Dr William H Kitchen

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics//
Educational Philosopher//
Author & Educational Commentator// Personal Account// Views my own

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@CharlieCurrie12 Strong counter argument 💪

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

SF, by Danny's logic, therefore must "stand with teachers" in NI but stand against them in RoI, where this legislation is in place.
Strike action cannot be allowed to be a free-for-all. It needs sensible legal protections to curtail militant trouble-makers from causing harm.

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

🔥 “You either stand with teachers or you don’t.”

@danielbakersf on attempts by the DUP Education Minister to push through a bill that would sanction teachers for taking strike action.

We will continue to be the voice of teachers and stand up for their rights.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@CharlieCurrie12 Ok, so we therefore know that your view is that the right to strike supercedes all other rights.
Including, presumably, the state's right to ensure children are safe in schools, and that the education they are receiving is one of quality.
No right is claimed without consequences.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@petergates3 @DanaPalubiak You cannot be serious? Surely?

[Brendan Lee @learnwithmrlee]

A Masterclass on Responsive Teaching
In this clip, Karina Stocker breaks down a major misconception about explicit instruction and explains how guided practice is supposed to be a dynamic, live experiment.
When students respond, that is your cue to make an immediate, real-time decision:
🔹Do you fade your prompts and release responsibility?
🔹Or do you step back in with more scaffolding because you moved too quickly?
The doing is the learning. We ned to stop following the script blindly and start responding to the learners in front of us.
Listen to the full episode 👇
https://t.co/uxD6vzMg3u

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

Shock.

[Olivia Mullins @oliviajune82]

Wow look at the differences in learning with age and varying levels of guidance. Explicit instruction did the best overall but 2nd and 3rd graders learned basically nothing with discovery and 2nd learned nothing with guided inquiry. Chen & Klahr 1999

[Richard Bullick @RichardBullick1]

An insight into the background to Northern Ireland’s education reforms #TransformED

https://t.co/OXyXXuprc5 @Inner_Drive @paulgivan @Education_NI @lucy_crehan @daisychristo @buckingham_j

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

Gerry got a pay rise, too.
Solidarity from the sidelines.
Gerry also opposes TransformED, a reform which will reduce teacher workload by centralising previously individualised work.
But sound bite politics is what Gerry does.

[Gerry Carroll @GerryCarrollPBP]

Teachers, education assistants, kitchen staff, caretakers, principals and everyone working in Education are doing everything possible to provide the best education to everyone in our community.

@NASUWT_NI @INTOnews @NAHTnews

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@CharlieCurrie12 Nope. Not even close.
Rights work hand-in-hand with responsibilities.
Trade Union laws cannot and should not be boundless. It's absurd.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@squinteratn If you aren't willing to remove the option of refusing safeguarding inspections and basic accountability measures from the table when you explore your right to strike and what it entails, you're a militant trouble-maker.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@hayeser833 @squinteratn You seem nice.
Incidentally, I'm all for workers' rights. I'm also for fair pay. I influenced the decision, actively, to get beginning teachers fair pay.
I'm also for responsibilities. Rights are not boundless. We have to be sensible in what a robust rights framework looks like.

[InnerDrive @Inner_Drive]

Getting students to work independently sounds great in theory…

but without the right strategies, it usually just turns into guesswork

This breaks down how to actually build it into learning 🧠
https://t.co/rNqfMcZ0cO

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

Ridiculous.

[Robbie Meredith @robbeorn]

@NAHT_NI are also balloting for industrial action over workload for school leaders. #education

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

Ridiculous.

[Robbie Meredith @robbeorn]

The NASUWT teaching union are to ballot members in NI on industrial action over what they say is the failure to tackle increasing workload for teachers: #education

https://t.co/hcpkHWYwW7

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@annie_mcginley Take the day off, Annie.
Sensible people are having a serious conversation, here.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

If Sinn Fein were successful in achieving a United Ireland, they would end up in a country which permits the prosecution of teachers who fail to comply with School Inspections, where it's a statutory obligation.
Are NI's children less important than those in RoI to Sinn Fein?

[Steve Hare @sharemath]

In 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯, Stanislas Dehaene—one of the world’s leading cognitive neuroscientists and winner of the Nobel-equivalent Brain Prize—identifies the 4 Biological Pillars of Learning. Without all 4 of these pillars in place, learning is fragile and will not last: 🧵

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@RemoveTheRoom Exactly this.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@CharlieCurrie12 @C_Hendrick @DTWillingham Always have.
And always will.
Unions are about social justice; protecting transparency and fairness. They've lost sight of that. They think they are kings.
Ironically, they've become as obsessed with power as those they were set up to fight against.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

More absolute drivel from Seamus.
Has he even read TransformED?
I AM a teacher, and this is the most wide-ranging reform process in a generation.
Children will benefit massively.
Just ask @C_Hendrick and @DTWillingham about how impressive this reform agenda is here in NI.

[Dr William H Kitchen @DrWHKitchen]

@CharlieCurrie12 @C_Hendrick @DTWillingham I was the school lead for NASUWT, yes.