TTL Physics

Head of Science at London school | MA Science Education (IOE)

[Adam Boxer (offline) @adamboxer1]

"Don't interrupt me"

*incessantly interrupts*

"Let's have the debate"

*Completely ignores the points raised and changes the topic*

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

The debate around subject knowledge and pedagogy for teacher efficacy mirrors the debate around student subject knowledge and transferable skills like creativity. You cannot be an effective teacher, no matter how good your pedagogy, if you don’t know what to teach; what to correct; what needs to come next. Effective pedagogy *requires* high levels of subject knowledge. It embodies it. Like being skilful requires content.

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

@adamboxer1 @NewboldRj Pun intended?

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

@RBrockPhysics July definitely works best but if it was any other time too, probably Oct-Nov.

[Dr. Anthony Hoyle @HoyleDoc]

Of roughly 3500 schools in the UK, 1699 of them are looking for a Science teacher 😬 The recruitment & retention crisis continues. #edutwitter #teachertwitter

[Dave McPartlin @dave_mcpartlin]

THE CALL

Imagine having a really important interview that you’ve prepared years for and you badly want to ace. You’ve worked as hard as you could and have committed your life to it.

Imagine every night going to bed, wondering if it’ll be the next day. But it doesn’t come that next day, the next month or even the next year. The pressure builds and you start to jump when the phone goes between 10am-12pm every day, ready to drop everything for the interview to start.

Imagine knowing that when it finally does come that there’s a good chunk of luck involved and it’ll depend on who interviews you on that day and what they happen to focus on and see.

Imagine praying for one of the good interviewers but you end up with one of the bad ones, who doesn’t listen and has their own agenda but there’s nothing you can do about it.

Imagine it leaves you in pieces and everyone know it’s not fair, but, so be it, and all that will now come your way.

Imagine knowing that that you can’t tell anyone the outcome of the interview, and you have to carry that around, on your own, for what feels like forever.

Imagine what that does to a person.

Imagine a better way.

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

@ChrisMStapleton It was an external careers/employability session on Teams 😵‍💫

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

Oh no, it’s happened to me.
It’s 2023 and I’m sitting through a talk encouraging the use of VAK learning styles 🤢

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

Imagine getting Outstanding for quality of education and sixth form and not getting Outstanding overall!? And the report itself does not sound like anything other than Outstanding.

[Institute of Physics @PhysicsNews]

As Katharine Birbalsingh steps down as the government social mobility tsar, a thread on girls, physics & the devastating effect of stereotypes.

Girls are not put off physics because of "hard maths" (girls got more top grades than boys in A level maths in 2021 & 2022). Instead,

[Harriet Agerholm @HarrietAgerholm]

Just how hard is it to get an NHS dentist? We tried to find out by calling about 7,000 practices across the UK to see if they are taking on new patients. It was A Lot. Here’s what we learned… 🧵

[Ian White @ianwhite21]

THREAD: I make mistakes every day. As do all SLT teams I’ve worked under and in. Here are some of the most common SLT mistakes I’ve noticed.

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

Explained to some students today what a cheeky Nandos is.

I can retire happy.

[Claudia Lewis @MBDscience]

https://t.co/Y3M1fbmNpK

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

1. ‘Instead of obsessing over teaching science, let’s teach children how to be amazingly clever scientists, like me.’ This whole article is a greatest hits of witless progressivism, and a dictionary definition of the Curse of Knowledge. https://t.co/vFWdU0RfN0

[Simon Flynn @flynn_simon]

Here's how last year's A level entries break down by gender, which gives much greater food for thought. https://t.co/Q2Bls109SL

[TTL Physics @TTL_Physics]

Now imagine if we sort out the gender imbalance!

[David Robert @staffdb66]

Current A level Subjects by 'popularity' 2020/21 - taken from gov data

1) Maths
2) Psychology
3) Biology
4) Chemistry
5) History
6) Sociology
7) Physics
8) English Lit
9) Business Studies
10) Economics
11) geography
12) Gov + politics

[David Robert @staffdb66]

Current A level Subjects by 'popularity' 2020/21 - taken from gov data

1) Maths
2) Psychology
3) Biology
4) Chemistry
5) History
6) Sociology
7) Physics
8) English Lit
9) Business Studies
10) Economics
11) geography
12) Gov + politics

[James Williams @edujdw]

@DresswellUK