Assistant Headteacher / MAT Director of English
United Kingdom
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Some reading for the holidays! A new blog.
Adaptive teaching – the four verbs approach primarytimery.com/2024/03/29…
I did not know this 😂 @MasonGurney
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Have any schools reviewed their use of Accelerated Reader based on this evaluation?
It's a five padlock trial that found no impact, yet as far as I can see it got very little attention.
educationendowmentfoundation…
Love this thread @MasonGurney . Like minded people
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"It turns out that’s Macbeth uncanny flavor springs from the unusual way that Shakespeare deploys one particular word, over and over again." @pomeranian99 on the playwright's spookiest tic: onezero.medium.com/how-data-…
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EEF study finds that children using Accelerated Reader made no additional progress. 👇🏼
Accelerated Reader agree that it’s not an intervention to teach struggling readers. 👇🏼
👉🏼 Use it if you want, but don’t imagine that it will help your struggling readers.
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Our NEW ‘Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning’ guidance report is complete with six evidence-informed recommendations to support high-quality teacher feedback.
Read / Download the full report: eef.li/feedback
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How do audiobooks impact our mental wellbeing? At our free policy webinar, we'll be discussing our research into audiobooks and looking at how we should shape our next steps with a panel of experts. Sign up now: literacytrust.org.uk/events/…
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160 secondary schools now signed up for our March judging session: AQA Eng Lang June 2019 Paper 2 Q4 (Reading). A unique chance to have your pupils' work moderated across a large group of schools. And what's more, it's free!
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Differentiation: 5 reasons why it goes wrong
marymyatt.com/blog/death-by-…
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Text as the beating heart of the lesson marymyatt.com/blog/text-as-t… – at Manhattan, NY
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‘Given the level of failure during your reign have you offered your resignation to the PM?’ - @piersmorgan
‘My one focus is making sure we deliver the best for our children.’ - Gavin Williamson
Piers says the Minister has been a catastrophe and should ‘own it’.
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The 'back to school' scandal. Millions of kids mixed unnecessarily for one day while the virus raged. Boris Johnson’s incompetence is costing lives. Sound on.
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Interesting context for A Christmas Carol and attitudes to the poor...
How Victorians saw the plight of the poor through a moral lens theguardian.com/education/20…
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Supporting reading at home - we have made several of our resources available in Polish, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, and Lithuanian.
Here, for example, is '7 Top Tips to Support Reading at Home' in Bengali.
Find them all here: eef.li/vx4q7h
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Here it is - the guidance from Ofqual about what may constitute a ‘valid’ mock exam: gov.uk/government/news/appea…
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"we are in an odd situation, whereby we have solid research evidence that disadvantaged pupils do better on tests than on teacher assessments, but the popular understanding is that exactly the reverse is true" daisychristodoulou.com/2015/… by @daisychristo
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The first prompt is formative.
The second prompt is summative.
The third prompt is developmental.
Synergies between three types of student writing.
teachlikeachampion.com/blog/…