Their Lightbulb Moment

team at Their Lightbulb Moment! creates knowledge-based resources for English and Psychology and conducts private tutoring.

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

Congratulations to all who received results today! Just completing courses is an impressive feat this year!

[Andy @__codexterous]

My tips for GCSE teaching in one Tweet

1) Masses of modelling
2) Booklets
3) Retrieval (but make it English-y)
4) Prioritise authentic student response
5) Whole class feedback
6) What, How, Why
7) Think about what the text does, not what the author thinks
8) Make it granular

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

Good luck (and congratulations!) to all KS5 students receiving results today! It was a tough year to work through, and you should be immensely proud if you gave it your all!

[Tes magazine @tes]

Despite the recent rise in school absence, schools are not being asked to provide @educationgovuk with figures for Covid-related absence in the last week of term, @tes understands
https://t.co/H5GdAnbweT

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

@amy_smith117 @Team_English1 @mrs_denglish @MissCPEnglish Great conference today; we bought some new books to expand help support our tutees under your recommendation. So a big thank you from us! #CPD

[Claudia Lewis @MBDscience]

"CogSci takes the magic out of teaching".
There is no magic. I'm a teacher, not a flipping wizard.

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

Due to popular demand, we have added some more resources to our English Functional Skills collection! https://t.co/M3rkdwr5bn

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

For a country that is desperately struggling to keep teachers in the profession, perhaps we shouldn't be talking about extending the school day ❌

[Heidi Drake 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @mrs_denglish]

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Still some of the additional tickets available for this. It will be my first time ‘hosting’ so apologies in advance for any technical issues with how it goes. And there is a chance that the 3 year old might make a random appearance!

[James Hall @JamesHallTeach]

Our growing department 'library' - line managers setting mentees pedagogical or subject reading every week or so in line with action steps and/or department priorities to discuss during coaching. Currently working through 'Why Don't Students Like School?' with my three mentees.

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

Should primary schools drop the spelling tests? https://t.co/EbhxAoTm7I

[Matt Burnage @MJBurnage]

I actually think the JCQ guidance is brilliant, because I now have concrete examples of why level descriptors don’t work for every subject

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

Absolutely! Differentiation so often becomes restricting knowledge from 'low ability' pupils. Then how are these children ever going to become 'high ability' ?

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

"Students receiving special education services often make more academic growth during a single school year than their typically abled peers, but are at substantially higher risk of losing ground during summer break."

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[Belgian Bob Cavanagh @RSG_Bob]

Although I really like teaching using my visualiser I find that occasionally switching to board work is valuable. It switches the focus of the Ss to a different media and they are instantly attentive. So I save it for really important stuff. And I keep it short and sweet.

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

@jshmtn Or by people who have read the relevant literature about effective marking!

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

@PrimaryDHT_Mum Good luck from us! 👏

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

We had trouble getting through on one of our Y11s today. The final hurdle of evidence gathering, and we had no creative juices flowing. So we cracked out a Dungeons and Dragons kit: behold, quite the nail-biter was woven!

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

Big fan of our 100 Question An Inspector Calls quiz on TES? No fear - we have a knowledge organiser on the way! #ShamelessAdvertisement

[Their Lightbulb Moment @TheirLightbulb]

There's a fair bit of talk today about school how long school lunches should be. Many schools have lunch breaks that are less that what would fly in an office! When will we stop treating children like adults?