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Science teacher at TTA | Co-founder Carousel Learning | CogSciSci | researchED | CPD/INSET | TBFM podcast | Springboard Science

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

Webinars are live! Please see the link for the webinars I am going to be putting on this year, and do feel free to get in touch with any other requests for CPD/support :) Please share if you can 🙏🙏

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Adam Boxer Education I have been extremely lucky to be asked to deliver CPD, coaching and curriculum support to a range of schools in a range of settings. On this page you can find more information…

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2 years

A hill I will die on: attendance awards are stupid and mean

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4 years

I want to go back to school

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I haven't marked a student's book in over three years. I haven't written a comment in a student's book in over three years. I haven't taken students' books home with me in over three years. In all that time, not a single student has complained. And I flipping love my school.

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1 year

I know that calling in sick as a teacher can sometimes be a hassle and stuff but honestly this widespread "must be in!" mentality thing has to stop. Stay home. Get better.

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2 years

Really proud of the haul of cards and gifts I got from my students this year 💪💪💪

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4 years

Baby boy Boxer 🥰🥰🥰 Massive gratitude to my wife and the amazing people at @WestHertsNHS @whhtmidwives

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4 years

Just heard there is an outfit charging for PGCE interview support. Ill do it for free. If you have just finished your PGCE and are struggling to secure an appointment, I can guarantee a myriad of teachers will comment right here to say they will help you for free. Please share!

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6 years

I have finally updated Useful Bits and Pieces for Evidence Informed Teaching with a couple of terms' worth of backlog. There's around 100 new links in there - hopefully should prove helpful!

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Useful bits and pieces for evidence informed teaching

Below is a list of things I have read and found interesting and have helped me develop as a teacher. I’ve been collecting them over the last year or so and tried desperately to keep them in o…

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1 year

It's *insanely* difficult in this country to be an effective parent and worker unless you Are in a relationship Have parents who can help Have friends who can help Are comparatively wealthy Are always healthy Are living within a ten minute walk of your kid's school

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1 year

The @thetimes released their list of "top" schools in the country. In the top 10 comprehensives there is ONE school with pupil premium over 15%. I'm sure those schools are great, but we need to nationally celebrate the schools that work with the most disadvantaged pupils. 🧵

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Surely we win all the parenting points

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3 years

Fed up of hearing people on the media saying things like "The school didn't do anything" When what probably happened was "The school tried its best, but couldn't do the jobs of parents, the police, social services, the NHS and CAMHS single handedly"

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1 year

I go to a lot of schools, and everyone is focusing on metacognition or dual coding or disciplinary this or curriculum intent that. Then I go into lessons, and teachers are asking questions and students are calling out answers or tchrs are picking ones with hands up. Fix that. >

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2 months

There's a feeling you get in your stomach when you're about to teach *that* student or *that* class. It's not a nice feeling. I won't take lectures about behaviour or trauma or relationships from anyone who hasn't felt that.

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3 years

If I'm ever made in charge of The Schools, the first thing to be burned to the ground will be all the PGCE and NQT paperwork.

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11 months

Having to cancel a sports day for a strike is absolutely heartbreaking. But better to do it this year, once, in the hope that we don't have to permanently cancel them once we have no teachers and no money to rent premises.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

7 months

Just *blew a trainee's mind* by showing them how to Use "win + v" to access your clipboard and copy and paste multiple items Use "win + ." to access mathematical and scientific symbols Use word's "print pages: 1,1" to print the same page twice on a sheet 🤯🥳🤣

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

It turns out that our quite brilliant assistant principle has started a blog to document how she improved quality of writing across the school. Genuinely, it's a masterpiece. Read, and please share.

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#1 Designing and Implementing a Whole-School Approach to Improving Writing: First Steps.

This blog is the first in a series where I explain how we have embarked on a school-wide initiative to improve the quality of our pupils’ extended writing. Though our aim was to bring up the …

readytowritecouk.wordpress.com

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2 years

Isn't it SO WEIRD that there's a massive positive correlation between "Students who are generally badly behaved" And "Students who always need the toilet in lessons" SO WEIRD

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6 years

A kid in my new year 11 class told me that he learnt more today than he has done in four and a half years of secondary science. Which is great, except that I taught him in year 9 too.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

This picture is pure vanity, but I'm OK with that. 14 year 7 and year 8 booklets. Explanations, models and thousands of questions. Just over two years of work. All available for free on my blog.

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3 years

***how to calculate your age in teacher years*** Take your age, and add 750.

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3 years

Find yourself a headteacher who knows your worth without having to look in a folder

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2 years

Schools: what we need to get the best outcomes for our students is more funding, a better social security model, more support with mental health, better training, better curriculum materials. DfE: have you thought about extending the school day?

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2 years

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

4 years

Today a colleague called in with a temperature - she had two triple lessons, first lot with Y8 and second lot Y7. We decided to bunch the classes together and teach 60 kids in the hall. I'm fairly confident this will happen again, so here is a short thread with things we learned:

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

3 years

Yearly reminder that you can both be a brilliant teacher and get very few end of year gifts from your students. Don't feel like you've not done enough.

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4 years

My lessons aren't fun. Sometimes I have banter with the kids. Make them laugh. But broadly, not fun. I'm pretty cool with that. If your lessons are fun, and the kids learn as much as they would if the lessons weren't fun, I'm cool with that too.

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3 years

I know I can be punchy on here, but I am actually fairly calm most if the time. Tonight, I'm absolutely hopping mad. White with fury. The wasted time, the fannying around - playing with people's lives. Livid.

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5 years

Just had my last ever lesson with *that* class. If you've never felt the fear, shame, frustration, anger and despondency that come with a behaviourally difficult class, you can't empathise with my relief right now.

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3 years

Things which are rapidly becoming fads: Metacognition Dual Coding Curriculum Retrieval practice Limited understanding + forced implementation = ripe for becoming a Bad Thing Symptoms below >>

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2 years

Was chatting with a colleague today and we were looking at how to use this flowchart to improve both our circulation. It's a bit messy at first, but makes sense when you get stuck in I think. May be useful!

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1 year

If people are struggling with workload, it's almost always an issue of 1. Too much to do 2. Crappy systems Some ideas for solving each 👇👇

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

4 years

Does anyone else find videoing lessons way more exhausting than normal teaching? Gives me a massive headache and sore throat.

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8 months

I think they should rephrase this one tbh

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

1 year

Apparently in a bunch of schools SLT have left it with teachers to choose to play the game tomorrow afternoon. To the teachers who decide to teach normally: you're not the heroes we deserve, but you're the ones we need.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

3 years

It's taken me some time, but I have now finished our year 7 and 8 booklets for next year. 14 booklets, covering the lion's share of the National Curriculum, free to take. ✅Explanations ✅Diagrams ✅Core Questions ✅Thousands of practice questions

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Key Stage 3 Science Resources

I am hoping to release a huge number of KS3 resources soon, if you’d like to be notified when that happens click here. Key Stage 3 science has always been a bit of a hobby-horse of mine, as …

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7 months

First day back at school for me was v tough. On the edge. Cried a few times after catching up with colleagues. BUT Two Muslim students stayed after one of my lessons today to tell me they would pray for my family, and inshallah it will all end soon ❤️🙏

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5 years

Don't know about you but I'm a human being as well as a teacher so: 1 Not thrilled about going back to work 2 Not gonna pretend I love a kid who ruins my lessons 3 Not gonna get upset if I can't inspire every student to love chemistry 4 Not gonna get beat up that I ain't superman

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

The edu-morning-after-walk-of-shame: Returning to work after two weeks off with the same stack of unmarked papers we left with. We've all done it. We've all felt the shame. We will all do it again.

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For years teachers have been gaslit on behaviour by the Educational Intelligentsia. We've been told that it's not a big deal, and if it were a big deal it would be our fault for not being engaging enough or relatable enough or we don't understand trauma, or SEND or any host of…

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2 years

Opinion: when it comes to teaching, variety is not the spice of life. Routines, habits and consistency rule the game. Doing just a few things but doing them bloody well...that's what it's about.

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1 year

Year 10 boys in the summer be like

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3 years

Science Teachers! With remote learning on the horizon, here is a short thread with some useful free resources. Please read to the end and make sure to share widely - we need to help each other.

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1 year

"If your lessons or curriculum were more exciting or interesting, teenage students wouldn't ask to go to the toilet so much" ...has to be one of the dumbest takes in edutwitter discourse. Totally pie-in-the-sky and entirely out of touch.

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4 years

A tale in three parts. Note that this is for a national show with a *very* large audience.

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2 years

It's not a great start tbh

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3 years

Ok edu-nerds: here is the MEGA-THREAD you have been waiting for...blogs from times gone past that you probably haven't read, but probably should. Buckle up. Rules go in the second tweet, blogs start in the third tweet. Read, and share. >

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3 years

*Joe was hugely influential on me, and is a classic case of "Adam's historical edublogging concern": that there are a number of absolutely brilliant blogs from a number of years back which people new to the edu-twitter-blogosphere will never read.

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3 years

Hearing of schools that are making staff come to school to work even when they are fully set up to WFH. This makes no sense to me on multiple levels - leaders you should not do this.

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5 years

Challenge beyond Bloom’s

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2 years

If I were Labour Shadow Ed Sec, these are the policies I would start working on now: 1. End charitable status for independent schools. Tax fees like anything else, having subtracted the per pupil funding in that LA.

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2 years

If students are refusing to sit in their designated seats and leadership refuses to back you, leave the school. There are schools out there that will show you more respect and believe me, they're hiring.

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3 years

Dunno why school leaders seem obsessed with delivering live lessons. They sound like a nightmare to administrate for most schools, and there are plenty of sound pedagogical and social/equitable reasons to prefer pre recorded videos. 1/

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

4 years

"Your ignorance is not a defence" LEGEND

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Vix Lowthion 💚

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. @skynewsniall shows how it should be done

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2 years

My wife is away for a few days for a family thing, and I'm solo parenting the kids. Boy oh boy, are single parents just the most incredible people in the world. Endless respect to them.

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3 years

I think even "good" CPD fails a lot of the time because it's too theoretical. Talks about cognitive load theory, curriculum, retrieval practice - whatever. It's got to be about what happens tomorrow, period 1, or impact will be tiny. That's what I reckon.

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2 years

Giddy with excitement to see this in print. It was a genuine labour of love and I hope people find it helpful :) Tonight, I drink.

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2 years

Lord knows I've had my problems with Katherine B and I think she's said many an outrageous thing recently. But my days Michaela's results are ridiculous. Progress 8 of +2.27 is INSANE

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10 months

@MarcusLuther6 I wait right up until the end of the lesson and then we have this ace activity where they get out their seats and pack their stuff up and get ready to leave

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

3 years

Job that SLT hates: writing the school timetable Job that HODs flipping love: writing the dept timetable Seriously, it's like championship manager. Figuring out how to best deploy my squad gets all my nerd nerves a-tingling. LOVE IT

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3 years

"It says quite a lot about the norms of our profession and fragmentation of our curriculum that many of us are individually preparing our own video lessons on extremely similar content. This is highly inefficient." Discuss.

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2 years

Ok, for those who don't understand the word "correlation" and assume that I am a psychopath. I MADE A GRAPH

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Isn't it SO WEIRD that there's a massive positive correlation between "Students who are generally badly behaved" And "Students who always need the toilet in lessons" SO WEIRD

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4 years

Over the last decade if you haven't: Done a degree Done a masters Had six kids Got 19 promotions Conquered Adversity Received a CBE Won a Nobel prize Saved a litter of puppies from being drowned Bought a 7 bed house in Kensington Have you even lived?

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2 years

Teachers: we would like A bit more pay A bit less contact time A bit more support from external services Fewer emails Better CPD A slightly gentler hearing in the press Politicians: have you thought about artificial intelligence? Teachers:

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2 years

Had a proper cry in the car this morning during the news feature about Arthur. Though I pray this never happens again, we have to assume that it could, and stay ever vigilant to safeguard those who need it most. 😥😥 #RIPArthur

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2 years

Reminder: not getting any gifts doesn't mean you aren't good at your job or you haven't worked bloody hard for your kids

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3 years

Despite being die-hard-trad-knowledge-rich proponent I agree with this. I cant bring myself to care that much that my GCSE kids might know electrolysis a bit worse than in the past. But I feel the social isolation and frustration myself keenly - how much more so for my students?

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My children aren't part of a generation that need to catch up. They need to reconnect. It's laughing with friends, exercise and activities, messing around on the beach and cuddles with their grandparents that they are missing and now need.

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4 years

Finally uploaded this blank Retrieval Roulette template that allows you to generate a printable sheet with 30 random questions and blank space for students to write their answers. Cover work = sorted. Please share.

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Retrieval Roulettes!

UPDATE: the Roulette has been massively pimped up via Carousel learning. If you want to know more about that, click here. A little while back I released the Retrieval Roulette with the aim of help…

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4 years

I turn 30 today and I am DELIGHTED to not have to see anyone or do a party. "Hey can we come round and say hi today?" "No, covid." "But you don't h-" "PRESENTS AND CAKE IN THE POST PLEASE"

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5 years

I have done a MASSIVE upload of all the SLOP booklets I've been working on over the last couple of years. Detailed explanations, worked examples and probably >2000 carefully sequenced questions for your students to get stuck into!

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All the SLOP you need

All the resources below are published absolutely free of charge. If you want to say thank you or support me in some other way, click here. Chemistry *and* physics booklets I have finally fini…

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2 years

Have to say I don't like using timers for student work. Like, how do you know how long it's going to take? I always just make it up. Tell them they have eleven minutes or whatever and then stop them when it's the right time, and not a time I prophesied earlier

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2 years

This is our department's feedback policy if anyone is interested, but the very fact that people are like "what do you do instead" is worrying. Marking is a NOTHING, it's like saying "oh you don't begin your class with a ritual dance, what do you do instead?"

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4 years

Anyone else doing PE with Joe Wicks at 9am?

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3 years

To the right wing press which cares *so much* about children's education: where were you for 10 years of schools, CAMHS and social services underfunding?

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Hard-left National Education Union opposes schools reopening even if all teachers get a priority jab. Schools clearly an inconvenience for teachers’ union, since they only get in the way of its real passion — political activism. It would help NEA if we just closed schools forever

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4 years

Teachers wondering how to fit students into classrooms 2m apart should measure the height of their ceilings and invest in velcro. Might be a possible solution.

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3 years

If it wasn't for Oak National Academy, I don't think I'd have made it through this half term. I have a HUGE amount to be grateful for.

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4 months

Worse attendance Worse behaviour Worse conditions Worse pay Worse estate Less professional respect Everyone's leaving Nobody's joining In my opinion, all these things have one ultimate cause: our government.

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2 years

Anyway, I've collated everything I know about behaviour here. I have tried to keep it 1. Concrete 2. Time efficient 3. Helpful 4. Possible I stand on the shoulders of giants. Hope it helps.

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On this page I have collected various bits and pieces I have written on behaviour. I think that behaviour is a massive issue in many schools, perhaps the most important issue, and have therefore de…

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1 year

Got my big yearly observation today. Planned out: Differentiated lesson objectives 3 mini plenaries Lesson plan with precise timings Wordsearch starter Powerpoint Paired work Activities at different places in the room Lollipop sticks 4 differentiated worksheets Wish me luck!

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5 years

Incredibly excited to formally launch the #CogSciSci website! Featuring resources, online learning modules, practitioner blog posts, book reviews and more, it's a one-stop-shop for the thinking science teacher. Please read, explore and share widely.

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2 years

Roughly once a week, someone on here asks for behaviour advice. Roughly once a week, there is a deluge of bad behaviour advice in response. Generally four categories: 1. So woolly as to be meaningless 2. A waste of time 3. Actively damaging 4. Impossible stuff Examples below:

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3 years

I miss the staff room

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2 years

If you are a middle or senior leader who *expects* people to work on weekends or in the evenings or on holiday...stop doing that.

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1 year

Here's a fun thing to think about in your lesson tomorrow: it's called the "repeated instruction game" It goes a bit like this 👇👇

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Me in corridor seven minutes after lesson starts: why are you in the corridor Sheep: I forgot my bag in the playground Me: ok and what about the rest of you ...

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

12 days

Never in the history of human endeavour has there been an action as futile as ticking the "don't show this again" box

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

1 year

I did some work with MAT-wide SLT today on how to improve Teaching and Learning. One of the big themes was about designing T&L programmes around actual needs, rather than cool and trendy things. What do I mean by this? >

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

3 years

The last 14 months have been really hard, personally and professionally. Very much not looking forward to this term, despite loving teaching and loving my school. I reckon it's ok to say that out loud.

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4 months

I've felt deeply humiliated by students. When you stand there in front of a full room, and through their actions a 14 year old makes you feel incompetent and ashamed. I don't think this is particularly uncommon. But if you haven't felt it, show some humility and stop preaching.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

Saw three teacher-friends today who I haven't seen in a while. All completed exhausted, borderline burnt out. One more week, people. Just one more week.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

A colleague spotted students from a different school doing something really worrying in a local park. They passed it on to that school's DSL with as much detail as they could, and a *very* important issue was picked up as a result. Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

6 years

Veteran teachers have to be the most under-regarding group in teaching. The people who have made conscious decisions not to climb the greasy pole but to year on year just become better teachers deserve our recognition as a category of their own: not lumped with SLT or consultants

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

Always frustrating watching the armchair pundits talking about behaviour policies in tough schools. Experiencing poor behaviour is crushing and debilitating. You feel inadequate and ashamed. If you aren't starting with a knowledge of those feelings, you should avoid commenting.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

My heart goes out to this poor woman. That she is continuing to persevere to try and find the good people in the crowd is a testament. I would have left and never returned.

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So this is Meghan Markle trying to shake hands with the British public. She gets ignored, laughed at and humiliated. This country has a rotten racism problem… & notice how they’re all middle aged white women? Daily Mail reading, racist Karens. Absolutely abhorrent behaviour.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

2 years

I done another graph

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

3 years

I remotely set *18* cover lessons this morning, and all I can say is thank GOD for Oak National Academy. Still amazed that there were those in education that opposed its formation and continued existence. Absolute life saver.

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

4 years

Great list of safe places to visit this weekend

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Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

4 years

Growing up, we had the same next-door neighbours for close to 25 years. The dad went into hospital with covid 9 weeks ago, on the edge that entire time. Well, the whole street and half the community just turned up to clap him out of the ambulance as he came home. Amazing.

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3 years

I done a graph

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