Peter Tobin

Teacher and author of Amazon best-selling revision guides ( with an interest in how we educate, why we educate and where society's going

[Mr Bruff @MrBruffEnglish]

If you love poetry, please join me in pre-ordering this collection.

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

My brilliant friend @HazelWarrenSLT is publishing a collection of her poems (which are also brilliant). If you want to read excellent poetry and support a hard-working poet pre-order now at https://t.co/nHp77ZPOk8

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

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[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

Contradictions in evidence https://t.co/om56If8fT1

[Darren Chetty @rapclassroom]

When transparency, fairness, and thoroughness are dismissed as bureaucratic we should be concerned.

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@MrBruffEnglish I think I'm with you on this @MrBruffEnglish.

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

only apply the skills to the texts they've studied or regurgitate what they've learned by heart. https://t.co/PpAA8f7q43 (2/2)

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

I was thinking about this just today! The curriculum intentions are often valid - students need to be able to analyse, interpret, compare etc. But these then become watered down when filtered through the exam boards and then they school narrows them further so they can (1/2)

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Government eyes potential route out of negotiation deadlock in Brussels, by simply revoking Theresa May’s citizenship.

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

I think what we call "leisure" today is actually just consumption. https://t.co/qgGJL9gr3E

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Having very little free time is linked to being less satisfied with life, writes @jpinsk. But having too much has downsides as well.
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[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@AlistairNic @Miss_Snuffy Sounds like you got the culprit then! Case closed! Hopefully the HOD wasn't a bad teacher too or we wouldn't know whether we were coming or going

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@AlistairNic @Miss_Snuffy the lens of input/output, value added etc. ignores the vast majority of what happens day in day out in schools across the country. (3/3)

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@AlistairNic @Miss_Snuffy whether teaching is good or bad by results in summative assessment then it would appear that teachers who were incredible under the old English GCSE specification and particularly IGCSE had suddenly become terrible inder the new (9-1) spec. Looking at education through (2/3)

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@AlistairNic Thank you!

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@AlistairNic @Miss_Snuffy deeper question is also - what's the purpose of it. (3/3)

[Peter Tobin @Edulytical]

@AlistairNic @Miss_Snuffy relationship you have with a plumber who repairs your washing machine or the dealer who sells you a car but the research shows that relationships matter a great deal in educstional success. Schooling and educational "success" are complex and nuanced and i suppose the (2/3)