mrmarktaylor

vice-principal East London Science School; Liberal Arts and Great Books programme leader; international universities lead; History and Ethics teacher

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Great visit yesterday by Rob Jackson of US Great Hearts and Matt Post of UDallas. Highlight was discussing philosophy as a public endeavour with our Year 9 class where private definitions of mud, paper and love were (almost) clarified! @elss_freeschool @GreatHeartsAcad

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

This was a useful discussion - I realised education as a brilliant and intellectually distinctive idea for all children still needs defending. This previously self-evident idea has withered away in all of the far too evidence-based manifestos @elss_freeschool

[Richard Woolfenden @eclectictrains]

https://t.co/HF4SxETU9V
Should students be involved in the debates around the General Election? What are the main parties saying about education in the General Election? Are the OFSTED reforms a positive development?
@dperks @mrmarktaylor13 @elss_freeschool #ge2019

[Richard Woolfenden @eclectictrains]

https://t.co/HF4SxETU9V
Should students be involved in the debates around the General Election? What are the main parties saying about education in the General Election? Are the OFSTED reforms a positive development?
@dperks @mrmarktaylor13 @elss_freeschool #ge2019

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Donatello’s Judith has complicated discussion we have followed the argument from pulpit sculptures of massacred innocents to public statue of murdered Holofernes. @elss_freeschool

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Did Pisano start the Renaissance? If he did, was it Nicola or Giovanni or Andrea? Our year 12 History students are trying to work this out at the V and A Cast Courts, themselves a stunning model of 19th century educational vision @elss_freeschool

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

ELSS school motto is to stand on the shoulders of giants - more than just a job! Enjoyed discussion - let’s carry on conversation and like Michelangelo release your inner hero from the rock - he will make you happy not sad! @BarryNSmith79 @elss_freeschool @jo_facer @Trivium21c

[Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79]

Interesting...really good, good, good enough, going through the motions, in the room but little more, there are all manner of teachers. The romanticised (and v unrepresentative) image of the hero teacher saddens me. Huge & unreasonable expectation.

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Where is Mr Bird now? We need to find the Birdman if he has finished fixing up World War Two sten guns and get him to the Battle! @eclectictrains @Trivium21c @elss_freeschool @BarryNSmith79 @jo_facer

[Teachwire @teachwire]

There’s no single blueprint for a truly great teacher, says Harley Richardson – but they all have one thing in common https://t.co/8QaGR9xSDb

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Maybe we are! Does this kind of big picture educational reform which never seems to happen still count as social justice in the identity era? And are the grammars actually teaching any grammar anyway?
@StaufenbergJ @elss_freeschool @DeBalloonist @teach_well

[Jess Staufenberg @StaufenbergJ]

Meanwhile, are we really going to go through all this with grammar schools again... 😔

https://t.co/gFMqmXsYrX

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Yes I have interesting story if it’s all true seems a case of educational McCarthyism ie do we now have The Ed Scare? @elss_freeschool @eclectictrains @jo_facer @Trivium21c @BarryNSmith79

[Richard Woolfenden @eclectictrains]

@Miss_Snuffy Very troubling! I love the CEO’s expression “intellectual joy”. Have you seen this @mrmarktaylor13?

[Jess Staufenberg @StaufenbergJ]

Meanwhile, are we really going to go through all this with grammar schools again... 😔

https://t.co/gFMqmXsYrX

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Schools and social justice - useful revisit of themes in this already dated article - is the public understanding now even more framed via identity politics not academic expectation?
https://t.co/yYsSjJCg10
@elss_freeschool @teach_well @DeBalloonist @StaufenbergJ

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Barry is right but don’t cog/neuro science AND teaching character, AFL ALL mean learning behaviours not academic subjects? End the tyranny of social science - just walk the chalk! @jo_facer @elss_freeschool @Trivium21c @eclectictrains #BattleofIdeasfest

https://t.co/zpiVqGhUBy

[Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79]

What if teachers are better than education professors at improving educational outcomes? Interesting. I DO have misgivings about teachers & research. I also know that pretty much every awful fad I’ve ever seen been sold as ‘science’ based. https://t.co/eBiWImM8ZN

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Retweeted x 2 from RM because he opened up Columbia to ELSS pupils on NYC trips ❤️ and article repositions social justice and education: universality of curriculum v. particularity of the student @elss_freeschool @DeBalloonist @teach_well @StaufenbergJ

https://t.co/1LZLPlOISa

[Roosevelt Montas @rooseveltmontas]

Who won the canon wars? Smart piece by ⁦@jjkaraganis⁩ and ⁦@clured⁩ https://t.co/niIX14b6Cp via @NYTOpinion

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

A thoughtful piece on what all good teachers need to have a view on over and above the classroom: education in, for and by itself @elss_freeschool @eclectictrains @BarryNSmith79 @jo_facer @Trivium21c
https://t.co/zpiVqGhUBy

[Roosevelt Montas @rooseveltmontas]

Who won the canon wars? Smart piece by ⁦@jjkaraganis⁩ and ⁦@clured⁩ https://t.co/niIX14b6Cp via @NYTOpinion

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

The question I asked here was whether specifically assessing and credentialising the teaching of character as moral virtue was really possible or desirable for good teaching - worth more thought! @elss_freeschool https://t.co/zpiVqGzvt6

[Instituto Core Curriculum @CoreUnav]

Time for questions and discussion. The audience is posing insightful core questions about what it is the basis to define good, or virtue, or how we can measure virtue growth #CoreConference19

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

#CoreConference19
Good discussion yesterday with Rob Jackson @GreatHeartsAcad and Karen Bohlin of Montrose of the challenges facing education in US secondary schools - curriculum versus character/neuroscience? @elss_freeschool https://t.co/zpiVqGhUBy

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Looking forward to this debate a lot just been speaking at a slightly less irreverent #CoreConference19 where focus is can virtue be taught @elss_freeschool

[Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79]

2nd Nov, 4pm, Barbican, me, ⁦@jo_facer⁩, ⁦@Trivium21c⁩ and the ⁦@ELSS_freeschool⁩ posse chewing the cud. Join us. I promise to be irreverent & ‘dire tout haut ce que tout le monde pense tout bas’. Lots of tales from my colourful career 1997 to now!

[ELSS_freeschool @elss_freeschool]

@StaufenbergJ @BarbicanCentre @mrmarktaylor13 This session is produced by Mark Taylor Vice-Principal and is part of our leadership programme.

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Also leads on to another cracking session on what really makes a good teacher in today’s confused educational landscape straight after! @elss_freeschool
https://t.co/zpiVqGhUBy

[mrmarktaylor @mrmarktaylor13]

Thanks Jess we have a great panel and really looking forward to doing justice to this complex educational topic https://t.co/1LZLPlOISa

[Jess Staufenberg @StaufenbergJ]

So this is a great topic! I'm speaking on a panel about "Schools: A new front for social justice?" for the Battle of Ideas festival @BarbicanCentre.

Invited by super interesting vice principal @mrmarktaylor13 from @elss_freeschool!

Sat 2nd November: https://t.co/EaVfSOSWkM