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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

You're so vain You probably think this tweet is about you

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Breaking news. Parliament to be extended by 30 minutes a day and MPs holidays to be reduced in order to catch up on lost parliamentary time. 😑

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Educator Supe

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1 year

Had all those teachers who did five years got fed up and left, stayed. We wouldn’t have such a shortage of teachers. It’s not just a recruitment issue, it’s retention. We need to look at what’s gone so wrong with teaching.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

Btw. Schools aren’t closing. Teaching will continue, my timetable unaffected other than doing it by zoom. That is all.

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3 years

Everyone I speak to right now says the same thing. Tired, deep tired. Even the kids are saying they’re really tired. What’s going on here?

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Germany is vaccinating all teachers. 🤷‍♂️

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

School break over Christmas. I’d much rather teaching right up to Christmas Eve and returning a week after New Year’s Day. Some would say two weeks is two weeks but having experienced both I’d say leaving a week after new years feels much longer.

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3 years

Kids that have 5 or 6 periods in a school day, are they really expected to sit through 5 or 6 zoom type sessions in a day? I wonder if this is too much.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

Dear teachers. Stop wanting a shorter summer and longer winter breaks. Children need a childhood. Thanks.

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Educator Supe

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2 years

Thought for the day. Years ago there was a World Cup game involving England scheduled during a school day. Screens were set up in the sports hall for the school to watch the game. The noise was deafening and I still remember that day vividly. So will those children.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

Teacher salary should be centrally funded and not part of a schools budget. The best candidate should be the issue, not the cheapest.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

4 years

Lockdown is much harder for many teachers with young children at home, especially single parents with no adult company. Split attention makes workflow much more draining. Leaving work until bedtime just makes the day twice as long.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

For years I’ve noticed the fatigue that sets in after about 6 weeks. I put that down to nervous system drain from dealing with children all day. Yet I’m still similarly fatigued as half term approaches despite teaching remotely. A longer school day/term will be unsustainable.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

There can be no clearer confirmation that this government doesn’t want teachers for very long.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

My hypothesis. Everyone had a major reset over lockdown and realised the pace of life pre covid wasn’t healthy. Schools then went right back to exactly the same as they were before, but the children didn’t. I can’t believe we didn’t take stock and implement changes in schools.

Torsten Bell

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1 year

This is what a disaster looks like

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

You know what would fix teacher well-being in schools? An hour for lunch. Protected.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

Thought for the day. A difficult class this afternoon. 1 removal 2 robust warnings 27 pupils fine. 27/30 is 90% perfect. Don’t let the 10% dominate your thoughts.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Dear Mr Wilshaw. I work in one of the schools most affected by lockdown. I have taught every single timetabled lesson live as per my published timetable. I go into school every day and have to force myself to break for lunch. We “go the extra mile” every day. #newsnight

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Educator Supe

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4 years

So, the current concerns that many schools are not providing adequate online learning & support during the crisis... Less than a third of my classes are doing the work I’ve provided. The tasks are online with instructional videos and a wealth of support and I’m giving feedback.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

Here’s a suggestion. Government to agree an INSET day for teachers to administrate and mark pupil work for GCSE TAGs.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Average family (2.4 people) weekly food bill: £97. One day visit to Lego land 2 adults 1 child including food and parking: £95. A family day out should not be close to the cost of a weeks food.

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Educator Supe

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2 years

Teaching. Feels like a 12 hour job squeezed into 6. This is why marking is debated so much. Trying to seriously mark anything requiring high order thinking after a days teaching is twice as hard as it would be. Probably why many teachers take marking home, and why many leave.

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Educator Supe

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8 months

I really don’t get the obsession with maths. Let’s be honest, 90% or more of society use very little maths above a year 9 standard. Far better to focus on literacy.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

This government really hates teachers don’t they? I mean, they *really* hate teachers.

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3 months

There needs to be some serious investment in more alternative provision for the increasing number of pupils not coping with mainstream schooling.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

The most toxic aspect of teaching is the sheer amount of teaching. No serious teacher development is going to happen under the current conditions of service. I can be so much more than the current system allows me.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 months

You have to ask yourself why we are probably the only country in the world contemplating shortening one of the shortest school summer breaks. Why not a report recommending lengthening school breaks in line with private schools? It’s cruel. It #stinks

School summer holidays in England should be cut to four weeks, report says

Experts to also recommend longer half-term breaks in proposed overhaul of school calendar ‘in place since Victorian times’

www.theguardian.com

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Dear schools. Scrap period 1 for all pupils while online teaching continues. I’ve had near a dozen moments this week talking to parents and pupils over the difficulties with sleep patterns over lockdown. Make period one a national teacher cpd period.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

5 years

I saw a guy parenting today. No drawn out reasoning. No reward plea bargaining. No distraction techniques. He just stood there. Saying no. Like a psychopath.

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Educator Supe

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4 months

I’ve never got the pen issue. A proportion of the class will not have a pen. Always has been and always will be. Just provide them. There are more important things in education.

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@ShakinthatChalk

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This catch up narrative. Schools carried on teaching. I taught every single timetabled lesson. I’m still teaching as normal. Most kids are learning from home and of course some aren’t but that’s not reason enough to rob the nations children of their private time.

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Educator Supe

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3 months

An ex pupil visited me today. Extremely troubled lad wanted to be a bricklayer. Was told by the college that because he wasn’t going to pass his English he was going to fail the course, so he dropped out. This is everything wrong with education. @Keir_Starmer @bphillipsonMP

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

6 months

I’m teaching 15 year olds barely working at primary level maths. They’re going to have to be retaking GCSE maths at college until they’re 18. It’s cruel.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

Why this thread? The more contextual information given to a teacher, the more they will be able to adapt as appropriate. Of course there are limits. However, not knowing a context disadvantages the teacher in the complex craft of live classroom management. Food for thought.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

4 years

A year 9 boy stopped me in the corridor today as pupils moved into lesson. Through his mask I heard him mumble that he wished he had me as his teacher still. Throughout the whole of year 8 he never spoke a word to me. For some reason I feel so sad.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

OH is beside herself. A lorry driver on the motorway changed lanes into her. Destroyed the side of the car. He was on his phone. Refused to stop despite other motorists flashing him and pulling front trying to get him to pull over. He’s been filmed. Police on it. Prison I hope.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

On a recent INSET day. Three teachers asked for a pen. 🤭

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

10 months

Breaking news. Teachers to receive a pay cut a little better than the pay cut previously offered. 😑

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 month

HOLD THE WALL Full time whistle Ah never mind.. #Pompey #PUP

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Educator Supe

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3 years

If being a teacher is such a cushy job, why do we have a recruitment crisis?

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

4 months

Dear @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @bphillipsonMP Instantly fix the teacher recruitment crisis. Offer to pay graduates student loan and fund PGCE courses. Requirement to stay in full time classroom teaching for five years or graduate loan reinstated. You’ll recruit instantly.

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Educator Supe

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4 years

Imagine if the government had some kind of education department. A place where knowledge and expertise on teaching could be found. Possibly employed teacher advisors to moderate and even vet ill thought out announcements.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

SLT observing each other’s lessons.

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Educator Supe

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4 years

Thought for the day. If 20% of a working week is that which can be done remotely it’s possible to move to a 4 day week. One day working from home doing tasks online. One day less travelling. A 20% reduction in carbon emissions from cars across society would be huge.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

Adults deciding what school terms should be according to their own preferences. Never ceases to amaze me how child wellbeing and generally having a childhood doesn’t feature in the debate. Children need more of a childhood, not more school.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

A difficult boy asked to be in my class this week after being sent to me on removal. I asked why and he said “because it’s quiet in your room”. This has been said to me on many occasions. I sometimes wonder if it’s the one aspect of my classroom environment that has most impact.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

4 years

Something significant happened around the first week in September. 🤔

Jah

@jah_photoshop

4 years

Covid heatmap since start of March

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

11 months

That child who *always* wears school uniform on days where pupils can dress freely such as sports days, trips, non uniform days. Of all the pupils I’ve observed falling into this category, they all have a similar presentation. Breaks your heart if you think on it for too long.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Years ago I left a school, later heard they had a poor OFSTED and SLT demanded the weeks lesson plans on Monday morning. An older teacher said he couldn’t, offered to work out his notice. SLT refused so he didn’t turn up the following Monday. Left teaching. I still think of him

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Toilet trips in secondary schools. Why not code ‘T’ on SIMS and maybe log the time taken. At days end admin/HoY/SLT process the data and investigate/intervene for patterns forming. It’s only an issue because it’s considered a classroom issue and the teacher is left to manage it

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Educator Supe

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7 months

My year 11 class tell me all their teachers continue teaching when they’re talking. My year 8 class it’s most of them saying the same. This is why maths is so exhausting to teach. I’m constantly battling with pupils expecting to be able to carry on talking over me.

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Educator Supe

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3 years

Who’s with me? #mathteacherrevolt

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

OFSTED is nothing more than a naming and shaming exercise. Remove the grade and we might begin to see some benefit from it. I’m so very tired of spending my whole career in fear of, and in preparation for, an inspection that could ruin my life.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

2 months

I work in an outstanding school. I know it is, I’ve worked in enough schools and for enough years. OFSTED doesn’t think so. The measures by which OFSTED uses to judge a school are not fit for purpose.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

The only reason for schools remaining open is economics. If kids stay home some parents unable to work risk severe financial consequences. Is it time to rethink the society we have? A generation ago it was economically viable for a household to survive on one salary.

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Educator Supe

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6 months

She wasn’t inadequate. No one gets to headship without being more than capable of doing the job. She sacrificed significant moments in her life doing her job. She served her community. An inspectorate that ruins lives is inadequate.

I.N.A.D.E.Q.U.A.T.E - Ruth Perry’s despair in handwritten notes

In the days following an inspection at her school, the head teacher wrote down her innermost thoughts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Educator Supe

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1 year

How did teaching happen before PowerPoint?

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

One thing that year 11 gain time has shown me is that there will never be any significant improvement in teaching and learning in this country. The profession works under a perpetual deficit of time. Unless that changes we will always be doing just enough.

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Educator Supe

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2 years

We need to start saying no. From headteacher down to classroom teacher. The current education system is unsustainable. I’ve been hearing too many horror stories.

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Educator Supe

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2 months

You won’t retain staff with this attitude to teaching.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

4 years

Who gave the government my mobile number?

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

7 months

60+ Year 11 exams to mark. Years ago I could use my weekend time to sit and get them done. As a parent of a demanding child I no longer have that luxury. Are schools cognisant of staff with younger children and how that impacts on workload? Especially single parent teachers?

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

I have too much to do, too little time and not enough energy. I left school tonight cognitively spent. I could have dug holes for hours but not a moment on school work. Teaching in the UK is unsustainable. Had it been like this when I started I would have left within 5 years.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

8 months

I got firm today and removed a couple of pupils intent on sabotaging the lesson. The eyes of those sat there afterwards, you could see the relief and appreciation beaming through. As I dismissed each table one lad walked straight up to me and held his hand out to shake my hand.

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Educator Supe

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2 years

Thought for the day. The purpose of education isn’t to remember stuff.

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@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Pep Guardiola. Tell me again why men can’t dress like this in schools?

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1 year

One of the most toxic aspects of education are the short break and lunch periods. Reinstate long lost traditional break periods and watch how complete the transformation would be for both staff and pupils.

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Staff dress code. It says sleeveless tops are ok for women. Men must wear a shirt and tie. It doesn’t say *only* women can wear a sleeveless top. Tomorrow I be like:

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@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Why do we view the trades as inferior to academic study? It’s a form of prejudice and it’s toxic. No child should be seen to have lesser aspirations because they didn’t go to university.

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@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Thought for the day. I would not be the teacher I am today had I not had the autonomy I enjoyed in my early years. Had my teaching been micromanaged and prescribed I would have left within a few years I’m sure. Something unfathomable to those that left the classroom too soon.

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@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Teaching isn’t a healthy job is it? The way we feel going into a term break is only tolerated on account of the frequent circuit breaks that are school holidays.

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@ShakinthatChalk

1 year

Teachers of that age probably bought property at a fraction of todays market and thus mortgage free in their 50s. This means that they are able to walk away from the utter farce that teaching has become.

Jon Severs

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There's been a disastrous loss of experienced teachers from the profession and not enough people are aware of it, or talking about it. Even more worrying, not enough is being done to stop the over-50s leaving. @heymrshallahan deep dives into the data

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

4 months

Lad lost his temper with me today. Called me all the worst words. Later that day arrived to lesson and without a word sat down and got on with the lesson. I acted like nothing happened. Why? Because context. Something lost in virtually all the behaviour debate on here.

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@ShakinthatChalk

8 months

Behaviour for learning is a huge issue. I’m so tired being told I’m the only teacher that enforces silence when I’m teaching and demands that cross class off task gossip ceases, especially when I’m teaching. It’s this aspect of consistency that needs attention, not starters 🙄.

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

I’ve come to the end of my evidence gathering for year 11. Tonight I’ve crashed. If it were not for the half term break imminent I’d be seriously considering the possibility of my job ruining my health. How often we as teachers cling on because a break will “save us”.

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@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

Short thread Many years ago I had a boy transferred to my class. The moment he walked in he kicked off with the most extreme aggression. It was so bad I thought he would get violent if I didn’t take care in how I handled him. I later found out he had been beaten by his father.

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

Why are teaching assistants so badly paid? Because to pay them an acceptable salary would mean shifting all other salaries up accordingly. And we can’t have that can we?

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@ShakinthatChalk

2 years

I’m assuming school leaders across the nation are currently assessing their cohort for Russian and Ukrainian pupils. Pastoral support must be in place both for pupils and parents of the countries affected.

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Educator Supe

@ShakinthatChalk

10 months

Unbelievable. We’re not safe in teaching are we?

Micon Metcalfe

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Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Ms Sarah Mead - Good grief. I mean GOOD GRIEF. I feel very sorry for this teacher.

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Educator Supe

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2 years

Thought for the day. How long before someone brings a home exercise bike electricity generator to market? An hour providing power enough to run a wash cycle etc. Imagine the environmental impact and the health benefits.

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5 years

Proper respect to reception teachers. I don’t know how you do it. My boy is incredibly demanding. 30 of him would leave me a gibbering wreck.

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3 years

How can a country ranked so high by wealth have food banks and hungry children?

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3 years

The notion of changing the school day because ‘catch up’ is just another iteration of the same tired old child hating debate. Who are they catching up with exactly? The whole world is affected.

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4 years

Remote learning day 1 All online platforms crashed

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4 years

Sir! Are we having a fun lesson today?

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

To this day it bemuses me why PowerPoint became such a mainstay in teaching. Teaching isn’t a presentation.

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3 years

Why don’t we learn french right from the get go in primary? We’d all have at least a rudimentary knowledge of a language as a society.

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@ShakinthatChalk

4 years

@Teacherglitter @smithsmm The problem with older experienced teachers is that they generally know their stuff. This can be a source of great frustration for some leaders who don’t.

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@ShakinthatChalk

4 years

My boys first tooth is now very wobbly. We decided to write a letter. What’s the current £ that the tooth fairy leaves now?

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

An ex pupil said hi yesterday. He told me what his plans were and thanked me for teaching him. I only taught him for a year in ks3 so I asked why he said that. He said I made him ‘get’ maths, and got him to believe in himself. Relationships. They matter.

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4 years

A uncle of mine just pulled through. #COVID_19uk

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3 years

A life devoted to her, it must have been hard to leave. 😢 RIP #HRHPrincePhilip #PrincePhilip

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4 months

Look how far we’ve fallen. There was once a controversy over whether teachers should be required to have a masters. There was also talk of restricting teaching by grade of degree. Now look at it.

Jane Masters

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How it started……….How it’s going

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5 years

What a real IWB should be. Not the useless nonsense I’ve ever had.

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A school blackboard in China

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4 years

‘Botheredness’ Two lads in my outgoing year 11 class. I fought hard to rank them this summer level 5 maths despite their performance data. Difficult but very intelligent boys.

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I’m tired all the time. No other health issues. Able to force myself to the gym and not losing weight, putting on muscle mass. Diet is as good as any, no fad restrictions. Don’t drink or smoke. Not depressed. But so tired and sleep doesn’t fix it. Anyone experienced similar?

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@ShakinthatChalk

3 years

It’s that time of year when female teachers are allowed to wear open neck shirts while male teachers must wear a shirt and tie. Because reasons. 🤷‍♂️🥵

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3 years

It’s Saturday tomorrow. Think I’ll break into school and do a spot of teaching.

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4 years

10 hour zoom meeting to discuss GCSE ranking. 10 hours.

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2 years

Instead of an all out strike why don’t we work to rule? Just teach. No duties, no cover, no marking etc. Thoughts?

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3 years

Thought for the day. After 5 years in a school you become furniture. Pupils see you as a constant having grown up in your presence and new pupils hear of you long before they meet you. All this reset to zero on changing schools but experience helps. Must be brutal being an NQT

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