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Everyone in schools should be aware that because teaching is an incredibly tough job to get right, teachers can easily drift into feelings of inadequacy despite doing an excellent job in relative terms. It can take an email, throw away comment, lack of appreciation, silly reg or

1/ I’m increasingly convinced: You can’t talk meaningfully about adaptive teaching without talking about checking for understanding. Let me explain why. A thread.

Your students shouldn’t know your politics. Teachers are in a position of authority and influence. The school curriculum should be the map of your lessons and intentions.

Gary Neville on the most successful English club: “The painful thing to say, unfortunately, is that the debate is over.” 😏

And that’s what we call… cyclical structure 🔥

AQA GCSE English Literature predictions… An Inspector Calls seems the easiest to predict each year… I’ve given up on kingship in Macbeth… Team English

About to start my victory lap for predicting both Macbeth and A Christmas Carol questions for AQA GCSE Literature Paper 1… I’ve been predicting kindness for A Christmas Carol for three years! 😂

If a classroom is so noisy that a student needs to wear noise-cancelling headphones just to cope, that environment is not inclusive. Creating a calm and quiet classroom where all students can be present and comfortable, without needing to block out the noise, is what genuine

Launched a Sparx Reader competition with Year 10 students with their GCSE Easy Readers and Original Texts… 3 students have already completed ALL 4 texts within a week of launch, with 6 more students who’ve completed 1 or more. WOW! 1. Macbeth Easy Reader 2. A Christmas Carol

A meta-study of 54 studies and 170,000+ people found that: People remember more information if they read a physical book instead of a digital one. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Looks like paper beats pixel.

Hi all, Team English Looking for ideas on how other English departments structure the order of their AQA GCSE English Lit content across Y10 and Y11. A Christmas Carol An Inspector Calls Macbeth Power+Conflict Unseen poetry. We have a 2-2 split for Literature and Language

Zach Groshell Yep. This is what the best schools in the UK do. Whole class feedback based on astute ongoing observation of what students are showing us. We obviously address individual issues with students, but I prefer to do that live during an independent…

Qamar Shafiq Team English Autumn Term 1 - ACC / some poems / creative writing Term 2 - Lang P2 and poems Term 3 - Animal Farm and Lang P1 reading Y11 Term 1 - Macbeth and revisit P2 Lang and ACC Term 2 - unseen poetry and revisit Lang P1, AF and poetry

In one academic year, our school moved from 26th in the county to 5th for overall attendance. Whole-school attendance has increased by 4.5% and is now above the national average. Our SEND attendance increased by 8.5%. Here’s how we did it and fast… open.substack.com/pub/lynseywhit…

A quick summary on how to teach and embed grammar from DfE’s new Writing Framework… gov.uk/government/pub…

Happening now in Tel Aviv: we march with the pictures of the children in Gaza who were starved to death by our government and our army. We cannot accept it. We call people to refuse the starvation, to refuse the killing, to refuse the annihilation.