Mr P

Biology Teacher, Asst Curriculum Lead, NPQLT

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

5 ways praise can go wrong in the classroom:

(and how to make it go right for our students)

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[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

10 things: Common problems with Do Now Activities. https://t.co/VrX3StBD91

[Mr P @PearsTom]

@KJF239 @BeaulieuBio Seconded for mackerel. Can usually do a fish head each then, and seem to be fresher when we’ve got them.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

This thread is my favorite illustration of the power of non-examples.

Imagine that a teacher models the meaning of a made-up word, glerm, by waving a green cloth vigorously and saying, "this is a glerm."

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[Mr P @PearsTom]

@ocrexams @chatbiology Thank you!

[Mr P @PearsTom]

@ocrexams we have seen there is a new spec for A level Biology A, assessing 2025. What has changed? We feel this has been under communicated to us… anyone in #chatbiology @chatbiology aware and able to help?

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

School is an staggering success of modern society.

Sure, there's plenty of scope for improvement, but what has been achieved to date is simply remarkable. A thread:

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[Mr P @PearsTom]

@brassoteach Love this, even for the older children! If I’m doing this after a completed set of questions, one of my mentors recommended a back up, ‘can you give me an answer to one you do know?’ which also has helped raise the self-esteem and confidence of students too.

[Mr P @PearsTom]

@DanLee37540347 @KateJones_teach My second name is Pearson, so I get that name on the front of all my books anyway! Am I who you’re looking for?

[Mr P @PearsTom]

A positive way to start third session. Our own assumptions of our memory is usual overly harsh, because we are usually thinking of our working memory. Great to have some retrieval myths busted. @KateJones_teach #ResearchEdWarr2023

[Mr P @PearsTom]

@mrsjmasters Of course! Another example is using it much more quickly give examples. I wanted more examples of discrete data and it gave loads that would have taken far more time if googling. It’s like a far smarter google that you can ask follow up questions to

[Mr P @PearsTom]

Excellent session/analogies from @EfratFurst on how cognitive science provides us with high quality ingredients, but there are far more other aspects to consider to create a learning ‘meal’ for students e.g. motivation, awareness of learning biases #researchEDWarr2023

[Mr P @PearsTom]

Having an excellent time so far at #researchEDWarr2023 . Very thought provoking start from @AlexJQuigley on interrogating the techniques we hear about on a day like today.

[Slava Bobrov @slava__bobrov]

How swallowing works:

[Daniel Bundred 🦡 @DanielBundred]

Introducing a new whole school behaviour policy? This thread will be extremely long, but I hope it will be of some use for anyone considering doing so:

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

New. Can you be bothered?
https://t.co/ehbUXGWYZ6
@adamboxer1 @matthewhood

[Slava Bobrov @slava__bobrov]

How baby grows from an embryo, in 30 sec:

#biology by design.cells

[Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6]

Those anonymous teacher confession/whistleblowing accounts would be less jarring if 9/10 of them wasn’t stuff like ‘a member of SLT came to my house last night and roundhouse kicked my nan. Do I go to my union or just get on with it? I’m UPS3 so is this expected?’

[Mr P @PearsTom]

@WB_Davies Could be warm enough for the grandad collar..?