Rachel Wellfair-Priest

Assistant Principal T&L @huishepiscopiac • Passionate about teacher development • MFL teacher 🇩🇪🇪🇸• Mamá to the world’s most amazing little girl 💕

[Robust Feed @RobustFeed]

Watched my dad have this every single morning for breakfast growing up and we his kids always joined in too

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@BenRiceTeach Are there schools these days who *don’t* use MWBs? Genuine question! I find it nearly impossible to imagine

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@SawyerMerritt The double sunroof 😍

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.

Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

Why am I against screen-based assessments? This change will warp teaching practice for the worse. I guarantee it. More & more lesson time will be devoted to putting classes in front of screens. School leaders will feel pressure to prepare pupils which 1/

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@Mr_Raichura I completely agree.
20. Do you have any suggestions for reducing or mitigating the costs associated with these proposals?

My response:
Not doing it is the obvious way to completely eliminate the costs.

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

😂

[Mr Firth @mister_firth]

Ofsted inspecting fictional schools Episode 1: Hogwarts

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

This is great news 🤩 26 primaries have signed up to teach Cornish. I want to learn! #mfltwitterati

[BBC Cornwall @BBCCornwall]

The move gives Kernewek the same level of protection as the Welsh language: https://t.co/WsMfmdMz5e

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

For those of you who follow Paul Kirschner (and those of you who don't, but should), his account was hacked and he no longer has access to it. Please follow his new account
@New_Old_Paul
and unfollow and report @P_A_Kirschner PLEASE RT

[Dan Lambert 🙋🏼‍♂️ @dan_ofsted]

Alternatively, and completely free, you can access the actual training materials we deliver to our inspectors. This is filling up all the time and comes directly from Ofsted without any risk of mistakes, misinformation or misinterpretation as can be the case when non-inspectors are selling a product. I’ve not read the book so can’t comment on the quality of Paul’s advice.

https://t.co/bZdkVaVMtz

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

Not everything that feels supportive actually helps. Coloured paper and invented retention rates tell a bigger story about why bad ideas persist in schools.
Link below ⬇️

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@adamboxer1 Got this one loaded ready for my weekend driving tomorrow! 🤩

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

England’s school's have achieved competitive advantage over those in the US by stressing knowledge-rich curriculum, more rigorous assessment & teaching informed by principles of cognitive psychology.

Now they’re phone free too. And good for them. English kids deserve that.

The question is: Will US schools keep pace or let themselves fall even further behind?

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@tombennett71 @adamboxer1 @amymayforrester I found it super interesting to hear your reflections on how behaviour in English schools (or perhaps more specifically, schools’ approaches to behaviour) compares to elsewhere - as well as the reminder that fundamentally, children are children everywhere

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

I found the contextualisation of behaviour in schools in England fascinating, enjoyed the reflections on consistency, systems & culture, & also the discussion on “belonging”. I highly recommend this, thank you! @adamboxer1 @amymayforrester @tombennett71 https://t.co/6NOdcvq7ry

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

This 💯

[Amy Forrester @amymayforrester]

It isn’t SEND training that schools need. It’s funding directly into schools to adequately staff them. It’s investment in alternative provision to make place available.

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@MrColesDrama @TheWellsAcademy Good luck!

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

@WhaleEverything @NoLimitGains @grok Done

[Rachel Wellfair-Priest @TheSpanishist]

Absolutely loved reading this.

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

Bloom's famous 2 sigma tutoring study was a 3 week intervention on two sub-topics that were new to students - cartography & probability. The intervention was assessed using unstandardised researcher-designed tests.

You cannot make big generalisations from such a narrow & small study.

https://t.co/7ayeADPXh0

[InnerDrive @Inner_Drive]

Does handwriting really matter when students can simply use AI and computers? Find out in this Expert Insight sneak peek with @daisychristo! https://t.co/dfWPRokxZS