Christina W

Think of scaffolds like a ladder. 🪜

They help students climb to independence, but they’re not meant to stay forever. Learn when to remove them for maximum impact: https://buff.ly/3Qgi5cF

Major skills x

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This is really useful, and such a timesaver for the spreadsheet-inept* amongst us.(*me)

My first BlueSky resource share! A new booklet designed to help students with considering quotations from the literature texts. As always… use/chuck/change as you see fit! @teamenglish1.bsky.social

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/eimu1...

Praise and rewards: How to get it right in schools Praise is used in schools in a multitude of ways. The psychology of praise is fascinating and confounding. Often things we praise students for are poorly thought out and can have unintended consequenc...

New blog:

On rewards and praise. How do we create a system that builds the behaviours we want in our students?

Was supposed to be short, but instead I hope it's comprehensive and useful.

#EduSky #UKed #education #cogscisci

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In the canteen, we display a rolling PPT: things that have happened in school, club timetables, news, weather etc. Great for culture! We also show things to prompt convos - dingbats, jokes, facts... I'm sharing the first 50 days here in case they are of use to anyone else! tinyurl.com/canteenICS

Hello #EduSky - as you brace yourself for the return to school, remember that Education Support is there for you no matter what you need to talk through. Call 08000 562 561 to speak to a qualified counsellor, any time of day - or term! Please make sure your team know we’re here for them too

Smudge is mellowing, for which I, and my ravaged forearms, are grateful. She's a house cat and miaows when she wants to tour the garden (on her lead). When she flops down, it's usually because she wants head scritches x

She is crackers. Very inquisitive x

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This resonates, a lot, both professionally and personally.
Looking forward to the follow ups! @priteshraichura.bsky.social

September 2024 will be the start of my 29th year teaching English, more recently also as head of department. So much has changed, some for the better, some not. Good luck to anyone starting out this year 🍀

How to do disciplinary literacy? How pupils read, write, talk, and the vocabulary they use in every classroom is specialist and unique. There are general words and literacy strategies to deploy, but as pupils move up through school, ...

‘How to do disciplinary literacy?’

“Done well, and done collaboratively, disciplinary literacy can offer pupils a set of tools to crack open the curriculum.”

alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-disc...

How do we get line management right? I want to be a better line manager. Line management meetings are essential for supporting and developing leaders and I have been thinking about how I can get it right next year. However, the more I th...

If you are line managing colleagues this year, here is my summary of the issues we face and what we can do about them...
#UKEd

www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/how-do-...

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Understanding oracy, understanding writing. Talking floats on a sea of write  ‘Writing floats on a sea of talk’ said James Britton in the 1970s.’  If you can’t say it, you can’t write it. This being the case, teaching children to write articula...

Right! That oracy blog updated with a link that actually works!

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Really looking forward to teaching KS4 again in September. Year 10 kick off with this beauty.

Our approach is underpinned by the following principles:

✅️Warm read of whole text prior to study.
✅️An enquiry-led approach to track character/themes across a text, rather than a chronological study.

PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #34 featuring the marshmallow test; Year 10 boys, and neoliberalism Two great links and one I wish was better.

One last time for this:
Friday's blog post.
PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #34 featuring the marshmallow test; Year 10 boys, and neoliberalism open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...

KS3 curriculum re-write for my new English dept. Similar to previous. I've made vocabulary ppts for Y7, Y8, Y9 for the linked vocab so we can use regularly in class. Copies in my dropbox if useful to anyone www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/rxra0...
#Edusky #UKEd @teamenglish1.bsky.social

Happy 2nd birthday to this butterfly-chasing, sofa-shredding, scritch-loving minx - miss Smudge, the real boss.

On Caturday afternoon - meet Smudge 🐈‍⬛

Yup, body scrubs are allegedly liquid too. Even though they are weighed in grammes, not ml. That was an expensive mistake I will not be repeating.

Very useful and positive messages about subject English coming out of @englishassociation.bsky.social re English A-level data analysis. ⬇️

I'd be happier with a cucumber over a snake ANY day. 🐍