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🎁 FREE GIFT: FULL ROSENSHINE CPD PACK! To celebrate 50 consecutive weeks of ⚗️DistillED, I’ve put together something quite cool… Over the past year, Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction has been one of the most requested topics from teachers and school leaders. So I’ve put together a complete, ready-to-run CPD pack to help schools explore and implement all 10 principles. The download includes: → 10 CPD PowerPoints (ready for 30–45 min sessions) → 10 strategy checklists (practical classroom actions) → 10 planning templates (put principles into action ) → Covers all 10 of Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction Everything you need to run ten focused CPD sessions — one for each principle. 👉 REPOST and comment ROSENSHINE and I’ll DM you the link. Cheers! ⏰ Available until Sunday 22 March!

Come and join our fantastic team in the beautiful Scottish countryside 🌊🌳🥃🏔️ Teacher of Biology / Science - Forres Academy - MOR11106 | Moray Council | myjobscotland myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/moray… # via @myjobscotland

📢Applications are NOW OPEN to all S2 girls in Scotland for our Young WEIR WISE programme. 300 places are available, with 200 girls attending on campus in January, and 100 attending virtually. An amazing opportunity to find out more about Engineering study tinyurl.com/yp4wc3hf

- Classroom phone bans reduced academic inequality: lower-performing students gained most, whilst high achievers showed minimal change. - Classroom spot checks showed fewer disruptions, more engaged teachers, and fewer off-task behaviours. - Interestingly, while students felt a slight increase in FOMO, this did not translate into poorer well-being or reduced motivation. - Students who experienced phone bans in classrooms became significantly more supportive of such policies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

⚠️All S5 pupils in Scotland now have only 1 week to apply for our 2025 Scottish Space School⚠️ Join us on campus for 1 week in June, learn more about engineering study and meet NASA astronauts and engineers!🚀 Apply before the deadline on 17 March bit.ly/strathSSS

Come and join our fabulous team at Forres Academy in a beautiful part of the world 🌳🌸 Teaching posts out for an August start: 🧑‍🍳 HE Teacher, 🎨 Art & Design 🪚 Design & Technology 🧮 Maths myjobscotland.gov.uk/search?keyword…

TODAY’S THE DAY! Applications are OPEN to all S5 pupils in Scotland for Scottish Space School 2025🚀 The non-residential programme will be running on campus from 9-13 June. Meet NASA astronauts & engineers and learn more about engineering study bit.ly/strathSSS

📢Applications are now OPEN for our Engineering the Future for Girls outreach programme, which is running at the University of Strathclyde in May 2025. An amazing opportunity for S3 girls to find out more about Engineering study and careers. Apply now: bit.ly/2RtXPUG

@dnleslie @Bruce_NextLevel Or indeed on pupils leading learning/less teacher led. What’s the point of having a subject qualified teacher if the kids can ‘discover’ it all themselves 🙄.

@Bruce_NextLevel One of many ideologically driven comments that have little to no evidence base. Similar to ‘requires less teacher led and more student led’ and the requirement to ‘differentiate more’ despite no one being able to share how to do this

Schools across Scotland keep telling me they’re being criticised in inspections because students aren’t ‘co-constructing’ success criteria. It’s a great example of feedback that’s got more grounding in ideology than in sound pedagogical principles.

@clairelbills @MrsSmithMaths12 @TeacherTapp In my case I have taught secondary classes for a number of years now without a TA as the classes that landed on my TT didn’t warrant one based on needs of pupils elsewhere being higher. The last year I taught with a TA in class was pre Covid

@MrsSmithMaths12 @TeacherTapp Good point A yes be interesting to see that split too. I wonder why secondary wouldn’t benefit though? Is it related to streaming do you think? Teaching style?

Massively surprised by this - I wonder about number of years teaching vs answer. Lots of newer teachers won’t realise the difference having a skilled TA in class makes to wellbeing and ability to support all properly! ⁦@TeacherTapp⁩

Next week is our Pathways week where we will be working together for a bright future for all our pupils -departments who will help you understand the different courses on offer as pupils begin to consider their next step and over 30 employers and post school partners.

@GWmag Chrysanthemum, kale and cyclamen brightening up our back door

What's still flowering in your garden? 🌸 Show us your autumn flowers by adding a picture to the thread and we'll share a few of our favourites next week!

@Teachers4Perm And yet in some areas we can’t get supply for love nor money, let along in a subject you really need for. There are some councils (rural) that are struggling to fill vacancies.

We conducted a survey of over 346 supply teachers to find out how much work they’ve experienced since the start of the academic year, 2024. - 🚨80% reported very little or NO supply work🚨 - Only 8% were offered fixed-term contracts* of a year or more - Aberdeen, Angus, Edinburgh, and Glasgow saw over 30% reporting no supply work - In some councils, over 60% of respondents had less than a month of supply work Out of the respondents who reported 'No supply work', 84 (62.69%) indicated that their Local Authority has advertised for supply recruitment this year. How are teachers supposed to pay bills if they don’t have any work available to earn a living?

@MrARobbins @cogscisci Managed to catch a few remotely yesterday (they were great) and grateful for the option to catch up with recordings. Would never manage to go in person due to distance.

Thanks to everyone who came to #cogscisci24 today. I hope you enjoyed it and found it useful @cogscisci 🙏

More opportunities to work in the best wee school! Please share 💖

Key leadership position as we continue on an exciting and fast paced improvement journey as well as heading for our new building 😊 Please share and encourage any interested people to get in touch ⬇️ myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/moray…

PT Social Subjects, PT Drama, Teachers of BGE numeracy, HE, Chemistry - still time to apply ⬇️ Come join us on an exciting journey myjobscotland.gov.uk/search?org=263…