Colin Forster

Educator. National Teaching Fellow. Author and editor. Musical Director of CSB Academy Band. Terrible trombonist.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

RISHI SUNAK HAS CALLED A GENERAL ELECTION FOR 4 JULY.

It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

My new blog post - "Cognitive Load Theory: An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction" - dissects another dubious effort to undermine progressive education by invoking the magic phrase "science of learning." (Warning: footnotes galore!)
https://t.co/itTjsH6KC8

[Sage Education @SageEducation]

Just Published: Introduction to Primary Teaching by @DrColinForster

Get your copy: [https://t.co/AsbyRwOqTO](https://t.co/AsbyRwOqTO "‌") #education #primaryteacher

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

“'I’m so proud of my worksheets'..... said no learner ever."
-Joe Bower

[Sue Cowley @Sue_Cowley]

More word soup from @Ofstednews as I read this review. What does this bit even MEAN? 🤷‍♀️

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

In 36 hours, Earth’s shadow will temporarily be cast onto our moon, creating a lunar eclipse. When the moon is completely covered, it will take on a red hue: the projection of thousands of sunsets onto the lunar surface. Here’s one of my captures from a previous eclipse.

[Uni of Glos Education @UoGEducation]

Now with 2000 views: Questioning the role of questions by @DrColinForster, @JudePenny2 @BAPrimaryUSW @UoGPriScience
and @RussShalofsky: https://t.co/G2JM6gamkn .

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Stories emerging that in the scuffles taking place in the lobby yesterday, slabs of tofu were flung to the floor.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

*cough* Coalition of Chaos *cough*

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

A turning point in The Telegraph? Project fear was right and ‘if anything have underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing and the scale of the damage that six years of policy confusion and ineptitude has imposed on the country.’ https://t.co/aGnlzS1CLs

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

🤡

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

If committed Lib Dem Liz Truss had decided in her twenties to infiltrate the Conservative Party in order to become leader & screw it up from the inside, how exactly would she have behaved differently over the last month?

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Gove on Brexit: “I ask myself all the time 'was it the right thing to do'"

Bit late now, Michael. https://t.co/I9hU858GUu

[Andy Williams 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @cheltandy]

Meanwhile in Gloucester. The Tories are campaigning to improve literacy standards.

[Nicola Sturgeon @NicolaSturgeon]

Ranting about an imaginary ‘anti growth coalition’ is just an attempt to obscure the hard reality that the biggest brake on UK growth is Brexit - and that’s on the Tories.

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

New: Pause “destructive” teacher training reforms, DfE urged, after new survey finds more than three quarters of teachers say their training was good or excellent https://t.co/Y8uaCaHd2v
YouGov survey of >1,000 teachers finds 77 per cent viewed their teacher education as gd/xlent

[Julian Smith @JulianSmithUK]

The first job of an MP is to act in the interest of their constituents & in the national interest. We cannot clap for carers one month & cut tax for millionaires months later.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Here’s something for @UoGEducation BEd and PGCE students to mull over.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

One underlying theme of all rewards and punishments is power since they're used by those who have it to control those who don't.
Another, less obvious premise is mistrust: Those who rely on bribes or threats are assuming the recipients will respond only to extrinsic inducements.

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Kwasi Kwarteng wants more people on UC to work. Most of us do, the reason we only do so many hours is we can’t afford childcare. So you could sanction me during a #CostOfLivingCrisis. My partner died and I’m trying my fucking best but you penalise me for being a single parent.