Ms. G

UWO & BrockU alumni. French & English teacher. Basketball, volleyball & tennis coach. Avid reader and runner. 🇨🇦 living in 🇦🇺

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

🧵4/4 This broke me open. Students have the capacity to be amazing. They all have beautiful and broken pieces inside. And we need to make it relatable. We are lucky to be on this journey with them. 🤍🤍🤍 #teachertwitter

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

🧵 1/4We are doing poetry, and I work with a lot of students from relatively high trauma backgrounds. Some students I will only see once a fortnight, and most times, there is little work done. But they show up. They sit, they listen, and they discuss.

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

🧵3/4 this one student, who has been hella angry, a few fights, really traumatic background. And this student writes for the first time all year:

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

Sad truth: I wake up early to do the wordle so students don’t ruin it for me.

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

The challenge in teaching rn: getting smashed over and over again by challenging behaviours, with admin showing no mercy and trying to make teaching formulaic. #teachertwitter

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

The more that students must "work at storing the deposits [of knowledge] entrusted to them" - e.g., by studying for tests - "the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world"
-Paolo Freire

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

💗💗💗💗

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

that’s a wrap on my time in Santa Monica ! Onto my next teaching adventure …. 🇺🇸 -> 🇦🇺

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

So proud of these seniors !! Amazing students at SMCHS. 💗❤️💗

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

I have the best classroom view in the world! So thankful to be in person. To connect. To laugh. To cry. I love my job 💗

[Danny Steele @SteeleThoughts]

Effective teachers are not naive about their challenges… but they focus on what they can control -- the quality of their instruction to students and the quality of their interaction with students.

[Tyler Rablin @Mr_Rablin]

It’s not formative assessment if nothing changes as a result.

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

“Common Core provides little creativity in the English classroom on standardized tests (including those evil and pernicious vocabulary quizzes) where there is one right answer. Yes, there is danger in not including poetry and creative arts in education.”

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

This is phenomenal. Wow. 🙌🏼

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

I just read this terrific piece by @WalterBowne about how he, his fellow teacher Christine, and their AP English students spent their time after the AP exam. Seems well worth emulating. https://t.co/uMwdvvKEf5

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

Food for thought: “Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize people - they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress” (pedagogy of the oppressed) #adreamdeferred21 #education

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

“Lecturing is obviously a very comfortable mode of teaching. After all, monologue is much less risky than dialogue.”
-Chet Meyers

[David Miller @Miller_DG]

Amanda Gorman strongly reminds us why poetry is necessary as part of our common discourse:

[Ms. G @rgettel5]

Ok one lesson more on #amandagorman !! #poetry #onted #englishteacher https://t.co/rkc8HuTTOZ