Meg 🏳️‍🌈

Mum of twins|English Teacher|she/her| LGBT+|

Views expressed are entirely my own

[Bookmark Reading Charity @BookmarkCharity]

Happy National Shakespeare Day! 💭

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

I'd just like to let you know that I'm still immensely enjoying slipping The Last of Us references into my KS3 Dystopian Fiction lessons 😍😅 #tlou #TheLastOfUsHBO @BellaRamsey #englishteacher #teaching #lovemyjob

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

Same! I came from a single sex school with a complex after a horrible experience. Year 9 have out done themselves & are so mature & protective of me. I have faith in my young people ❤️

[H Coull @hccoull]

Pupil: Mrs Coull are you married?
Me: Yes I am
Pupil: Who to?
Me: My wife
Pupil: nodded and carried on with their maths

For years I worried about being asked a question like this. Today I’m happy I was asked because visibility matters #pride #LGBTQIA #flourishandsucceed

[Joe Kinnaird @josephkinnaird]

One of the underrated aspects of teaching is how funny students can be.

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@Team_English1 @MrTs_NQTs #EnglishTeacher I haven't yet found a DIRT lesson that works for me &the kids. Has anyone got a strategy that works for them that I can try? #marking #Feedback #learning @SPryke2

[Advocate GOAT @theDRAMAgoat1]

You're allowed to be upset with the fact that you feel like you can't teach because you're too busy attempting to manage behavior w no support. It's bullshit & a lack of parenting and consequences are absolutely at fault. You can only do so much as 1 person. #WhyTeachersQuit

[#yourdailyfred @yesthatteacher]

I just don’t know if I will get over this new things that my students do, since the pandemic started, where I give instructions for what they should do, tell them to do it, and then they. Just. Don’t. They just sit there until I individually prompt them.

[Secret Headteacher @secretHT1]

Everyone: It must be so lovely being in a school at Christmas time.

Teachers: Come and see. Just come and see the carnage.

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@Team_English1 Y10 really struggle with Lang P1 Q4. I've gone through splitting the quote, searching for evidence, using the bullet points etc and they are still coming up blank. Anyone got any successful lessons?! 🙏🙏

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

/3 I feel like a rubbish teacher. When I followed PD with one she said "the others are all talking" she's right but I can't manage them all when I can't get them quiet at the same time. Advice appreciated 😖☹️

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@Behaviour_Guy @BehaviourMentor @tombennett71 I have a Y9 class who I share with HoD, I see them twice a week every other week. I am struggling with room management. They are a good group for him, I've observed him and he has a lovely relaxed manner and he follows the PDpolicy /1

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

/2 I had them today and mirrored how he managed them, similar routines and language, same expectations. They were rude, talking over me etc. There is a core group who do this and others in the room sit and wait for me to manage them and get them back on task.

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

Now I've got kids, I make so many more calls to my younger brother about Minecraft than I ever thought I would when we're both in our 30s 🤣😂
#motherhood #Siblings #minecraft #noclue

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@WhistleblowingT I am so sorry you feel like this. It sounds like the setting? Please don't throw the hat in so soon. You need to be boundaried and outline achievable goals that ensure you have time for yourself. Also share resources. Communicate with wider community. Say No.

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@MissCoope @MrTs_NQTs @tombennett71 Ah yes, we have found that our Y8 are tricky school wide too. I feel for them as we think it's the impact of COVID and the time they have missing from education 🤔

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@MissCoope @James50000177 @WhistleblowingT @MrTs_NQTs You are not off loading. They are SLT and being on duty they'd expect calls. Also you're showing the young person that we are a team and you have the support of your team mates.

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@MissCoope @MrTs_NQTs @tombennett71 Catch them around school. Remember their names, say hi. If they're missing from your lesson chase it up, tell them you missed them. Mostly, just reads Tom's book. You are not alone 👍

[Meg 🏳️‍🌈 @MrsJ_eduEnglish]

@MissCoope @MrTs_NQTs I have that class too! Mine are Y8. I have read @tombennett71 "Running the Room" and it's invaluable. Lean on those more experienced around you. Communicate with the wider school community, SLT, HOYs, Form Tutors. Communicate with home, phone calls both positive and negative.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Often when I'm thirsty at night, rather than go downstairs for a glass of water I put my mouth to the bathroom tap and drink from there. I have no idea whether this is common or not, and I'm too scared to ask anyone in case its abhorred