Andrew Buckley

Lecturer of English within Further Education. Graduate of @LancasterUni & @aberdeenuni 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇻🇦

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow, "Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

The phone pouch companies must be laughing all the way to the bank right now.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@SkyNews Oh good, no change from last year then. Or the year before that…

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@BBCNews In many cases the students can’t absorb all the content in two years. This is why schools have to start earlier.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@TTRadioOfficial Would you put your worst teachers teaching A Level?

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@adamboxer1 Isn’t it the case that some schools have brought forward their GCSE content because two years isn’t enough to prepare a lot of students?

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@Just_Maths Loving the positivity in this challenge. 😃

How do you think this would go down in an FE setting? 16+ kids who have already fallen short of a grade 4 @ GCSE and by condition of funding have to keep doing their GCSEs in Maths & English until they gain a 4.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

In a maths lesson today a learner who wasn’t engaged, when challenged said to the teacher “make me engage lad.”

What would you have done in this situation?

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

Listening to people talk on @bbcquestiontime about the need for immigration, as though it’s the only solution to falling birth rates is silly. People in the UK need to have more babies. #BBCQT

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Strictly Education is OUT!

Will the riots will come to Britain?

And why are they spreading all over Europe?

Have a watch!
https://t.co/70lXf31Y8H

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@TimothyMcGuire @Sachinettiyil If voting in American politics would lead to excommunication. Catholics could be excommunicated for taking part at all.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

So many experienced teachers a) off on sick b) on the verge of being off on sick. And why? Nothing to do with their ability as teachers. Many of them in semi-senior positions. What a waste. And if ppl just CHILLED THE HELL OUT then they'd still be in. Being constantly hassled, scrutinised, distrusted, made to feel inadequete. Who can replace them? Will they be better? ppl should always ask themselves that before treating them in that way.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@tryfrizzle I agree the delivery is what carries the seriousness of the comment. I’d describe it as delivered with a sense of entitlement and almost with some authority.

Sadly in my setting the learners know that there isn’t any consequence if they don’t engage.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@Telegraph @TheTomFordy It was a brilliant film which actually added some serious depth to a character that had gone for years without any decent scriptwriters.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@markgoldbridge I thought Carrick wasn’t to blame?

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?

On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.

There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.

As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.

This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@RogersHistory I’d rejoice if any of my students walked out on the 20th. It would give me a chance to catch up on admin.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@marcmaths @TTRadioOfficial @HLearningPD Oh I don’t know, I think being told to “fuck off you fucking nonce cunt” might require some correction.

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

Yes, because saying “we was” in place of “we were” isn’t grammatically correct.

[Teachers Talk Radio @TTRadioOfficial]

A pupil says “we was” instead of “we were” - Do you correct them? 🗣️

And what message does that send if it’s how their family speaks?

Amy Gaunt argues that teaching Standard English matters but so does how we teach it. Can we help pupils adapt their language for different situations without telling them their home dialect is wrong?

Do you agree with Amy? Where would you draw the line? 👇

From our discussion on Creating an Oracy Curriculum, in partnership with Hachette Learning.

#Oracy #Teaching #teacherlife #teachertok #teachersoftiktok

[Andrew Buckley @AndrewJPBuckley]

@naturebeauty760 The one who started it.