I marked for the AQA again this year (English Literature) and here are some takeaways for what successful students did when navigating paper 2.
First up - modern prose:
This week you:
Kept them safe
Made them laugh
Helped them learn
Made them better
Modelled kindness
Supported their needs
Showed them something new
Helped a colleague
Made someone smile
Were good enough
Did more than you realise
This week you made a difference.
Whatever choice you’ve made as a teacher today, it will have involved some tough decisions.
We all want the same things - schools funding properly and this brilliant profession to remain an attractive career for people.
We’re all still colleagues…and that really matters.
Here's why more than 90% of @neunion teachers voted to strike, and why there are such desperate shortages of teachers in important subjects. At the end of the Labour government in 2008/9, teachers were paid 1.67 times the national average salary. Today they are paid 1.41 times...
Today I asked Y10 why those in poverty, in Victorian Britain, might struggle more at Christmas. We had just read the charity collectors section from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There responses showed maturity and sensitivity far beyond what people expect of 14/15 year olds 1/-
Late at night on 4-5 November 1605, Guy Fawkes was arrested with matches in his pocket near a large stash of gunpowder hidden under Parliament.
Discover the references to the Gunpowder plot that echo throughout Macbeth. https://t.co/4UW3hO7yap
So lovely to hear Y9 students greeting other walkers with a friendly 'good morning' or 'good afternoon' as we walked through the beautiful Lancashire countryside today on DofE
#stgeorgesblackpool#DofE#bronzeaward
I'm just going through the responses to an anonymous learning survey I did with my Year 8 (Year 7 in England). This is the most useful teaching feedback I think I've ever had: