Ian Morrison

Assistant Headteacher: Teaching & Learning

[Mark McCourt @EmathsUK]

NEW BLOG: The Birthday Effect

https://t.co/5gAqe5lsyi

[Michael Chiles 🌍 @m_chiles]

***GREAT TEACHING FRAMEWORK***

Over the last few months we have been working on developing our great teaching framework to ensure every student experiences consistently high quality teaching.

Our framework has four key drivers of excellence:

✅ Subject knowledge
✅ Relationships
✅ Routines
✅ Hard Thinking

The framework has six principles, key components and linked techniques from @WALKTHRUs_5, @teacherhead, @olicav and TLAC @Doug_Lemov. We have mapped the techniques to the Great Teaching Toolkit.

For each technique, we have codified what it means and our teaching and practice labs CPD sessions allow staff to get it, see it and try it.

We then use @Steplab_co for our coaching model to keep it, fit it and continue to try it through deliberate practice.

#TheLongdendaleLegacy #GreatTeaching

[Neil Almond-Doherty @Mr_AlmondED]

I reckon 6 of these are used every school in England.

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

The first edition of the Deans' for Impact "Science of Learning" document was hugely influential on me. Very excited to see a second edition published - all teachers should read this!

H/T @New_Old_Paul

https://t.co/Me2uJ9TBkK

[Joel Kenyon @joel120193]

New Blog Post 📝

Revision.

It is seemingly a thing that every teacher feels like they need to do for their pupils to be successful.

But why? If you've taught it well, why do you need to do anything? Surely its now their responsibility?

Link Below

[Joel Kenyon @joel120193]

New Blog Post📝

For years I have had my PowerPoint and at the start of my career it was my crutch I found it difficult to deviate from.

Now, I have changed my planning and found less of a need to stress over a PowerPoint.

Link Below 👇

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

New Post!

In many classrooms, lots of students aren’t listening, which means they aren’t learning. In this post we outline a few common mistakes and simple techniques for building classrooms where ALL students expected to participate.

Please share if you can, link in reply 🙏

[Adam Robbins @MrARobbins]

I did a blog!
On wordpress 😲

It's about why your September T+L priority has probably failed by now.

I know; the audacity!!

Happy Easter!

Link below

[Lynsey White @Ms_L_White]

New blog post…Inclusion cannot mean tolerating behaviour that harms the education, safety, or dignity of others.

https://t.co/EpasQYtKoa

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

New post: Are book looks a waste of time?

For some, they are a meaningless scourge. For others, they are a vital accountability lever that provides insight into the lived curriculum.

Read on for more, and please share if you can!

Link in reply

[Kat Howard @SaysMiss]

School Improvement | Multiperspectivity
https://t.co/6lFPytorAC

[Mark Enser 🌍 @EnserMark]

*** NEW POST ***

Quality assurance often creates workload without clarity. In my latest Substack, I explore why common QA approaches fall short and how schools can design QA that is purposeful, subject-led and genuinely improves teaching.

https://t.co/hV7xSksXRf

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

New post!

On removing students from lessons, and the pain and angst it brings.

Link in reply, please share if you can :)

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Instructional Coaching is everywhere at the moment, but is it all it's cracked up to be?

In this post, I explore eight reasons why Instructional Coaching often doesn't work.

Link is in the reply, please share if you can 🙏🙏

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

NEW POST FROM ME

Roll up, roll up, for the Greatest Do Now Ever™️

[Kat Howard @SaysMiss]

**NEW BLOG POST**

Quality of Education | Generalists and Specialists

For colleagues keen to develop their Trust or School strategy around developing the quality of education in classrooms, with a particular focus on developing subject leadership.

https://t.co/aRflVAYkLX

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

This week's edublogs that I've seen and enjoyed 👇👇👇

Please do share and subscribe if you can - writing blogs is an intensive process and authors need encouragement or they will stop!

The "I already do that" series had me at the title. SO OFTEN people tell me "I already do that" when it comes to some technique or strategy, but implementation is everything, and details matter. Lovely stuff on how to implement retrieval practice: https://t.co/csWSwSbD7g

Another corker from leadership blogger Lynsey White: "High-performing organisations don’t just increase ambition; they master the pace at which their system can absorb change." https://t.co/DMuxzwDDbp

Adam Robbins once again show how a true breadth of knowledge results in blogs that are interesting, different, and useful. This one on Adlerian psychology and how it can make you feel less stressed: https://t.co/nq91CP42YK

Michael Pershan is one of my all-time favourite bloggers, and in this longish-read he looks at claims that America's educational outcomes are declining, and picks at all the relevant variables. A masterclass in thoroughness, and not jumping to surface explanations. https://t.co/xlEXb9YFbK

I blogged as well this week, and you can check out my stuff on Teaching, Learning and Leading here: https://t.co/ybu2w6TiD9

[Katie Perry @KP4Stones]

If you're SLT looking to find a way to benchmark your school using the new framework, we have a benchmarking tool in place which utilises the evidence gathering statements & summative judgements around grading from the toolkit. DM me if you'd find it useful. #edutwitter

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

New article I’ve just published in Royal Society of Chemistry @RSC_EiC looks at building a culture of hard work in the classroom. How can we ensure two key moments where student effort often dips, builds culture instead?
1. Independent work
2. Homework
https://t.co/rLzQomp9mF

[Tes magazine @tes]

Attempting to motivate students with warnings like ‘you won’t get a decent job without good GCSEs’ can backfire, writes @mr_englishteach, who shares alternative approaches
https://t.co/BntTBXKYJc