hennahannah

English Lead for a small Trust in South London. Mother of two and devotee of part time leadership. The glass is definitely half full.

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

Narrated ppts of each AQA Lang Paper 1 Q and a WTM with I do, we do, you do approach and embedded video annotations for stds to check their answers. Time to give back to #TeamEnglish! Any feedback appreciated - please be kind, it's my 10% braver move! https://t.co/q3r6bhZB0W

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

One bad set of English results isn’t the end — it’s the turning point.

I can help turn things around with:
🔍 Dept Deep Dives
🎯 Walk-Through Mocks
🖊️ Expert marking & feedback
📚 High-impact training
🤝 Targeted student support

📩 DM me to plan the comeback.

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Today marks the anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s death. The professor certainly knew how to throw a party.

[Amy Staniforth @teachals]

NEW BLOG: on thematic curriculum design in English. Really nervous about this one! A long read (apologies) on how, two years ago, we rebuilt our English curriculum from the ground up. By no means me advocating for a specific approach, but just some thoughts about how we did, and why we did, what we did. Would love to know your thoughts!

https://t.co/awkhSHPJGa

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@LauraLolder I have bought a ticket but don’t seem to have a link to the event- am I missing something?

[Andy @__codexterous]

📚XMAS BOOK GIVEAWAY!📚

In true Twitter fashion, I'm giving away a free copy of my book, Experiencing English Literature.

To enter, just retweet this post!

I'll select someone at random and get it posted ready for some Xmas reading.

[winner to be announced 13 Dec]

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@MaryMyatt @creativeHigg @MannyAwo @cfoleypoetry I’m very excited about this and have registered but not received a link yet. Should I have?

[Barrington Stoke @BarringtonStoke]

🌟SCHOOLS GIVEAWAY🌟 For 25 years, we've been working to empower EVERY child to become a reader. To celebrate our birthday and #DAW23, we're giving away a set of 25 Barrington Stoke books *of your choice!*
To enter, follow and RT by 5pm 8th October. UK schools only. Ts&Cs in bio.

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@MissEmilyK_ Don’t forget to wear insoles too- they’re pretty inflexible and hard soles. I have only just got rid of the plantar fasciitis mine gave me in January.

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

Great points about differences between expert and novice teachers

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Can a good teacher teach any subject? Not really. Expert teachers have highly specialised skills. In fact, even if they're teaching the *same* subject, a lack of domain-specific knowledge will limit effectiveness. Revisiting Berliner's seminal work on expert teaching⬇️

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@HughesHaili OMG WHAT a transformation! You look amazing 🦋

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

Come on! Together, stronger

[Baroness Mary Bousted @MaryWBousted]

All four education unions balloting and re-balloting together. Teachers and school leaders United. Together we will win!

[Dr Lorna Smith @PGCE_English_Br]

Out today 😊Celebrating English as a subject building knowledge of language, of literature, of self, of others, of culture, of cultures, of communities. Retweet by 28.04.23 for a chance to win one of 3 free copies! #teamEnglish https://t.co/amXRnVwbc2

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@mtptproject @NooPuddles 👋🏽 Trust lead for English here and always happy to chat x

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@Tom_Needham_ Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@GauravDubay3 @OneNoteEDU @Xris32 This is such a great idea! I’m slightly worried I’d go overboard and overwhelm the kids- how much is in yours and how do you teach them to use it?

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

Planning for misconceptions is a key difference between novice and expert teachers. Keeping texts the same over several years makes teachers better because it is hard as an expert reader to anticipate misconceptions but experience with a class gives plenty of egs! #Englishhangout

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

Today, more than 50,000 junior doctors begin a 72-hour strike. Why?

🏥 Unbearable workloads and record waiting lists

📉 Real pay down 26% since 2008

🚑 Pay now as low as £14.09 per hour

🩺 79% considering leaving the profession

RT if you’re behind our NHS workers 👊

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

@emma_au_soleil @mtptproject Amazing event Emma, so lovely to see you again after all these years. Looking forward to reading the book!

[hennahannah @hennahannah]

Lots of useful suggestions on this thread

[Christopher Such @Suchmo83]

I'm looking for recommendations for books and texts that KS3 pupils who are struggling with reading can use (above decodable texts) that is suitable to their level of maturity.

Ideas and retweets much appreciated.

[MASSOLIT @massolit]

What Armitage is doing here, I’d like to suggest, is showing how war poetry transforms ‘real’ war (as represented by the soldier’s authentic narrative) into an aestheticised, stylised, poetic version of war (as represented by the use of lineation, literary allusions, etc.)