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Phil Beadle

1 month

So, it looks like I will be heading for my seventh tour of duty in Aus in late July as I've had a date confirmed in Sydney talking about behaviour. If anyone needs any help ...

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

There it is, right on cue, same as every year: the dream that I can't teach for shit, haven't marked their work for weeks and can't control the behaviour at all. Never misses a year - always horrid.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 years

I've read three edu books in the last week and my conclusion is ... there's quite a few people who don't appear to have imposter syndrome who might want to consider it.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

Here is my take on authoritarian behaviour management techniques, specifically SLANT, for anyone who should care to read it:

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

So, this is the first time I've taken 10s into 11 for 16 years, and I'd forgotten the profound depth of trust you obtain in that second year together. I am loving teaching at the moment - twenty-five years after I started - and don't want it to end.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 months

I've worked in one of the schools at the top of this list. Students were exhausted as they did nothing but go to school (seven days a week). They felt that they were being subjected to completely inhuman treatment. I agreed with them. Results are not just academic.

Robert Colvile

@rcolvile

6 months

My colleague @lehain is tweeting the details but today's provisional Progress 8 scores represent an absolute triumph for @michaelgove , @Miss_Snuffy , @MerciaSchool et al - and for @StarAcademies too. These are now the best schools in the country, in some of the toughest places.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 months

Pressed send on 'Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Teach Like a Totalitarian' this week. It' gone to publishers. Expect a nuclear explosion at Easter. It's time the abuse of children to serve the pockets of grifters is revealed for what it is. Any professors who wanna help DM me.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Jeez, on-line teaching talk a lot of planning. It makes you realise how much you rely on humour, busking, relationships, getting things mostly right and being tcharismatic in lessons. It's also more angsty in delivery. And more sressful. Not overly keen.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

11 months

Head of Ofsted - sum total of lessons taught: 0. sum total of ability to properly empathise with the stresses that inspections put humans through: 0.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

10 months

This is an excellent article by an actual teacher:

If you think absent pupils are skiving, just try spending a day in a school | Nadeine Asbali

Children are struggling, resources are being cut and teachers are burning out. Yet politicians blame everyone but themselves, says Nadeine Asbali

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Marking Year 11 creative writing. "It was all a dream" apparently. "NO. NO. NOT. It was NOT all a dream. NO it wasn't. You are not five and I am not well trained enough to be an early years teacher." NOT, NOT, NOT, NEVER."

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 years

Just did KS2 SPAG test with son as prep for tomorrow. I got five wrong. I write books on this kind of stuff. IT'S TOO HARD for 11 year olds.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

This is what is happening on the ground:

Class sizes in England could go up to 60 warn heads in funding pay row

Headteachers say they will be forced to double class sizes and introduce four-day weeks to tackle underfunding

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

I am somewhat surprised to find after two weeks in my new job on an estate in the south Midlands that I really like teaching children English. I've had more buzz in my teaching this week than I've had in fifteen years. You just got to find the right environment it seems.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

This is the kind of pitiful nationalistic horse-shit that I have so enjoyed decimating and satirising today in the new book that I am writing. Whatever you may think of the writing of her speech, it was delivered with all the panache and subtlety of an unemployable repertory ham.

National Conservatism

@NatConTalk

1 year

How much do you love your country? Enough to tweet under your own name? To change your child's school to one that is less woke? To do more than chat to your friends who already agree with you at dinner parties? For heaven's sake, man, stand up and be counted. - @Miss_Snuffy

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

So, my book, Pedagogy of the Oppressor, was turned down by a fourth publisher today, and it looks like it's either self publishing or being published by the radical left press. It transpires standing up to educational totalitarianism is not as easy as one might have imagined.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 months

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I have ever read from someone I count myself lucky to regard as a friend. Read it. It is astonishing:

‘Gloom is good’: after my wife died I found solace in poetry and music

You can’t fight death, sickness, ageing and life’s various indignities, but you can play very loud rock’n’roll

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

First time I've been told I'm a "s*** teacher" since my NQT year today. FINALLY, a student has rumbled me for the terrible charlatan I obviously am.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 years

Had anyone asked me what my dream job would be, I might have replied, "Working on a fairly long term project on the Isle of Wight with a view to systematically addressing every barrier to white working class kids' engagement with school." Careful what you wish for now.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 years

So ... it's up early to travel to Lincoln in order to pick up an honorary doctorate for, get this, 'services to teaching'. A polite good morning to traditionalists.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

Power does not like being challenged. They will come for you in any way it can be mustered. Challenge it anyway. I speak for children's rights and will continue no matter how much people would prefer me to be silent.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 years

I am not the target audience for Stormzy's music, but I love that young man's politics. He's just set up a Stormzy scholarship to pay promising young black students' tuition fees. Top man.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Here is the cover of my new book that I will have finished writing in 13 days' time. It is not a masterpiece, but it may be the best thing I have ever written.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 months

'Pedagogy of the Oppressor' took a year to write and research (it is heavily researched). It has had teething problems with the legals, but it will come out. It is a detailed analysis of current pedagogical fashions by someone who has a fairly reasonable claim to expertise.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 months

This is ridiculous. It's time this totalitarian, anti intellectual garbage is thrown in the dumper. Rise up people.

NASUWT Letter to Parents – 05.11.2023

Thank you all for your continued and very valued support. This is a joint battle for the future success of St Ivo School and both the staff and students will benefit if we succeed in persuading Ast…

stivoparentsforum.org

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

I'm absolutely peed off with the number of teachers posting stuff with the word 'metacognition' attached who understand not the first thing. It's seriously complicated. I've been working on a book for 5 years, have read 100s of academic papers and am about half way through it.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 months

I agree with Simon here: We are in a new dark ages:

England’s secondary schools are Dickensian. No wonder children are staying away | Simon Jenkins

Gillian Keegan’s war on truancy should start with a little self-reflection, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Turns out lovely school with lovely colleagues and lovely students could afford to have me back, so up at 4.00am on Tuesdays again. First time I've taken tens into year eleven since 2005. Now for some proper results.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

I love teaching at this school so much that I forgot I am not 35 anymore and taught like a young man. I can't actually walk now. Saw year 10 girl outside school with her mum. "That's OUR teacher, mum". To work with such kids at this age is gravy.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 years

Apropos of nothing, my school inherited a student six weeks ago from a school that's pretty big on being warm/strict and knowledge rich. She was surprised and delighted to have her book marked every day. I asked what her old school was like. 'They don't care' said she.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Having sworn off teaching in May, thinking I could live off consultancy, I find myself up at 5.00 preparing for a meeting with last year's head teacher ready to start again helping out next half term. Bugger.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 month

Teaching is not control. It is its opposite. Anyone who knows anything real about it from the inside understands this. There are base techniques the base might use to control but, really, they're steps a novice dancer might practice. Why have we reduced our art form to a basic?

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

My brother is a reprobate. He is not on social media and only one follower of mine would recognise him. He has coronavirus. His reaction, "'S alright bruv, I've got a huge bag of weed and 24 stellas." Heaven help him.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Son got three 'A's at 'A' Level. However, my heart goes out to parents and children from poorer communities who have been stiffed. I pointed out to him he is the first Beadle ever to go to a redbrick before realising he is only the second of our clan to go to Uni.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

Wrote this yesterday. Published today. A class based analysis of what goes on in schools is overdue. This may not be it, and there's a weird sentence in it. But ...

Morning Star

@M_Star_Online

1 year

Award-winning teacher PHIL BEADLE argues that the way the most authoritarian moves in education — like the strange practice of 'silent corridors' — are mainly inflicted on working-class pupils, has echoes of fascism

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

It transpires that I'm actually not "a shit teacher" and my student yesterday had judged it a tad too early. Happens, innit.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I am 55 years of age today and, let me tell you people, the comb-over is looking SWISH!

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

The level of dishonesty in the question here shows where the profession is intellectually. The conflation of the two things is almost Johnsonian in its mendacious stupidity.

Richard Perring

@LearningMaths

1 year

I’m amazed by this result (again!) When it was raised on Twitter I wondered if there was an ‘age’ thing where more experienced teachers were more used to autonomy. Are @teachertapp able to break down responses by ‘years in the classroom’?

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Tomorrow, I rise at 4am for maybe the last 2 days at one of the nicest schools I've ever worked at: funding may not be there next year. When you're ancient and you finish a job, you think it'll be the last time you'll ever teach. Hope not. I've enjoyed teaching English this year.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Day 1 in the plague house. Son has covid. Not allowed to leave house for 14 days. Lots of books to be read.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Just asked my class why 'name of student' wasn't attending on-line sessions expecting to hear tales of woe. "He don't like learning, Sir" was the response.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Wondering why people write 'all my opinions my own' on their twitter profile as mine are mostly rehashed versions of stuff I read somewhere years ago.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

In a half hour I leave for Birmingham to talk about managing v challenging behaviour and emotional regulation. I have never been so excited to go to work: first time in nearly six months.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Bittersweet experience today: I've been booked for a webinar in Geelong in Aus in Jan as a substitute for Sir Ken Robinson who was going to do the gig. This is humbling.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

This beggars belief. Look at the iconography and see if it doesn't remind you of something.

Mouhssin Ismail

@Mouhssin_Ismail

5 months

It’s seriously impressive when you can hear a pin drop during a school’s silent line ups & transitions. Students moving with pace & purpose in a safe & controlled manner, pausing only to greet their teachers with ‘Good Morning/Afternoon Miss/Sir.’

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 months

I have returned from walking around the building with a clipboard. I visited a colleague's lesson. The behaviour management was unacceptably lax: there was an atmosphere of relaxed laughter. It was inefficient and sub-optimal. There were whole seconds wasted. I upbraided him.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I am now 34,000 words through 'Metacognition for Morons' and have, at long last, finally written a line that is so funny I have been crying with laughter for the last five minutes. I am killing me.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

10 months

So, something good has happened (about time). I've just found out I am returning to Sir Herbert Leon school in September. It's my favourite ever school (in England) with some of my favourite ever colleagues, and I am overjoyed.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

I haven't read this, and I'm not going to as the views of someone who taught for one year are not useful for someone who has been in classrooms for twenty seven years, but it exists.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

I have had a peaceful day today. I had forgotten what peace is like. I have Bill Callahan on and a decent bottle of shiraz. I will go to bed early as I always do. I am sorry if I worried or upset anyone. Life has been traumatic for a long while.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Teaching young people English for the first time in exactly six months this morning. Back to "Shit, where's my board marker!"

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

The New York Times are coming into school to see me teach this morning. I wonder if they will think I'm any good at it.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

Weirdly, and I might be wrong, someone with a large following who does not teach seems to be inferring that I don't teach either. This is good news for me as I get the day off tomorrow; it's perhaps less good news for my students who will be looking at an empty space.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

Good on 'em:

St Ivo Academy staff to strike over 'draconian' school policy

A union says pupils are told to be silent in corridors and the school has a 1950s behaviour policy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I breached 45,000 words of the cultural capital book this morning. Pierre Bourdieu, though difficult, is mind-blowing.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 years

New blog on the impossibility of lesson planning:

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

My son will be studying A level music next year. A shame he will not be allowed to study the complex musical shapes and forms of black British creativity at its best. There's only one valid form of cultural capital, apparently:

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

This, from a football player, is a masterful piece of writing. Any teacher of English seeking to get kids through paper 2, question 5 could do worse than analyse the elegance of Jorge Valdano's prose in this piece about Maradona:

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 years

Edutwitter has become a forum for idea-free, right-wing populists to laugh publicly at anything more complex than a piece of damp white card and, then, to anticipate applause for having done so. Bravo. Enjoy belonging.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

@RDayysj 56 and a half, as good, if not better, as/than I ever was and loving it more than ever (though the state of me on returning home involves a lot of Netflix, a lot of "Oooo me back" and substantial-to-the-point-of-grandiose servings of whiskey and wine).

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

10 months

This is my latest article for The Morning Star about a fantastic project in Bristol run by three heroes which is reducing reoffending rates to zero. Heroes exist.

Retraining not reoffending

PHIL BEADLE speaks to former prisoners who found a new start in life thanks to an innovative programme in the prison gym

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

Mimed sucking an ice lolly in class today. I, sure as hell, won't be doing that again. It took quite a while to get them back from their collapse into hilarity.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

If I spend the whole of lockdown reading Bourdieu and Gramsci, while smoking roll ups and drinking black coffee, will I qualify as an intellectual come September? Or will I need a black roll-neck as well?

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Off to University of Bucks for the fifth year running chatting to new teachers about how to manage behaviour without needing to be authoritarian.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

Found out from son, he is the ONLY one of his friendship group whose grades have not been altered downwards. These are hard working kids at a challenging school. They do not deserve this treatment. Pontius Pilate washes his hands.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 months

Thanks to the University of Bucks Education Dept., I am in the best shape I've been in for a while: decent food with pudding, proper sleep in a bed. I feel properly human for the first time in ages.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 years

I don't know why I bother with twitter. Every time I log on it's the same boring people repeating themselves. I don't know why I bother with twitter. Every time I log on it's the same boring people repeating themselves.I don't know why I bother ...

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

@Ofstednews It is possible to fake empathy, but it remains fake empathy. 'Sad death' is an example of the drab perversion of language specialised in by people who should never be anywhere near a profession for which the chief qualification should be the ability to empathise.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

I've seen this quote. My favourite bit is the swearing.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Just tried to logon to the TES and forgot I had been banned for impersonating myself.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

FFS.

Warwick Mansell

@warwickmansell

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“We appreciate that the weather is cold at the moment and if students choose to wear warmer clothes on the way to school, we ask that they remove them once school starts in time for line up [for uniform inspection in the playground].”

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

Today's rejection of Pedagogy of the Oppressor, which I spent a year writing, describes it in the following manner "superbly written and I have no doubt that it would sell incredibly well and generate lots of debate." But, still, they can't publish it. Too hot to handle?

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 years

Just witnessed one of the mourners outside the palace: "The beauty of it is that it's not political". Words fail me. Somewhat bored of daily reminders of my own serfdom and of working class royalists not understanding the baked in irony of their position.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

Out for a curry in Bradford with Tait Coles tonight: two left wing pseudo intellectuals slagging off totalitarian know-nothings and discussing critical pedagogy on a night out. Only one of us has a genuinely convincing quiff. It's not me.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

The old man is back. Too thin (we can do something about that) but firing on every cylinder before an audience of four hundred nice teacher peoples.

Megan

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Truly one of the most awe inspiring speeches I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing. Thank you @PhilBeadle for your entertaining delivery and powerful message.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 years

This, from @HeyMissSmith , is an outstanding piece of writing.

Factory-farmed teachers will fail our children

The new-look training courses are trying to turn out fully-formed teachers in a matter of weeks, when what they need is time to think and support as they develop

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

@HughesHaili The key Haili is not not give a fuck about what other people think of you and to focus on your own performance. You are the only person whose opinion of yourself matters at this stage of your career.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 years

God help me, I've written another blog. Pedagogy is political.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 years

An incredible week. Had both @schooltruth and @lecarso visit the school and wow the school's year 11s, genuinely interesting visit to a state boarding school yesterday and returned home to find I've been awarded an honorary doctorate for 'services to pedagogy'. Liverpool today.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

2 years

I'm off to Australia in the new year for my 5th tour of duty there. Weirdly, I keep getting invited back. I wonder if it's because I work respectfully WITH organisations to build on work they are already doing, rather than shouting my mouth off that other professionals are crap.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I'm doing a deep dive behaviour session on emotional self regulation here. This isn't the kind of session for first timers who want to know a bit about routines and shit. It's more for expert practitioners that want to add to their perspectives & armoury.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I have to say, I am well pleased with this. About f***ing time. The vile stereotypes in this programme belong where they should have been buried - in the 1970s.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

I am the only person in the house that hates Eurovision. It is the night of the year where I am sent to 'Phil's grumpy room' while all others celebrate camp inanity. I quite like dampness and inanity, but Eurovision has always disappointed me on a song craft basis.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I'm having to do a weird thing that I haven't done since 1997: apply for a teaching job! Where do I find my DFES reference number?

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 months

There's a God's own country feel to Yorkshire that I finally get having seen it in late Autumn. Stormed an INSET gig this morning with an absolutely lovely bunch of socialists at a school in Huddersfield with a funny name and properly happy to be alive. Life after ...

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

9 months

This is excellent from Lola:

I’m a teacher – and I see through Tory scare stories on the ‘ghost children’ missing from school |...

Their focus on crime and the school attendance crisis is a shameful attempt to deflect the blame from austerity, says teacher Lola Okolosie

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

7 months

This is one of my better pieces of writing. After a year away, I am now back teaching on the same estate four days a week. It is a privilege and a joy:

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

7 years

On English Departments, Magic and Loss:

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

7 years

Photo of my book in that Tate Modern bookshop. Teaching is art?

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

7 years

Marking Ozymandias work. Student has quoted and analysed the line, "look on my worms, ye mighty and despair."

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Here is a blog on grammar teaching, by me, not very funny.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

@shes_saturn @ofqual Ayni, it's of no comfort whatsoever, but working class kids of your quality and ability will eventually find a way. But tuck a little bit of hate into your heart for those who have done this to you and never forget it. I am sobbing for you.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

7 months

I was on a bill with @miss_mcinerney today. She was seriously good. It was the second time in 20 years, I've thought, "Ulp. I have to follow that!"

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

4 years

I did three tweets today. This is my fourth one. I am finally getting to understand why people like this medium as it is a chance to waste other people's time reading things that have absolutely no substance - just like this tweet you're reading now.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

6 years

I wrote this a decade ago. It was labelled as ignorant. I think it might be but am not sure.

Phil Beadle on the demise of the whiteboard

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

On learning poetry by rote, I suppose it saves you from having to do the technical and intellectual work required to understand it.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

11 months

If it cannot have enough self awareness to realise huge, cultural change has to take place, then disband it and go back to the drawing board. Ofsted is a political organisation.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

5 years

I've had a thought (it happens occasionally) that none of the Tory front bench would make it into the top set of the (somewhat struggling) school I work in. The kids would intellectually assassinate them.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

1 year

@KateJones_teach Kate, having done this work for 20 years, the ugly lesson is, and always applies, if you do someone a favour, it'll blow up in your face. For some reason, if you aren't being paid, some people won't value your efforts or kindness. I no longer do unpaid work. Also, shame on them.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

3 years

Somewhat unbelievably, the album my friends and I made on the days I am not teaching is now in the top 100 and is number 17 in the indie charts.

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

8 months

There is much to be said for the peace of living on your own. I have never really got on with Mark Hollis's solo, but it makes sense when you are able to listen to it with this view after a productive day.

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