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Procrastinator, aspiring amateur baker, trying to remember Twitter is not a diary.

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@temzra @54JohnBull @arnesa_kustura I see what you mean. Fwiw, I believe that you can still have free education up to 19 in the UK, so if you change your mind about your uni course, and need an extra A level, you can get that then, to be able to apply. It’s what my husband did, but this was over 10y ago. 😅

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@temzra @54JohnBull @arnesa_kustura This was shared within my school a few months ago. For many at the moment in the UK, the earnings potential increase isn’t as good as it used to be. (In many ways this is good, as it’s due to better min. wage, but something to bear in mind.)

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I was opening some cards from my Y13s today and several thanked me specifically for introducing @Carousel_Learn this year. One example: “Carousel quizzes are genuinely genius…it has made the biggest improvement in my long term memory.”

Thank you so much for your platform!

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@Wtkn81 @adamboxer1 That’s great, thank you. I definitely do that when it’s feasible :)

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@Wtkn81 @adamboxer1 Do you mind giving an example of what you mean? Do you mean turning the q into multiple choice?

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@Wtkn81 @adamboxer1 For 1x in a lesson, I’m happy to use this, and do (or similar). But I’m struggling w/repeat offenders, in 1 lesson or across them, and it wastes so much time that it also either causes others’ attention to drop or for them to get frustrated and be rude/mean. I see classes 1x /wk.

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@adamboxer1 I’d really appreciate that! I’ve been trying to follow up, ‘Dunno,’ with, ‘What was the question?’ Followed by a reminder that if they’re not listening they’re not learning, and then trying to loop. If it happens 2x in a lesson I’ve done warnings but further sanctions feel weird.

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@adamboxer1 Not sure it is the most recent but one that springs to mind was a blog shared by Craig Barton about delayed answer MCQs being more effective, so, where relevant, I have implemented that basically ever since. https://t.co/iNXBOBXy6V
FLMOP was before this one for me, I think.

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@adamboxer1 That’s why I’m in that 1% 😭
I couldn’t honestly say I do it consistently enough to say I do it consistently.
Doesn’t mean I don’t consistently *intend* to do these things.

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@ScottRagan @adamboxer1 https://t.co/zMiaBclC8y

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What’s a cheesemonger’s favourite Christmas song?
Rocking Around the Christmas Brie
#ChristmasClassics

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@adamboxer1 I have seen a few times, teachers of a shared class (A level or GCSE sci) with one decidedly less dedicated, and the class performs better in their side of the course because they panic and revise more for it. Obviously not this scenario but it makes me wary of different pay.

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@the_UrbanWolf @adamboxer1 I had exactly that happen as an NQT: A student thought she would explode at a peer and ran out of my lesson instead. I didn’t deal with it correctly at the time, but I was lucky - she returned and apologised to me and explained why she did it.
So the right is reciprocated!

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@adamboxer1 There’s also, sadly, getting worse because others’ decisions/diktats mean your time is eaten by tasks that don’t directly impact student outcomes and you are too drained/frustrated so you don’t teach as well as you want to…
Felt it happen last year. Trying to fight it this year!

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@sainsburys I just opened some flour I bought from you recently and it had several bugs in it.

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@adamboxer1 I think it’s also school culture. I only gave a gift to a great teacher b/c he was leaving. He was so good a girl who hadn’t done her hw begrudgingly asked once, ‘Why does he have to be such a good teacher?!’
Where I teach, it’s more of a thing, but it varies across year groups.

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@adamboxer1 Trick question! You were doing hinterland on conservationists and ecologists tracking zebras in a non-invasive way. This is what you did actually say..!

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@Hookean1 I use ‘Jimmy’ rather than my brother, but I use it every year to teach my classes the formula!

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@sainsburys I bought whole milk yesterday and now it curdled in coffee. Also smells off. This isn’t the first time we’ve had issues with your whole milk. The last few times, it has seemed to turn to curds and whey in the bottle. Photo: today’s milk + hot water to show curdling