Richard Whiteley very sadly and prematurely died #OTD in 2005 at the age of only 61. His terrible jokes and even more terrible puns were a staple of Countdown back in the day. But he was occasionally brought almost to tears with laughter by jokes sent in by the fans at home 👇
Received my copy of @MaryMyatt’s ‘KS3: Ambitious Years’ through the post today. I’m not finished yet but it is genuinely stunning and I’m not exaggerating when I say it needs to be required reading for all teachers. Superb ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Me after telling a teacher that my homework is in my bag and he’s asked me to take it out and I start looking for it even though I know and he knows there’s no homework in the bag. That.
An effect size of .11 sounds small.
In real classrooms, it might be exactly what we should expect.
Why writing instruction works, just not spectacularly.
https://t.co/v2qhNxC1eI
Someone is flying around City Hall tail whipping in a little buggy to Olivia Dean’s ‘Man I Need’. Philadelphia is the best city in the world and you can’t convince me otherwise
Here’s the link for everyone asking. The file also has two other LP1 practice papers I made but still in the ‘old’ style and need to be updated! https://t.co/T5INRuBvXD
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‘The oversimplification trap’
“When it comes to students in the classroom, we can simplify an explanation of a concept into PPT where complex phrases become glossy icons. Books become short booklets. Subjects become revision guides.”
https://t.co/ST4JcuKy6g