Lucy

Secondary Maths Teacher 📈

[Daniel Bundred 🦡 @DanielBundred]

One thing I see and hear of a lot with warm/strict is teachers forgetting the warm part. The counter-balance to teachers needing to be firm when firmness is required is teachers needing to be friendly. Teachers not wary greeting students, or even worse 'blanking' them, is toxic.

[Reverend&TheMakers @Reverend_Makers]

What a lovely fella

Well said 👏

[Alex Rawlings @MrARawlings]

CPD on making our modelling more expert.

Love the analogy of passing the baton and the complexity of the 'we do'. Pass it on too late and you slow them down. Pass it on too early and they drop the baton.

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

Why are there so many hugeeee spiders about lately? 🫣

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

(MATHS)!!

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

Question: What GCSE Foundation workbook would be essential to students who have maybe missed some school in the past and are in smaller Y11 classes?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated 😁
Happy Sunday ⭐️

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

@brassoteach When I finished a piece of work for Art once, my Art teacher asked genuinely if I was diagnosed colourblind… I obviously was not 🫠 went on to get A* GCSE marked by her - very odd

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

@hartmaths Thankyou - will implement on my next lesson and reflect after 😊👍🏻

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

Whole day of cover tomorrow as I’m going to the hospital for an appointment, how will my room look when I get back?? 🫣

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

This week in emojis:
Mon 😋 Tues ☺️ Weds 👍🏻 Thurs 🤨 Fri 😢 teaching is so unpredictable.

[Michael Chiles 🌍 @m_chiles]

Start of spring term consistency 👌

Teach to the top 🔝
Scaffold up 🪜
Ask lots of questions ⁉️
Check for understanding 👀
Activate regular spaced retrieval 📂
Provide guided feedback 🔁
Explain with precision 🎯
Model excellence 🔍
Develop self-regulation 🧐

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

Listened tonight while on a quick walk! Loved the contributions 💪🏼 👑

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

It’s happened… the bad dream when none of the students listen to me and chaos descends on my classroom 🫣🫣 first day of ECT2 let’s go

[Teach Secondary @TeachSecondary]

School SLTs – They’re not gods, they’re just colleagues | via @MrsqueenLeese https://t.co/9IgKGd2av1

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

Never wearing heels to school again; felt like a giant and feet hurt. Would not recommend

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

My y7s need to develop better fluency with times tables so I've been making starters like this. They always start with writing down a times table and end with a double number line; the other questions vary but all involve that times table. Simple but effective #maths #iteachmaths

[Lucy @MissLFord1]

I just had the best sleep - thank goodness for half term 🤩

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

Practice *with feedback* makes perfect

Practice *without feedback* makes permanent

[Tracey Leese FCCT @MrsqueenLeese]

So excited to announce that mine and @MrBarkerMaths’ debut book is out 12th May and available for pre-order. Massive thanks to @ViviennePorritt @WomenEd and @Sue_Cowley for all their help. Also @Molly_Routledge and @AnnamarieKiWy for their brilliance. Exciting year ahead