Mr Deld

Biology teacher, evidence-informed, coffee-fuelled. Also a dad.

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@MissWadden @OCR_Science @OCRCustSupport Not sure what the actual answer is but I reckon you'll find most of the exambuilder questions and mark schemes on https://t.co/yArVU0dMgr. Have to cut them out of pdfs if you want specific ones but better than nothing?

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@Stagecoach_West the app must be playing up - says 16:48 65 from Dursley - Stroud is due at 17:48. Do you know when it is actually due?

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@HowardTreesong @TeachMeMFL @adamboxer1 As a science teacher, I would both a) not feel confident in telling an e.g. English teacher what activities to use, how to assess understanding of English, and b) be very doubtful these criteria were meaningful proxies for learning in every (any?) subject

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@Stagecoach_West 65X at 7:13 from Stroud appears to be a no-show *again* despite nothing on here or the app. Makes Stagecoach look pretty ridiculous. @StroudDC @Siobhan_Baillie @stroudnews what is being done about the failure of public transport in 'green' Stroud?

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@Stagecoach_West any clues where the 65X from Stroud might be today?

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@ASBOTeacher @UnofficialOA Definitely this. We have a dishwasher but I still end up doing a load or two of washing up each day, and that builds up fast if things aren't going well!

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@MissgsScience @PrestonsGamers This person knows their 2-player games. My wife and I also enjoy Sushi Go!, Ticket to Ride, and Dominion, which all take more players if you have friends round.

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

Things I find cool: people at our local park feed the ducks seeds, not bread

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

Great balanced thread on tracking the speaker

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Life beyond school is not kind to people who cannot behave well socially. School is the place where we can help scaffold an understanding of civility and manners in a supportive environment. That’s why we need consequence systems; to teach consequences, safely.

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@MBDscience Clearly a charred skull with a swarm of bees coming from its mouth

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@edmunds_dr If you removed every instance of 'thermal' from this, I wonder if any of the meaning would be lost? It seems like it would still make sense and be in line with current teaching of stores/transfers

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@Hidden_Story1 @BenyohaiPhysics Most jobs require around 1 months notice. You seem to be proposing that teachers would face up to 9 months notice to leave a job. I'm curious how that can be seen as reasonable?

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

There are all these breathless essays to explain the teacher shortage.

Every single real life teacher I’ve talked to that’s leaving gives the same explanation: worsening student behavior.

Make of that what you will. It needs to be said.

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

Y9 test question: "Why does snow have less friction than concrete?"

Are we expecting students to know that some of the snow melts to form a film of water?? Genuinely not sure what the mark scheme would be for this without looking

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@Behaviour_Guy I'd find this funnier if our school leaders weren't trying to use PPA time to plug staffing gaps

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@ShakinthatChalk @ASBOTeacher @effortfuleduktr Actually, that is the only thing I think we should be teaching for. If students can't recall something we have taught from their memory, then our teaching has been a complete waste of time.

[Miss Terri @TerriTips]

@MrGunessee85 @RogersHistory @HecticTeacher Morning y10. No, I’m afraid I haven’t marked your work this time because a random stranger thought it would be a shameful thing to do in public. Talk amongst yourselves and I’ll mark it now. 🤣😬

[Mr Deld @mr_deld]

@CMooreAnderson I'm not sure we all agree on the same meaning for knowledge and understanding.

I don't see a meaningful difference between a student knowing that answer Y goes with question X, and a student knowing how Y relates to A,B,C, other than quantity of connections

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@effortfuleduktr Yes. It’s odd how teachers are really in the memory business - every teacher wants their students to remember what they have been taught - and yet, in their preservice preparation, are unlikely to be taught anything about how human memory works.