Richard Elam

"Daddy!! I do your work!"

Sure mate, after staring at the screen all day, you'll probably do a better job answering these NPQ questions anyway.

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I used to be quite an ordinary chap, who had a quite ordinary brain;

But now with a toddler, endlessly I'm forced, to read Zog again and again...

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My mind works in rhyme, the whole utter time, it really is unfortunate luck;

Desperate, I implore, these books I adore, but Gruffalo please, off you..

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Now Donaldson's sweet, her books are a treat and I'm glad the little one does read;

But please I do beg cos, I fear and I dread I now have a terrible need...

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I used to be quite an ordinary chap, who had a quite ordinary brain;

But now with a toddler, endlessly I'm forced, to read Zog again and again...

That's just the easy question. We need to then consider...

Does X improve learning *here*?

Does X improve learning with *our* pupils?

Does X improve learning for *all* out pupils?

Does X improve learning for *every* teacher?

Does X improve learning *all*
the time?

And so many more...

Saw this and chuckled; then thought...

The World Cup lasts 4 weeks.

Fathers in the UK get 2 weeks of statutory leave.

So the situation in the UK is that a football tournament lasts longer than the time a dad is given to bond with his newborn child and support his family.

I'm still struck, by a documentary on Norwegian prisons I saw a while back.

The whole system's focus was on successful reintegration.

I'm paraphrasing but one governor said something like, "Who cares how long someone spends here if, after we've worked with them, they don't commit any more crimes?"

Down in Rock, Cornwall. This was Daymer Bay yesterday.

Not quite as relaxing with a two-year old, but equally as revitalising. 😍

Gorgeous, isn't it? One of my favourite places.

Having just returned from central France I'm definitely a victim of recency bias, but I don't care.

I'm asking for a glass of Sancerre and some Loire Valley goat's cheese.

@teachertapp.bsky.social I'd love to know the difference being a parent makes to this.

My answer is *very* different now to what it would have been before the little terror arrived on the scene.

❤️

I found a (very) old cassette tape with my name on it in a drawer at my mum's house a few months ago and when I played it, it was me as a baby.

My dad had recorded me, a few months old, just giggling and babbling away for about 20 mins.

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The biggest killer of young people in the UK... suicide.

I'm entering the Great North Run to raise funds for PAPYRUS, helping them to prevent suicides in young people and promote positive mental health.

All & any donations gratefully received.

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PAPYRUS, like all charities I guess, are the expert help you hope you never need, but their support has proved invaluable in the past to my colleagues.

Please, please help them be able to offer support when it is desperately needed in the future.

Richard's page About us 60,000 determined and dedicated runners make the AJ Bell Great North Run the World’s biggest and best half marathon – famous for its warm North East welcome, unbeatable atmosphere and the mil

The biggest killer of young people in the UK... suicide.

I'm entering the Great North Run to raise funds for PAPYRUS, helping them to prevent suicides in young people and promote positive mental health.

All & any donations gratefully received.

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I believe in training he got the takers to tell the keeper where they were going to shoot.

The rationale being, they still scored and so in crunch moments the players knew that if they did "their bit" right, the goalkeeper was irrelevant.

Ahhh... a follower of the "Wenger Method".

If you kick the ball, hard and where you want it to go, the keeper can't get there.

Sod cognitive load theory, pedagogical know how, Vygotsky, Piaget, and Maslow.

This.

The ability to detach your expressions from your emotions is the essential element in any teacher's armoury.

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Ouch... You're just a couple of hundred kilometres south of us.

Good luck.

Pasty faced Northerner who usually holidays in the Highlands Of Scotland asking for help!

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"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.

EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.

Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

I don't think the French hold much regard for Spanish wine.

At £1.20 a bottle, I'm prepared to take one for the team.

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@teachertapp.bsky.social

Does it count that two girls in a previous class were cousins with identical twin mothers... and no one had told me!!!

Cut to five mins into parents evening and, "I'm glad my niece is doing so well, but how's my daughter doing?"

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No, where's your head at?

First hill session for a couple of years.

My legs now hate me.

"Teach a lesson"

But where @teachertapp.bsky.social?

Very different asking an applicant to teach a random lesson to an unknown class compared to visiting them in their own school, teaching their class.