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One last time for this. Friday's blog post. PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #45 featuring mental health interventions (again); The Thing, and yet another education article in the Observer.

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Another reminder for this. Yesterday's blog post. PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #45 featuring mental health interventions (again); The Thing, and yet another education article in the Observer.

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In case you missed it. Yesterday's blog post. PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #45 featuring mental health interventions (again); The Thing, and yet another education article in the Observer.

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New blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #45 featuring mental health interventions (again); The Thing, and yet another education article in the Observer.

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Love this list of low-level irritating behaviour in classroom from @oldandrewuk.bsky.social My crews know that I will go to an icy, silent rage at the nearest crinkle of a plastic bottle!

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One last time for this. Tuesday's blog post. Minor bad behaviours that wind teachers up

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Another reminder for this. Tuesday's blog post. Minor bad behaviours that wind teachers up

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In case you missed it. Tuesday's blog post. Minor bad behaviours that wind teachers up

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One last time for this. Sunday's blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: Motivation Part 3

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New blog post. Minor bad behaviours that wind teachers up

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Another reminder for this: Yesterday's blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: Motivation Part 3

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In case you missed it: Yesterday's blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: Motivation Part 3

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No matter how much people might wish otherwise, nobody can learn "to think" without learning a lot of facts.

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I've asked this before, but I'd like to get enough responses to make a blog post out of it: What is the most minor type of bad behaviour that winds you up?

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New blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: Motivation Part 3

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I've asked this before, but I'd like to get enough responses to make a blog post out of it: What is the most minor type of bad behaviour that winds you up?

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Therapeutic approaches to behaviour management = no rules. It’s about “letting them get away with it". It’s about replacing punishment with adults signalling their own virtue. Of course, if you have never been a teacher, you might not realise that.

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Treating young perpetrators of violence as if they were victims has become completely normalised among charities and activists.

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One last time for this. Tuesday's blog post. School shaming is unfair. Part 4

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Another reminder for this. Tuesday's blog post School shaming is unfair. Part 4

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It is incredible that anyone ever seriously argued that children should be prepared for jobs where they need to know less.

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In case you missed it. Yesterday's blog post. School shaming is unfair. Part 4

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New blog post School shaming is unfair. Part 4

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One last time for this. Sunday's blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: My teaching - Part 5: Using the mini whiteboards

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This story confirms all my prejudices about local authorities. It's a massive conflict of interest for the body in charge of provision for excluded pupils to have any influence over exclusion decisions.

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Another reminder for this. Yesterday's blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: My teaching - Part 5: Using the mini whiteboards

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In case you missed it. Yesterday's blog post. PREMIUM: My teaching - Part 5: Using the mini whiteboards

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New blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: My teaching - Part 5: Using the mini whiteboards

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First, they take the "s" from maths, now this:

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Trying to decide whether to renew my ChatGPT subscription. On the positive side, it can produce useful resources for work including worksheets and powerpoints. On the negative side, it really sucks at trigonometric equations.

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I'm beginning to change my mind about the value of teaching citizenship or civics. I've been astounded in recent months at how many people on social media don't have the slightest clue about the legal system, particularly about criminal justice....

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I don't know who needs to know this, but ChatGPT is terrible at trigonometric equations.

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I am severely afflicted with end-of-term-brain right now.

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How can it only be Wednesday?

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In case you missed it. Yesterday's blog post. School shaming is unfair. Part 3

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A reminder of how opposed the education establishment were to a knowledge-based curriculum.

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New blog post. School shaming is unfair. Part 3

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It's hard to believe now, but for several years it was claimed that Scotland's low exclusion rates were because schools were successfully addressing the root causes of behaviour. Schools in England were encouraged to take the same approach.

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This is insane. While we don't know the details of what happened in Sheffield, we do know enough about Ammanford to know that anything other than zero tolerance for knives in schools is objectively wrong.

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Online parents' evenings are so much better than in-person ones.

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This is worth a read. www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Teach-Be...

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One of the strangest things about Ofsted in the early 2010s was that years after the official policy had changed to "no expected style of teaching ", Ofsted subject leads still pushed particular styles of teaching.

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One last time for this. Friday's blog post. (£ or free trial) PREMIUM: Motivation Part 2

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When education systems go progressive they either end up with a behaviour crisis, a collapse in literacy and numeracy, or both.

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What education accounts should I be following on here?

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