'I wish my teacher knew' is a lovely book by Kyle Schwartz. Some answers were humorous, others were heart-breaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. A great first day activity. Heather Aird made this handy page to use in the classroom.
Revamping our Macbeth scheme and have used AI to create sketch images of each scene. Thought I’d share here in case they’re of any use to anyone for lessons, displays or revision. Use/ignore as you see fit! https://t.co/yXU7RUj7xW @Team_English1
2026 LANGUAGE EXAM: I shared this series of lessons last year, but I’ve gone back and revised them to reflect the changes to the AQA English Language exam for 2026. Covers both papers. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! @Team_English1 https://t.co/CBoEx657T2
Excited to share, accepted a part-time teaching role for next year. Giving me time to run workshops with pupils on the core themes from my forthcoming book Learning Habits. One person that retweets, likes and follows will win a free full day of workshops for their school
Updated wording on my unit Knowledge Organisers! The idea is to have all the knowledge backwards planned from the assessments and highlight to staff the essentials in the SOL 😄 Template here: https://t.co/rZ4SChkxyo
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Despite best intentions and significant investment, England’s SEND system is failing too many students and their families. To fix it, we need to understand why.
Mega-thread summary of my presentation at #FestivalOfEducation today:
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🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process.
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Adaptive Teaching and Scaffolding
Busy preparing for our CPD golden thread next year by creating a two page overview of the key aspects (this is page 1)
This draws heavily from mine and @MrsBallAP book, The Scaffolding Effect : https://t.co/1etw1ZWYX5
Some literature/language revision lessons I’ve made for the 2025 exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit - help yourselves! @Team_English1
https://t.co/6BGZYuHkdP
Here's a ppt with 27 short audiobooks (15 mins-1.5 hours) available on YouTube (my focus is Y9 but some for younger students too). Thank you to many on edu-Twitter who helped collate this! Let me know if you have more ideas, especially with diverse voices. https://t.co/uH0bO1Kzkd
Okay, she's finished! Since teaching the essay as a piece of writing rather than as unconnected 'paragraphs', our results have been pretty great. Our SEN pupils outperformed our non-SEN pupils for the first time ever this year. However...(A thread)
https://t.co/aPJM280JRA
This is such a generous share and fabulous resource. Thank you! The thread makes clear how powerful it is to teach writing slowly and consistently, with attention to detail, and holistically with lots of examples. It’s the parts and the whole working together.
GCSE language download. Narrative writing planning guide with example questions - for GCSE or IGCSE📚💡
Includes 10 exam style prompts, planning sheets, model plan and narrative writing guide.
Download from KS4 freebies section of my website👉 https://t.co/6JYzL2uASI