Christopher Suckling

Deputy Head at SVC. English Teacher. My views are my own. A retweet isn’t necessarily an endorsement.

[Helen Reynolds MBE @helenrey]

Another summary!

This time it's the EXCELLENT In Action books - all 11 of them!
Thanks @JohnCattEd @teacherhead.

A Do This blank version available for personal PD/CPD purposes.

Thanks to the authors - see comments.

pdfs here: https://t.co/qopTkhpHiO
#cogsci #cogscisci

[Christopher Suckling @c_suckling]

@tombennett71 @C_Hendrick I wonder. They are both brown. They both have four legs. Is my dining table in fact a grizzly bear? #syllogism

[Christopher Suckling @c_suckling]

@bt_uk Our YouView box keeps going into maintenance mode. It keeps happening during the day when we’re not using it. We do the reset it recommends but keep losing our recordings. It’s getting really annoying because it keeps happening.

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

The SLT-Middle Leader Communication Challenge https://t.co/JA6HlGFNAd

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

Think, Pair, Share is a powerful technique to promote collaborative & productive talk. This summary captures the ‘what?’, ‘how?’ & ‘why?’ of the process & is partly based on blog posts by @teacherhead & @Inner_Drive @BradleyKBusch

Download the PDF here:
https://t.co/to98KgNSv4

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

This is one of the most important things to consider about marking and feedback. This book by @dylanwiliam is an absolutely essential resource for beginning teachers.⬇️

[Oliver Lovell @ollie_lovell]

The thing I like about this article on promoting oracy is that it makes lots of suggestions for oracy practices in the classroom, but then it links to research for each of those strategies too!

Facts on listening comprehension cool too!

https://t.co/3hWDUOpQwj

Ha @natwexler

[George Coles 🏳️‍🌈 @MrColesDrama]

Most teachers say that student behaviour is worst during break and lunchtimes (57% in a recent @TeacherTapp survey).

This was certainly the case at my school so we completely changed our break and lunch routines to sort it out.

Here’s what we did…👇 1/16

[Christopher Suckling @c_suckling]

@CarlyWaterman21 It’s full of so many great insights. He really challenges you to focus on learning, rather than what he calls the “grammar” of teaching.

[Christopher Suckling @c_suckling]

@Miss_Snuffy @Gladwell @matthewsyed University College, Oxford have an online list called “Staircase 12” which I used when doing this with 6th form. Here’s some additions I’d make.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Behaviour Management in a nutshell

[Mary Myatt @MaryMyatt]

The uber gifted @MrGoodwin23 has created this cool graphic of my session for @researchEDWarr

Some of the things that are overrated

And some of the things that are underrated

[Marc Rowland @marcrowland73]

Addressing educational disadvantage: from… | Unity Research School | Here is an article about refining and reviewing our Pupil Premium strategies |⁦@UnityResSch⁩ https://t.co/SBcCOZcaDx

[Sarah Benskin @drBlearning]

Been working on a new homework policy and created an accompanying guide. Thanks to @abowdenj @teacherhead @Dr_Castelino for the book and blogs

[Mary Myatt @MaryMyatt]

Homework effectiveness research

Another helpful post from @NiallAlcock & colleagues

https://t.co/j49ToLIBe0

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Marking. Optimising the impact:workload ratio. https://t.co/cMqSfh9vgf

[Teach Like a Champion @TeachLikeAChamp]

So I thought to myself, what do I want the start of my lessons to look like? Eventually I came up with three things that, in an ideal world, all students in every class would do...

https://t.co/TzMe9lnuyR

[Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach]

What can schools do to improve boys' attainment?

I've been writing and researching this for years, and here's a thread featuring 7 easy(!) steps schools can take to reduce gender gaps:

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Here's a very nice piece by @rpondiscio moving the debate on from "phonics" vs "balanced literacy" by pointing out that what we really need is a "science of reading comprehension" https://t.co/ODKuZYCJ8K