Why do students seek feedback – or choose not to? In our newly published study, we explore the influence of student motivation on their feedback seeking practices. Huge congratulations to the talented Belinda Zhou on her first publication! 🥳 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Article on teaching the really quite useless English Language syllabus: open.substack.com/pub/philbeadle…

Thank you to the Ambulance crew and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust staff in A&E and on wards 2B and 6D who cared for Dad this week and have got him well enough to come home this afternoon. 👏👏👏

I have the privilege of some refugees attending my ESOL group. Honestly, I need to find a way for everyone to meet refugees and get to hear about their experiences. I particularly enjoyed talking about the importance of education for girls ❤️

Some superb technical knowledge and skills. A Levels are great as are high quality technical qualifications.

How beautiful the water meadows were that long-ago June morning in Old Fox's village! The mists rising from the river, the almond scent of the meadowsweet, the high, damp grasses and the dragonflies, like bright enamel automatons darting between path and thicket and pool. Hare

Wolf was lying on the stone floor in the kitchen. It's too hot & I'm not moving, don't care, not going to bed, staying here. Old Fox found him a soft pink Witney blanket to lie on & gave him an extremely cold glass of milk & some apple cake. I think you're being very sensible,

Dad out and about in the Upper Calder Valley this lunchtime…enjoying the sunshine…a bite to eat…and a vanilla latte #CostadelCalderdale

Dad’s ‘healthy option’ dessert for tea tonight… He’ll be having a couple of Lindor milk chocolates for ‘afters’…just in case you were concerned…

Old Fox and the Goddess of War were standing at the edge of a barley field up on the hamlet heights. Before them, on the horizon, was the sea, the dark, silvery colour of barrow swords. Above, two buzzards circled. The Goddess of War had a dress of bronze flecked in red. She wore

A key post in an important thread.

The ‘Vanilla Latte Kid’ out and about in the #UpperCalderValley this lunchtime…

Someone stole from me once, said Wolf, stole a whole article I wrote about the Revolution in Russia. Mine was in the Globe, and this so-called journalist, pickpocket more like, published theirs in the Evening News next day. Nicked all my quotes from my pal in Saint Petersburg,

Whilst the ‘culture wars’ may be at least partially over - it is time to rethink and rebuild teacher education for a sustainable future. Important insights here from Ian Cushing and Viv Ellis.

#openaccess #ResearchandDevelopment #AteeEJTE Does the duration of professional development programs influence effects on instruction? An analysis of 174 lessons during a national-scale program Read more tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

After supper, in the blue hour, Old Fox walked to the Sheep church up on the Downs, an old Chapel of Ease. It was dark and cool inside and completely deserted but for an elderly hare in the far corner of the front pew. He was wiping tears away. It's all so hard, he said, it’s all

Did you know there are 2 fees only scholarships available for the part time EdD programme starting in Sept at the Strathclyde Institute of Education? #StrathEdD These will be awarded at interview, you have to be in it to win it! Applications close on the 18th July. strath.ac.uk/courses/resear…

I would like to call my Papa on the telephone today, said Wolf at breakfast. Old Fox stopped buttering his toast and came to sit next to Wolf & poured him a substantial cup of cocoa with an extra couple of sugar lumps. And he explained, as he did every couple of months, that

The little Mouse's back and ears hurt & she couldn't stop shaking. It was difficult to walk, there was something wrong with her foot. The night was scathe-fire, red as hell. Her home, an empty can of Foul Mudammas, was gone. What she saw, what she heard, were ragged swords,

It was very early in the drowsy water meadows which ran through the village, across the river beyond the busy square. Lot of noisy hoppers here, said Wolf happily, who was particularly buoyant that morning, having had a good sleep and an even better breakfast. That's not the