Gordon Baillie @AfLPie

Getting used to saying Senior Lecturer in Education practice (former AP for L&T/CPD & Literacy/Numeracy/Hmwk (formerly AST). English teacher(sometime trainer). creativeteachersupport.wordpress.com North West UK (Chester) Joined August 2012

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

3 months ago

This thread is spot on. And when people say science or geography 'vocabulary' has to be taught, it bothers me. Surely teaching 'photosynthesis' or 'erosion' is more than the word? It's the whole idea. The subject content. The subject. Calling it 'vocab' is back to front!

Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak

3 months ago

We keep saying students lack background knowledge. Yes. That’s the point of teaching.

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

8 months ago

But not for secondary English teachers. It’s a core subject - a key subject. Schools already have a shortage of subject specialist English teachers. But with no bursary at all, potentially great English teachers will be unable to train. So shortsighted!

Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer

8 months ago

Teachers change children’s lives every single day. Today, we're announcing new bursaries and scholarships to support talented people to become brilliant teachers. Inspiring the next generation and boosting opportunity across the country.

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GCSE MACBETH @GCSE_Macbeth

8 months ago

A simple thing that worked well today. Gave Year 9 a vocab list of "complex emotions" -- powerlessness, resentment, exhaustion etc -- and asked them to apply to characters in the text. Instant improvement in the quality of insights into character.

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

9 months ago

A terrific piece by @RebeccaLeek_ about bringing learning to life for children by making connections with their own worlds & lives, harnessing this to teach new ideas & knowledge (with some great comments on the value of poetry!) Thanks too for sharing the link to a poem of mine!

Rebecca Leek @RebeccaLeek_

9 months ago

Where I talk about meaningful curriculum design, oranges, lych gates, @IpswichTown and poetry. And mention @TheDirigible plus poems from Laura Theis, @BarbaraBleiman, Angela Marinelli and @MartinElster. It's got everything! theteachco.com/uploads/specia… P.64... ⛪🍊☁️ 🗺️ @TheTeachCo

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

10 months ago

We continue to bemoan 1/3 students graded below 4 in Eng Lang when a. grade boundaries are set for that approx proportion b. Eng Lang GCSE is a poor exam that doesn't test competence in use of lang in a meaningful way c. marking is erratic, so the results aren't even reliable.

Dr James Shea @englishspecial

10 months ago

33% of GCSEs not graded at level 4 or above. Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s the system not the schools, teachers or kids.

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

11 months ago

Well that was fun! (Fun & hard work - not dichotomous or incompatible.) I had everyone doing a few bits of writing, including being required to use a sentence type in a response, to see the impact on cognitive load, their thinking about the text, quality of what was written etc.

Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

11 months ago

Looking forward to a training day for ourselves at @EngMediaCentre today with this year's superb Associate Teachers, plus the newly appointed ones & EMC colleagues. I'm doing a session on 'Big Picture Writing' – even more relevant in light of the new Writing Framework doc.

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Christopher Such @Suchmo83

a year ago

Excellent thread. ⬇️

Tom Sherrington @teacherhead

a year ago

Going to blog but here’s a 🧵 There are too many distractions from the sustained hard work needed to deliver and maintain effective PD programmes that lead to improved teaching and improved outcomes. And I worry that just as we’re making progress, more distractions are coming

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Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK

a year ago

🐝 English teachers! 🐝 Check out this free CPD from the British Library! eventbrite.co.uk/e/macbeth-in-c…

British Library Learning @BL_Learning

a year ago

English teachers! Bookings are open for our next free online CPD - exploring Macbeth in context on 25 June. Join Professor Emma Smith, & teacher and author @MichaelDonkor for fresh perspectives, tips & resources. We'll delve into ideas of agency & blame. eventbrite.co.uk/e/131889900542…

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Gordon Baillie @AfLPie

a year ago

Agreed. However, this is far too often compromised at the point of recruitment. This, along with off the shelf schemes of work, then continually perpetuates the problem.

Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

a year ago

The debate around subject knowledge and pedagogy for teacher efficacy mirrors the debate around student subject knowledge and transferable skills like creativity. You cannot be an effective teacher, no matter how good your pedagogy, if you don’t know what to teach; what to

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Daryn Egan-Simon @darynsimon

a year ago

‘Society, children and young people, and teachers would benefit from a turn towards a more compassionate, compelling and irresistible profession.’ Absolutely, this.

Jan Rowe @Janroweljmu

a year ago

Miss this voice. Always worth listening to. Ready for a new turn in teacher education? | BERA bera.ac.uk/blog/ready-for…

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Christopher Such @Suchmo83

a year ago

Up to 8,000 views now. If you want a short introduction to the science of reading and related principles for teaching, this 9-minute video offers precisely that. ⬇️

Christopher Such @Suchmo83

2 years ago

Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. The Reading Map - A Primer youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?si… via @YouTube

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Melissa Benn @Melissa_Benn

a year ago

Agreed! Happy birthday - a day late - to a great father and a courageous man.

Leo Hollis @leohollis

2 years ago

These words from Tony Benn are so depressingly accurate

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Rob Chambers @RobGeog

a year ago

"You can't join the dots if you don't have any dots.." - thoroughly enjoyed the excellent webinar on "9 principles of Retrieval Practice" by @C_Hendrick and @HughesHaili on Thursday.

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

a year ago

I totally agree with this. The consensus seems to have somewhat broken down. I see things where I think ‘now that’s really great English teaching’ and others where I have very significant concerns. Both are being viewed as ‘great teaching’ by some, yet they are utterly different.

Leo Hollis @leohollis

2 years ago

These words from Tony Benn are so depressingly accurate

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

a year ago

For me, classroom approaches need to leave space for students to ask questions, raise uncertainties, add knowledge of their own - knowledge 'made' as well as received. There need to be pauses, time built in for 'But what if...?' 'I didn't get that', 'So does that mean...?' 1/

Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

a year ago

If you're looking at different pedagogic choices, seeing videoclips on social media, or descriptions of classroom practices & routines, I think it's always worth considering whether what you see works equally well for different ages, subjects, topics or aspects of subjects. 1/

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Gordon Baillie @AfLPie

a year ago

@mathillustrated I'm kicking myself that I got drawn into it to be honest...

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Gordon Baillie @AfLPie

a year ago

@adamboxer1 They have to be research informed but respond to the needs of the class, in the school at the point in the curriculum they are at. The incessant irritation with the process of learning to teach is ridiculous when it is as uninformed as this

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Gordon Baillie @AfLPie

a year ago

@adamboxer1 What an incredibly narrow conception of the phrase "learning to teach". You seem to conceptualise the process as simply transactional where if they have broad knowledge, they can be more critical and analytical. What they should have is the space to do both of these things

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Gordon Baillie @AfLPie

a year ago

@adamboxer1 Ah, the informed discourse of Twitter. I just did a lecture to a PGCE cohort about a practitioner enquiry they will carry out in their classrooms over the next two to three months. It requires them to be immersed in the curriculum of their subject whilst identifying issues

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman

a year ago

An absolutely fabulous blog! Exactly 'what matters' in English teaching. Worth every single English teacher (and every single member of every single SLT) reading this to understand what literary study is all about.