English Teacher 👩🏽🏫 KS4 English Lead 📚 GCSE Lit and A-Level Language Examiner ✏️ and Teach First Ambassador 🌈
United Kingdom
Joined August 2019
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I am re-vamping our Paper 2 Question 5 unit in Y10. Does anyone have any resources that they’d be willing to share please 🙏🏽 😊 @Team_English1 #teamenglish #edutwitter
What a gorgeous email 🥰 This student arrived in the UK in October 2023 having not been taught a British-based education yet alone any GCSE content before and yet he achieved a 5 in both English Language and Literature! A great reminder of why I love teaching.
Does anyone please have any resources the for A Level English Language occupation (diversity) topic? Making it all from scratch having never taught it is killing me! TIA @Team_English1 #teamenglish
Sixth form open evening coming up… What fun things to do you usually do on your English Language stand?! #teamenglish #alevel #alevelenglishlanguage @Team_English1
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Let’s talk about characters as devices… 🧵
Lots of the time, character will fall into 3 groups:
- role models
- warnings
- plot devices.
Teaching students which of these they are can be really helpful when moving students to understanding that texts are constructs…
Some of these students were a couple of marks away from the next grade boundary, which is so sad given that was due to error on the examiner’s part (not a criticism as I can appreciate that in many cases it was just human error)
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I marked for AQA Language Paper 2 this year 🚂 Here’s some takeaways I took that I’ll be sharing with the English dept, so why not share with you all 🪡🧵
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Do you have to do a results analysis?
Links to useful stats & analysis from the 2023 results including:
*National data
*Boys/girls data
*Regional data
*Previous years
*Numbers of entries
*Exam board statistics
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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I noted on centre services that the mark schemes for the AQA A level physics exams are out.
Every year I sit down and answer the questions as a student would.
When the mark schemes come out I mark them honestly and see how I did.
It's great CPD.
Here's how I did... 🧵/1
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As GCSE and A-level exam results days loom, @matilda__martin reflects on the journey these cohorts have faced to reach the big day over the past four years – and asks leaders if a return to 2019 standards is fair
tes.com/magazine/analysis/se…
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Starting to plan units on Language Change and Language Discourses for AQA A-Level English Language. If anyone would be kind enough to share any resources/expertise OR point me in the right direction to helpful texts, that would be amazing! @EngLangBlog @Team_English1
In September I’m teaching A Level English Language (AQA) for the first time. Our sixth form was established this year so I’m starting from scratch. If anyone could share any resources or recommendations of books/CPD it would be greatly appreciated! @Team_English1 #teamenglish