Colleen 👧🏾

Dipped back into Twitter when Instagram was down🙊 | Previous life: Registered Nutritionist 🍏 | Current life: Secondary Biology Teacher 🧬 & ECT/ITT Mentor🤓

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

2025/2026

*3 ECTs to mentor

*teaching the whole of the KS4 chemistry curriculum for the first time (I’m a biology specialist)

*a year 7 form tutor again - the form I had for five years have now left to spread their post GCSE wings

Let’s do this!!

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

Year 11 form gifts ready at the door to take to school tomorrow. Feel thankful that I was able to see them through from year 7 to year 11 - they’ve made form time a pleasure for the past five years 🥰

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them.

https://t.co/I0TvAVzF8c

[British Dietetic Association @BDA_Dietitians]

Think beyond weight loss as your only health goal - instead think about your overall health and wellbeing, now and into the future 💙

Our dietitian-approved toolkit shares practical tips and ideas we can implement to feel good from the inside out 😊➡ https://t.co/YMN7Rl3tyn

[LSG @LearnLead_]

Anita Archer’s law of explicit instruction: “Teach first, then ask.”

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

If it doesn’t, I don’t think it goes to waste because it’s a great opportunity to review links between different concepts which most 6-mark questions do

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

I’ve just done this today in my after school revision session with mitosis, cancer and coronary heart disease

[InnerDrive @Inner_Drive]

Interleaving might feel tough on your brain 🧠💥, but it’s a secret weapon for better learning! Mix topics to boost memory & strategy skills.

Learn more… https://t.co/tH2ocdwqgN

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

Thank you very much 👍🏾

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

@MissCDCampbell This is the first thing they see as they come in

Time till new knowledge depends on the prerequisite knowledge check. Could be 2 minutes, could be 20.

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

Please can I ask whether this is your ‘Do Now Activity’ or something you do after the DNA activity. Also, how many minutes into the lesson, roughly, do you start teaching the new knowledge. Thank you

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Love starting lessons like this. Spaced retrieval that isn't related to today's lesson, and chosen based on C-Scores, so targeted to areas of student weakness. We then crack out the MWBs to check knowledge that is prerequisite to today's lesson.

[WCRF @WCRF_UK]

People who watch their waistline AND do more physical activity can reduce their risk of cancer a lot more than those doing one or the other, new research shows.
Read more about the findings
https://t.co/r8QTYkXpCv

[InnerDrive @Inner_Drive]

Interleaving might feel tough on your brain 🧠💥, but it’s a secret weapon for better learning! Mix topics to boost memory & strategy skills.

Learn more… https://t.co/tH2ocdwqgN

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

NOTES

‘Great Teaching, Unpacked’ is a 4-part Netflix-style documentary from @Steplab_co > to access, just grab some popcorn and head over to:

→ https://t.co/t0d7Iv8rIF

The docco features:

• 4x 45min episodes (Harnessing Attention, Teaching Behaviour, Securing Success, Embedding Development)
• Accompanying training resources for each episode
• Full (uncut) footage of selected lessons

IMPORTANT
1. Multiple configurations of effective schooling exist—this is only ONE flavour of examples.
2. The goal is not to imitate what you see, but rather to catalyse a conversation about what ‘even better’ might look like in YOUR unique context.
3. Beware CONTEXTUAL BLOCKADE (where we focus on the reasons something won’t work for our context, rather than what we can learn from it).
4. By itself, the docco will not transform teaching in a lasting way—for this, you also need an effective PD system (such as Steplab).
5. Huge gratitude to the schools and families who so generously shared their learning lives—please talk about and share this footage with due respect 🙏

If you do end up watching/using the docco, we’d LOVE to know what you think (and if you have suggestions for improving the site or resources).

🍿

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

I like this!

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🏗️ Scaffolding peer feedback can help make it more supportive, motivating, and actionable. This resource is designed to help students master the process using the KIND, SPECIFIC & HELPFUL framework by @RonBergerEL

🌱 Support my work tapping REPOST and download a FREE high-quality copy here: https://t.co/Xj2XpPGvnu

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

And the teacher is often stressed and unhappy!

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

When a teacher has command of her classroom, it’s orderly, calm, inviting; the kids are happy, productive, engaged in work

When they don’t, it’s chaotic, stressful, loud; the kids are stressed and unhappy.

Adult authority is not oppressive but an essential part of any school

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

The tracking and finger clicking 👌🏾

[Katie Clarke @MrsClarke__]

I am thrilled to be a TLAC @Steplab_co coach at @JPAcademyTipton and had the absolute pleasure of attending a day of TLAC training with @Doug_Lemov @WinAcadTrust. Year 4 - Reading 2/3

[WCRF @WCRF_UK]

You may know that foods containing fibre are good for gut health, but did you know that they can lower your #BowelCancer risk too?

For more ways to include fibre in your diet, download our fibre factsheet: https://t.co/OOyokqekRh

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🔒 SECURING ATTENTION! Students remember what they attend to. This poster summarises strategies that secure attention, ensuring students remain attentive and cognitively engaged throughout the lesson.

🌱 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here: https://t.co/Xj2XpPGvnu

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

👌🏾👌🏾

[Lisa_Lockley @2ndry_Teacher]

@MissCDCampbell I agree… being able to organise and present their notes, ideas & application with precision and pride is important!

[James Fitzgibbon @mrfitzhist]

Students providing definitions is an underrated recall task. This ‘Define 9’ pushes student for interleaved knowledge from last lesson, last topic and last month. Once completed, the class then mark/enhance responses with modelled purple pen answers. #historyteacher

[Colleen 👧🏾 @MissCDCampbell]

A win-win for me is when students take pride in and care about the presentation of their books, and they learn/make progress. I’m quite particular about presentation and think it forms part of their character development within lessons

[Claudia Lewis @MBDscience]

I'm sorry but I just can't make myself care about student books.
If I've got 15 minutes and the choice between making them go through and tag in sheets and underline dates and titles, or teaching them something, I'm going to choose the latter every. single. time.