Dean Barber (He/Him)

Ex-Primary School Senior Leader, now Senior Lecturer Practitioner in Primary Education. Passionate about children’s mental well-being & LGBTQ+ inclusion.

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

@DainesPaula 🤣🤣🤣

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Last day of teaching for this trimester today and this is how I’ll be walking around campus. #Wicked 🧙‍♀️

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

So excited to head to Shiz University!!

[Dr Gareth Bates @smashEDITT]

🚨🚨 Are we expecting too much from retrieval practice? I combine data from my research with @englishspecial and Ofsted's science subject report to explore this.

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I am 100% in floods of tears. From the personalised CBeebies bedtime story to this performance. What incredibly brave little girls. The side of teaching you don’t get taught…

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Teaching comes with its highs & lows, and some of the most challenging times come when supporting a child & their family through the unimaginable. I taught lovely Aanya during her mum’s diagnosis & treatment. I am SO excited to see her on @BBCCiN tonight! https://t.co/tCLTamlgML

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The gifts kept coming today, this time from our lovely Level 4 students. How lucky we are to work with such thoughtful students!

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@KayAaronricks Thank you!

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Truly lucky to teach such lovely undergraduate students. I got to spend my birthday today with our Level 6s who bought me a card and chocolates (which were shared before lunch…).

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A very big congratulations to two of our Primary Education Studies students, Thomas and Poppy, who got married last week! 💒💍 @AngliaRuskin @ARU_AHESS

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Today a Year 6 child asked if I’d heard the new KSI song and I was quietly glad they thought I was cool enough to even know who KSI is.

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Here are some of the end products!

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Today our L4 students began learning about the foundations for writing. They engaged in some ‘dough disco’ before using the play-doh to consider how it can be used to develop fine motor skills. @ARU_AHESS @AngliaRuskin #PrimaryEducationStudies #PES

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I’ve had an excellent day with our Level 4 Primary Education Studies students at Cambridge Central Library discussing the importance of libraries and exploring their children’s literature.

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[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Met Lulu at the European premiere of ‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ at the American Express gala at @BFI London Film Festival and honestly, it may have been the gayest night of my year. Not mad about it! Truly great film! @eltonofficial @DisneyPlus

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10 months since completing the PGCert in Teaching and Learning, today was the first face-to-face day on the PGCert in Lead Mentoring for ITT. A very insightful and collaborative start to the course! @AngliaRuskin @ARU_AHESS

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Interested in Primary Education? We are on our Cambridge campus all day. Come and see us in LAB210. @AngliaRuskin @ARU_AHESS @ARUEducation @Nat_Combes

[Dean Barber (He/Him) @MrDBarb]

Me: Great! We have five minutes to do some self-assessment before assembly.
Year 6 child: THERE’S A HUGE SPIDER ABOVE OUR TABLE
Year 6 class:

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

A colleague showed me teacher TikTok today and OH MY GOD 🤯🤯

Literally millions of likes for teachers videoing themselves *in lessons*

Millions of likes for classroom practice that are actively bad for student learning

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