Gemma Molyneux

Had a fab chat with @elementcoaching.bsky.social this morning. Was great to meet (finally) and talk all things English, mentoring and ITTECF. Got a page of notes and ideas to follow up on #TeamEnglish

Hello - would love to be added

I'm hunting down every last one of you lovely ITE / ITT folk. I'm mainly relying on people's bios to determine who might want to be included here, so if I've missed you, let me know and I will update this list.

Reposts appreciated 👍

go.bsky.app/FZXkStn

Maternity leave improvements alone don't fully support women Improving schools' maternity offer may help retention in the short term - but a key ingredient is missing

"In heterosexual couples, when men take an extended period of leave in the first year of their child’s life, it is good for women’s careers. It’s also good for the outcomes of the child, for the parents’ relationship & for men’s wellbeing." Emma Sheppard schoolsweek.co.uk/parental-lea...

Disciplinary literacy: 50 years of failure Every maths teacher recognises the language of their subject is unique. Each teacher of history recognises that they teach pupils reading and writing moves that are different to maths teachers. Primar...

🚨 NEW POST 🚨

‘Disciplinary Literacy: 50 Years of Failure’

“Various curriculum updates over the last 50 years have paid too little heed to the difficulty of mediating the complex reading, writing, & talk moves undertaken in the different disciplines.”

alexquigley.co.uk/disciplinary...

Anyone going to The Great Oracy Exhibition next week? #edusky

The Advice Trap is a good baseline book to start with.

So good to see this kind of blog! In 2015, when EMC set up an unfunded research project, 'It's Good to Talk', there was a lot of negativity about talk, despite the fact that any teachers who saw the findings & classroom filming were v enthusiastic. I'm delighted that the climate has now changed. 1

A very aesthetically pleasing learning journey template -fully editable below 👇 #edubsky

Amen. The idea that school should teach adult life admin is the bleakest, drabbest view of education

Who's interested? Let's see what the numbers would look like? Can't keep research out of God's own country

Yes! 🙌🏽

That’s exciting! I’m in the NE, let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.

Ofsted’s Big Listen response: all you need to know Schools can expect a new inspection framework and more scrutiny over how inclusive they are, as part of an Ofsted ‘evolution’ announced today

Breaking: #Ofsted has revealed its response to the Big Listen consultation, with proposed inspection reforms including:

🔸 A new inspection framework
🔸 A new focus on inclusion
🔸 A Monday-only school notification policy

Here's everything you need to know… (1/3)

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Smart casual:
Men:
Polo shirt and jeans.
Polo shirt and chinos
Avoid: 90s clubwear buckled shoe and a Ben Sherman.
Women:
Jeans, top and unstructured blazer vibes (pretty much an endless list of anything really)
Hope that helps!

ITE WELL BEING Teacher recruitment, retention and well-being are ongoing issues in Europe and internationally. Well-being and stress-related issues relating to student teachers are not well researched, possibly...

Training to teach in 2024/25? Student teachers, teacher educators and mentors… we made a toolkit for student teacher well-being which is open access and free - itewellbeing.org - in English, Danish and Finnish. Please pass on!

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Enrichment Course Members: YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
Gemma and I have been working on ways to make your wraparound support for this course even better. Today you have received the first instalment of a new Enrichment newsletter - this one is centred on ORACY in the English classroom 🙌 #EduSky #EnglishCPD

Early Career Teacher & Initial Teacher Training Confidence in Managing Behaviour Survey Web survey powered by SurveyMonkey.com. Create your own online survey now with SurveyMonkey's expert certified FREE templates.

Can those in the #mentoring thread for ECT and those in initial training share this survey with those that it is relevant to. It’s exploring #ECT and those in #ITT experience of support & training relating to behaviour
www.surveymonkey.com/r/ECT