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Hobby craft has been emailing parents with free ideas their child could make for their teachers. Seems a nice idea. Let's dig into it. 1/6

👀 Today’s thought provoking #sundaypoll👀 CLT is complex and difficult, even in a lab and for those who study it full time. Are teachers actually using CLT in their teaching or are they just using the language of CLT? RT, ❤️ and comments all welcome.

Tomorrow it's #iforgotday (apparently 🤷🏼‍♀️) - any horror stories, tiny tales, forgetful fables? Child in a car park.. 😬😬 . Bear in mind I may share on the radio....😱.... -> Suffolk Sound Radio

Wow: also just seen this in a press release from the NAHT: United Learning "has backed down" on its controversial pensions plan: schoolsweek.co.uk/mat-backtracks…

Let’s call them, I don’t know, something like, ‘advanced teacher’?

Dr James Shea Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation Yes, I think needs to be referred back to the work of Hirsch, as championed of course by Nick Gibb. Increasingly I think it's important to talk about these reforms/approaches as conservative, rather than "traditionalist," as it makes clearer what has happened.

The acceleration in the demise of English as a subject can be traced directly back to when Dominic Cummings said he detested English graduates. Gove duly obliged.

Dr James Shea If any one thing should be prioritised in the curriculum review, it’s sorting out English.

👀Teachers told to improve their handwriting👀 New Writing Framework takes aim at teachers' handwriting in push for higher standards. Isolated grammar teaching and prepping for tests also panned in this framework which clearly sees SATS as unhelpful. tes.com/magazine/news/…

sara h 🇪🇺 Phil McCahill Dr James Shea The one skill we don't teach that would prepare for modern life ..touch typing... It's a bizarre omission.

👀Teach First to be wholly restructured in name and mission as part of new contract for teacher education👀 Government responds to long term criticism and orders Teach First to be rebranded with new central value imposed - ‘teach always’ not teach first, as part of a funding

👀Today’s thought provoking #sundaypoll👀👀 Are extreme zero tolerance school policies disproportionately aimed at controlling the boys who they think can't self-regulate, leading to negative impacts like increased school avoidance for girls and SEND pupils?

Dr James Shea I wonder if period poverty is also a factor

Horror stories of support plans back in the news. NASUWT’s survey suggests staff with a disability are more than twice as likely to be threatened with a support plan or put on one. Meanwhile, black teachers are almost three times as likely as white staff to be threatened with

Basic hearts and minds. Say you will stop inspecting in the last week of the year. Things like this make the profession see Ofsted as uncaring and vindictive.

HERE WE GO. Is my favourite new viral expression of the year.

Teachers, tell me one of your favourite teacher stories to tell.

Dr James Shea I had a pupil who was in set 4 combined who was consistently getting a 2 in his assessments. He has ASD and hated science and just couldn't see himself doing A Levels. He was clever but never saw how interesting science was and I knew he could do it.