robinyoung.bsky.social
Anti-racist. Neurodivergent, AuDHD.
Pro EU. Physics Teacher. Bilingüe (casi). LGBTQ+ ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
(Latin) Jazz Musician (perc, guitar).
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According to research, apparently yes. From personal experience, hard to say what works these days other than teaching seems so much harder to get the same results, the curriculum is really boring, everyone is stressed … so no, it’s not working really.
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8. Families and children continue to be penalised by benefits cuts and the continuation of the draconian two-child cap. Some hope with widening access to free school meals, but why not make it available to all at Primary? And stop OFSTED and the bloody P8 blighting lives of tchrs, leaders and stdnts
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7. So thank you Adrian for drawing our attention to well-being. It has to be prioritised before anything else. In the UK, this government are proposing to make strident well-fare cuts and once again, disabled people are disproportionately affected by changes to PIP and Access to Work Funding.
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6. Lack of support and inaccessible and a restricted curricular focus to prioritise P8 profit, are adversely affecting the academic progress and wellbeing of disabled students.
(With disability, I refer to the social model and include neurodivergent people throughout).
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5. For disabled educators and students, the adverse effects on wellbeing and performance are disproportionally higher. How many disabled educators are leaving or even being forced out of mainstream schools through intolerable pressures, lack of reasonable adjustments or even blatant discrimination?
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4. Mental health and well-being crisis for students. Burn out for educators and support staff. Recruitment and retention crisis in many schools. Kids coming to school really, really hungry and with an array of anxiety disorders that staff are not trained or able to cope with.
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3. So what’s the caveat? As you say, well-being, well-being, well-being. None of this should be at the expense of well being. P8 is the profit margin for the shareholders at the expense of the teachers and the products (students). It’s a complete nonsense and there are mounting casualties.
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2. My go to’s are the evidence cited by Barak Rosenshine, Kirshner, Willingham, Prof Coe, Sweller, Clark. The last decade has been transformative in the education sector for providing the tools students and educators need to making learning stick and addressing wider SEND needs.
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1. I’m all for Ed research and evidence based theories of learning to harness good teaching and learning strategies. We should promote retrieval, interleaving, spaced practice, elaboration, etc. Understand cog load, dual coding, blah blah. It works and students become better more efficient learners
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That’s why Reform can’t be trusted. What about the Gregg’s sausage rolls?
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NF has a complete different motivation for removing the benefit cap, and he has made it clear that it wouldn’t be for all families. REFORM follow an orbanesque ideology, so any attempt to move into their political ground is completely alien to what the Labour Party (used to/should) stand for.
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¡Pero que fuerte el imagen!
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Many articles online highlight that - Misogyny is the gateway to white male supremacy. So acceptance of adolescence threatens the far right’s Orban-playbook ideology.
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Don’t we already have an encyclopaedia of evidence as to who this man is? The problem is that neither the mainstream media nor many of the public choose to see who he really is. For example, what is his real thinking behind removing the two child benefit cap? And which families would qualify?
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Agreed but with caveats. Screen grabs when you suspect that the post will be taken down in the future, as a way of keeping the receipts. Screen grabs when you want to draw attention to a toxic post without amplifying their message.
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Dr Chew says: 2. Knowledge is composed of isolated facts. Exams assess comprehension and not fact recall.
Is this one of the pitfalls of how we seem to be approaching retrieval practice in secondary schools? Are we inadvertently encouraging students to prioritise recall over comprehension?
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The whole inspection model is flawed and unnecessarily stressful for all concerned. Observation, however many days, is flawed because it is unnatural and interferes with the reality. Ask Shrodinger’s cat. Time to think completely outside the box because we are really bad at judging what’s inside.
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I’m having water. Best drink there is.
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It’s what he writes that is extraordinary. This guy has been elected to the presidency of the US and spews out vitriolic garbage about anyone who challenges his character, leadership and politics. But he’s not alone in divisive rhetoric. Look what a UK ex CPS director said on immigration this week.
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That’s happening to me too. Well, except I don’t get mobbed, but polite hellos from people I have taught over the last 18 years.
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It’s only confusing to those who are not confused.
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This use of the word ‘alien’ to refer to another human being as if they were 1) an invader 2) not human or even from another planet, is literally dehumanising. It is used to strip so called ‘others’ of their HUMAN rights. Due process applies to all, regardless of their immigration status.
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Notice the colour of his lightsaber.
Who in Star Wars has a red lightsaber?
The red lightsaber is most commonly associated with Sith Lords like Darth Sidious, Count Dooku, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, and Kylo Ren, among many other practitioners of the Dark Side
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Yup. They can send the documents by printing to the photocopier and someone in admin can pick them up. Heads have got a school to run and should always delegate what others can do for them and focus on the job they’re paid to do.
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Nothing to see here! The audio is fine. It’s like that so that if you don’t get it the first time, the repeats will help you catch up.
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Rest-bite for parents.
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Cos it’s custard and jelly mate! But you don’t have to say the rhyming word. Like, scarpa means go init. Cos scarpa an go rhyme. You know, Scarpa-flow = go
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Absolutely! Nobody deserves to be or should be eliminated in any way, shape or form. And what kind of societies actively withdraw support for those most in need? We should be judged on how well we look after our minority groups and those most in need.
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How bizarre! Did she really say: I don’t think that trans women like cooking, so they’re not really women. After all, only women cook. My poor kids generation now have got a lifetime of work to do just to get back to where we were a week ago.
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Weird. I can do all the things that RFK says an autistic person can’t do. I have a masters science degree, I can hold down a graduate job and have paid taxed all my working life, I have got married and jointly raised a family, I can even go to the toilet unaided. Maybe I’m not autistic after all.
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Exactly! Keep asking.
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‘Radical transparency’ is a phrase synonymous with the word ‘opaque’
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Those bloody guanobe pengwings
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Absolutely, and those in the centre get the famous BBC balance and impartiality.