Raul Pope Farguell

Primary school teacher, CELTA, MA AL TESOL, DELTA, CELTA trainer. Teacher training, the lexical approach, materials writing, coffee. All views entirely my own.

[Raul Pope Farguell @raulpope84]

@greg_ashman @dylanwiliam When I did some research into using peer feedback to improve grammatical accuracy, the big thing was what they did with it. So the old 'www' and 'wti' would need to be actionable and I assume focus on one thing.

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@owenjonesjourno For anyone who is interested in that period of Russian history, and how putting an end to it still legitimises Putin's rule in their view, watch a TV show called 'Brigada'. It's got cult status. I'm told it's a faithful story of what life was like.

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@greg_ashman I completely agree. Would you rather use other terms which seem to mean the same, such as UDL or Adaptive Teaching?

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@edudissenter But I'd guess I'd ask what evidence you're looking for that would be enough to convince you. If it's research on a large scale, that might not be out there or you might have to search journals to find it.

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@edudissenter In the ELT Journal (Oxford), there are articles doing these very things:
Student teachers’ perceptions of critical thinking and its teaching Purchased, Yuan & Stapleton (2020);
Effective questioning in CLIL classrooms: empowering thinking Purchased, Caravaca (2019)

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@greg_ashman There have been exceptions to this, some kids have been expelled for things such as smoking in the toilet. Repeated bad / disruptive behaviour isn't something that would get you expelled, though, it has to be consistently violent.

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@greg_ashman I work at a school in Russia and kids do "leave" due to behaviour, but there's a law that says you can't kick kids out without them having another school to go to so usually plenty of warning is given to the parents. In my schools case the kid's "contract won't be renewed".

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@eduleadership Is this not very similar to shadow reading?

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@MmeLockhartLDS @LouisaMoats @ReadingRockets Thank you!

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@MmeLockhartLDS I might be going completely mad here, so excuse me if I am, but I can't find the 4% stat in the article and thought it was closer to 14-15%.

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@GemMcc22 @Eurocentres_BTH There were definitely ideas within the groups when I did this, but I also have to say there was a lot of 'my idea would have worked' without any real development. The key being at times some groups went in one direction ignoring someone else's idea that another team used to win

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Students totally engaged in the marshmallow challenge @Eurocentres_BTH #teamwork #millennials #marshmallowchallenge

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@GemMcc22 @Eurocentres_BTH You tackled it in the FB. Students were asked to reflect on what they did, what went well, what didn't, what they'd do differently next time. Comparing their models to other models was part of this.

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@dieworkwear Episode 478 - the French Revolution: showdown in Versailles of @TheRestHistory podcast, you get name checked, @holland_tom is a big fan. What do you think of court dress in 1789? Gold trimmed cloaks, black silk coats, lace cravats.

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@BladeoftheS It's a start, but should only start at 2%...

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@Adele_lide Does the question work the other way? Why do women in their 20s date men in their 40s and beyond?

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I have a Telegram group, Teacher Training 101 - link below - with the idea of going beyond CELTA and towards more advanced knowledge. The thing is anything grammar related is far more popular than anything else, teaching only seems to solidify this view

https://t.co/ZAlRmgfmJT

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@harryfcb21 Even if my account has nothing to do with football? (spoiler, it's for education)

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@the_berneese_ sexy

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@sidlowe depends on the context (obvs), but 'struggling to cope', 'the point of no return', 'at breaking point', 'pushed to our limits'