Jon

English teacher & writer. AHOY. MA, MRes, NPQLT, 25/26. Interested in T&L. Fan of c20th culture & short stories with melancholy Irish people.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday.

These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.

[Ben Rodgers @MrRodgersAHT]

@DavidDidau ❤️ this!

[Jon @JonK860]

@BarbaraBleiman @JayKloppenberg @tes @jon_severs No school discourages ‘reading for pleasure’. But what cannot happen is schools adopting ‘DEAR’ practices instead of targeted interventions for poor readers. They’re not, & shouldn’t be, mutually exclusive things, but
part of a school culture of reading.

[Jon @JonK860]

@RBMersey Literally.

[Jon @JonK860]

@BarryNSmith79 Because not every school is the same.

[Jon @JonK860]

@SecondaryEng This student is clearly bright, but this type of loose context should really be built on a solid, text-based analytical point, no?

[Jon @JonK860]

@blgtylr Wait until the post-structuralists arrive, and you’re in someone’s kitchen at 4am, bleary eyed, talking about a malaise of overlapping discourses.

[Jon @JonK860]

@atptour @AlexZverev Imagine if Zverev stepped in and did that more often instead of pushing everything to infinity and losing in 3 sets.

[Jon @JonK860]

@Lit_liverbird @GCSE_Macbeth I never said they were, each student should always be seen individually. PP students are statistically, on average, vulnerable to attainment gaps & seating pupils via potential for progress (instead of JUST behaviour) is one way to potentially combat this.

[Jon @JonK860]

@OasisArchives @oasis 1. Go Let It Out
2. Stop Crying
3. Little by Little
4. Let There Be Love
5. Falling Down

Noel should not have relinquished songwriting to Andy and Gem and been braver with branching out, as a lot of the post 2000s album songs are just pure filler.

[Jon @JonK860]

@DGoodall9 @FrieslandSchool Hello. Would you be able to share this template by any chance, please? Thank you.

[Jon @JonK860]

@GCSE_Macbeth Mainly years of reading exam reports, marking essays and noting the errors that students often fall foul of and trying to frontload them early in the course. I think organisation is a huge issue, structuring an argument (so modelling how to think and plan).

[Jon @JonK860]

@SnoggsManduzi @90sfootball Yep. It’s not even close.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

In 1913, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a profoundly moving letter to a friend who was grieving for her brother.

[Jon @JonK860]

@Big3Tennis Much rather play Sinner. Djokovic losing three Wimbledon finals in a row to Alcaraz would be some feat: Novak would be Olympics-style motivated.

[Jon @JonK860]

@SinnerAlcaraz Fritz to win the first set (7-6), and then Alcaraz to breeze through the final three sets.

[Chris Webb-Cook @Bowtie_pedagogy]

I have two copies of The Visualiser Handbook to give away.

This is for busy teachers who need concise clarity to make live modelling an effect part of their practice ASAP.

To enter, follow, like and retweet this post and I will draw winners at random on the 18th July.

[Jon @JonK860]

@BarbaraBleiman None of these things are ‘bad’ in themselves, but they’ve lethally mutated thanks to the demands of GCSEs. KS3 should he kept entirely separate. However, prioritising knowledge acquisition & embedding an understanding of literary culture is crucial.