Rima Bist

🇮🇳 born 🇬🇧 reside. Mum to 🐶 & 👶🏻. Director of Brilliant Tutoring Programme @BrilliantClub. Writes about pedagogy, productivity and parenting

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Excited to be here at the Transition Knowledge Exchange, by UPP Foundation with @BrilliantClub and @VilliersPark. Looking forward to some interesting discourse.

#HETransitions2024

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@HFletcherWood This is great Henry. Back in 321 schools, scenario training was the most liked session by teachers. Every teacher had 5 minutes to use a pedagogy practice and receive feedback from peers. By EOD they had multiple opportunities to do everything you have listed above

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Both are fine. Scratch that, both are great.

Because neither is a measure of my worth as an employee yet both are that of me trying my best! 😌

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Sometimes the meals for my 8 month old are like painstakingly good (the left image) and sometimes absolutely effortless (the right one).

Both are fine. Scratch that, both are great.

Because neither is a measure of my worth as a mother, yet both are that of me trying my best

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Not to forget sleepless nights, chronic fatigue and an abundance of bodily spills to clean.

Sometimes my work days are composed of deep-diving flow-level work and sometimes I blunderingly send an email to the wrong recipient!

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@MillyTamati

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@PepsMccrea @DavidDidau

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Teachings from teaching #2

Students silent ✅
Busy copying notes ✅
Listening to my monologue ✅

Ahh, teaching comes so naturally to me, I thought. Until the exam scores bursted my bubble. Poor scores, even in lessons I ‘thought’ went well. 👎

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Learning courtesy: @PepsMccrea, John Hattie, Prof Robert Coe and @DavidDidau

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Eleven years on, I still hold this memory close. It reminds me of the power of empathy and the infinite potential in our kids. 💪🏼

What’s your favourite memory of learning something from a kid?

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Teachings from teaching #1
Confession: As a novice teacher, I thought I was the most knowledgeable person in the classroom. And it took forty 4th graders to make me realise I was wrong.
Month two as a new teacher: Struggling to engage kids and interruptions were my nemesis. 😫

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That night, despite the exhaustion, I couldn’t sleep.
A veil of misunderstanding had been lifted.
My kids know so much more than me.
I have so much to learn.