Mr Coates

ECT English Teacher in Sheffield. Love a good word.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@raymondchandler @jonpayates I don't want to question your experiences, but were you sent to a school for excluded students? And, do you think you'd have preferred to have been in mainstream education? I've always found that non-specialist schools do not have the resources or logistics to cater for many SENs

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@kaymagpie @Ka81 @Jeff_Pedley This - please don't use ChatGPT to check any sort of facts, especially ones relying on interpretations of the law. It's an amazing tool to generate ideas but asking ChatGPT a question about the law as a layperson is the same issue as a student doing all their homework through it.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@Chrisal32333491 @hutchywraggs @OWTeach4all @Headteacherchat What if a school doesn't have the facilities to keep children safe from the heat? Would it not be irresponsible for them to remain open?

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@Chrisal32333491 @hutchywraggs @OWTeach4all @Headteacherchat Are you giving advice on how to survive the heat while also saying the heat isn't dangerous?

I don't want kids to be terrified of the heat any more than I want them to be terrified of the sea or a mountain - if they're going to experience it we want them to take precautions.

[the moon’s wife @bookishseawitch]

good morning to every english teacher who woke up this morning like “today’s the day I assign a short story that will haunt them till the day they die”

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@gosharewe @AvaSantina Of course taxation is important to government spending - if the government just printed money for its services we'd have even greater inflation and even more problems. If you want to argue that taxation simply removes money, you also accept that the same money is printed again

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@gosharewe @AvaSantina This isn't even pedantry, it's just applying a different perspective in a needlessly reductive and flawed way, like suggesting a car's engine propels the universe around the car which stays perfectly still.

[Andy @__codexterous]

GCSE English Literature Thinking

Encourage students to think about authorial intent *not* in terms of what they might have meant, but what the text does.

For example:

Shakespeare...

— challenges
— warns
— dismantles
— complicates
— subverts
— upholds
— ridicules
— attacks

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@markandersonrun @BenyohaiPhysics @MzMarxRE @missdcox They could possibly be of equal difficulty, maybe, but in practice they're not. Exams are varied, some years are easier than others. Grade boundaries would likely still shift even if pupils weren't marked on a curve. If you dislike the curve, fine! But this isn't the argument.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@Physiassist @nicolajharvey @missdcox PMD might not be enough granularity, but in a similar system with a wider scale you'd still have a demonstrable difference in achievement.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@markandersonrun @BenyohaiPhysics @MzMarxRE @missdcox But the questions aren't the same. Answering 50 easy questions correctly shouldn't award the same grade as 50 hard questions, even if the mark is the same. That's not necessarily reflective of the system, but it makes what you're saying a bit of a non-sequitur.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@desaparicion @Lord_nikon0131 @MerylORourke @KTBrushett @RichardToye I'm only responding to the tweet that says politics don't have a place in the classroom. No need to move the goalposts to change my response to be about the situation in Ukraine.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@Lord_nikon0131 @MerylORourke @KTBrushett @RichardToye Many teachers stay away from discussing politics because it can be fraught and emotional issue, but I think there have to be some teachers that deal with it. How can you not when politics pervade every level of our lives?

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@Lord_nikon0131 @MerylORourke @KTBrushett @RichardToye As a fellow teacher, I think there's a misconception that politics aren't allowed in the classroom. Political opinions should never be presented as fact but there's no harm in discussing views and stating opinions - otherwise you're just creating echo chambers

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@toughtoteach @Team_English1 That's interesting! I still think I'd be very hesitant to call that 'allusion'. Parallels, perhaps?

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[Andy @__codexterous]

A model INTRODUCTION for AIC

1️⃣ All characters serve a function
2️⃣ How so, relevant to the question
3️⃣ The play serves to challenge/warn/attack

Works *every time*

[Kate McCabe @evenbetterif]

T&L morning briefing today on modelling and our school strategy of basic to brilliant. I started off using @rlrossi64 brilliant analogy about starting points. I made the point that despite the difference in support needed, the destination for students is the same.

[Mr Coates @MrCoates4]

@amymayforrester @ProudlyPastoral We should be teaching children the critical thinking that asks not just "what does this say" but also "why are they saying it?" (i.e. because this is a direct response to schoolchildren expressing completely reasonable disappointment in our PM)