowdhary

It is really surreal seeing my book out in the world… add to your wish list and pre-order from 6th February with a 20% discount here: routledge.com/So-What-Does-a… Massive thank you to all @routledgebooks who have turned my ideas into a reality. @Molly_Routledge @BrucePublisher

I’m so excited to be speaking at this years ADTC. If you’re attending, let’s connect—I’d love to hear your ideas and share insights to advance high-quality education. See you there! #EducationMatters #TeacherLeadership #ADTC2025 #VisibleLearning #ProgressInLessons

🎉 Excited to be speaking at the Abu Dhabi Teaching Conference 2025! 🎉Join me on Saturday, 1st February 2025 at BSAD, where I’ll be presenting on “Know Your Impact: Progress in Lessons”. I look forward to seeing you there! Let's make a difference together. 💡#ADTC2025

🎉 Book #2 Submitted! 📚✍️ This has been a labour of love, countless cups of tea, and hours of reflection and writing. Each chapter represents not only my experience but also my passion for helping teachers navigate the art and science of education.

📣 SPEAKER APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 📣 Tell a friend, tell your colleagues, tell your story! 🤩 #ADTC2025 speaker applications are now OPEN 🤩 🗓️ Applications will close at 4 pm on Thursday 21 November 🗓️ ⬇️ Apply today ⬇️ forms.gle/LsR8DURpCHAeCU…

Today I had the absolute honour and privilege of meeting my absolute educational hero - John Hattie! #teachingandlearing #collectiveteacherefficacy #visiblelearning @tandfeducation @tandfeducation @BrucePublisher @john_hattie

Such a pleasure to present at #gessdubai discussing my new book - So What Does an ‘Outstanding’ Teacher Do? @GESSeducation

@abid_patel says “if you didn’t take a selfie it didn’t happen” So, here’s the time @Cat_Chowdhary and I finally met @Nalini_ISCR & @EstherMDaniels IRL! #OSME23

Listening to @E_Sheninger as keynote at #OSME discussing disruptive thinking in the classroom 👏

Looking forward to #OSME today, caught up with @Cat_Chowdhary & talked all things #learning! Check out her book So... What Does an Outstanding Teacher Do?: A Visible Learning Evidence Based Approach amzn.eu/d/dNuWbth

@ballater6 @TTRadioOfficial Totally - it is so counter intuitive giving these labels. And it’s so much more than being ‘outstanding’. You can’t fit it into a tick list criteria. Those labels would give me so much anxiety and stress.

@TTRadioOfficial @Cat_Chowdhary Good teacher us good enough for me -helps no one the outstanding label still after all these years not sure if I could identify outstanding - good yes-brilliant-yes inspiring- yes

‘An outstanding teacher is different to a good teacher… being outstanding isn’t a tick list, if you get an outstanding in a one off lesson doesn’t make you an outstanding teacher, being outstanding is so much more than that’ @Cat_Chowdhary twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKb…

@Bethan_Southern @TTRadioOfficial Absolutely 👏 and that’s why I discuss how counter intuitive it was and how you can’t make a snap judgement based on one lesson. All teachers can grown and develop with support and guidance, not with a label. Unfortunately here in Abu Dhabi we do still get judgements!

@TTRadioOfficial @Cat_Chowdhary Why are we still labelling teachers and getting other teachers to make this so called “judgement call”? Ugh. No wonder this profession is on its knees. 🙄

@JamesTheo @TTRadioOfficial What I would say to those who don’t see the point and don’t like it is, that’s fine. But I would suggest thinking about the questions you are posing. It’s not about ‘do you like my lesson’ ‘ do you like me’ - it’s about ‘did you understand my lesson?’ ‘Did this make sense’

@Cat_Chowdhary @TTRadioOfficial And some people love it because they can't teach but just make sure they are popular with kids?

‘It’s probably someone who has had a negative comment if they are against student voice, you are going to have teenagers who are very sharp’ @Cat_Chowdhary is asked what she would say to those who have a negative view of student voice twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKb…

@JamesTheo @TTRadioOfficial That would be an example of why that wouldn’t be purposeful.

@JamesTheo @TTRadioOfficial Taken out of context to what was being discussed. But I agree - some people don’t like student voice because they don’t see the purpose of it. Some don’t like it because they have had a bad experience of it. It’s about the purpose - it’s got to be beneficial, and purposefully.

@TTRadioOfficial @Cat_Chowdhary This is an awful position to take: assign motives for people's views based on a false assumption about their experiences. It's something people without an argument do.

@BarryNSmith79 @TTRadioOfficial It’s all to do with purpose - what is the purpose you are doing it for? Is it to genuinely get an answer, or is it another tick box exercise? As I said, for me it was more of using it to get a feel of whether each class were getting the same quality.

@TTRadioOfficial @Cat_Chowdhary I tend to think student voice is disingenuous. Schools presenting as changing policy in line with pupil comments but essentially window dressing for ofsted. Seen too many ‘you said/we did’ posters as ofsted about to arrive. Concept that kids decide school policy not for me.

@oldandrewuk @TTRadioOfficial There’s always one 🙈😂

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@MissFolorunsho @Cat_Chowdhary Caught the final ten minutes of this. Enjoyed it, interesting thoughts to reflect on. Will listen to all of it. Have a good weekend!

@Hayo_luke @MissFolorunsho Thank you @Hayo_luke 🙏

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‘tweaking my lessons to be more student led rather than teacher led’ @Cat_Chowdhary on outstanding teaching twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKb…