Tim Young

Nottingham born. Deputy Head. Teach First '14 - London. Moved to Melbourne, Aus in Jan 23 to teach. Occasional cricketing.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@3dancingfeet Interesting you think it's Adam who comes off as rude in this interaction.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@peter_sarris They'll still be able to access them.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@radwyn @ICooper Congrats. You'll still be able to.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@3dancingfeet @bookbird71 Because every other way of making decisions about next steps is worse. Leads to an entrenching of inequality. It's anti-meritocratic.

Look what happened to grades at private schools when exams were scrapped during covid.

Exams clearly not perfect but everything else is worse.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@benjonescricket Have the Surrey players just not faced as much spin?

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

MrBeast trains new employees at his company with a 36-page knowledge-rich PDF and a quiz at the end.

Oh, and he asks them to read the PDF twice, because they won't retain everything the first time.

Watch what people do, not what they say.

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

Sam is correct.

Also, from an assessment point of view, this whole debate reveals why rank order sometimes can be really useful.

EG a lot of the time you will hear people say "Well it's the absolute score that matters, not the rank order".

But when there is a big external shock to a system - like a pandemic! - comparing pre and post absolute scores is misleading.

Rank order is actually more useful in this situation.

In this case, yes, England's absolute scores did not change much pre & post pandemic - but in the context of almost every other country's score falling!

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

A passage from the Phillipson profile is extremely misleading.

She claims England's improvement in PISA scores isn't impressive because recent scores are not much higher than in 2009. She also claims that @michaelgove's reforms failed to close the attainment gap between rich and poor. Both are misleading.

Here's some context she 'forgot' to add:

- England's Maths Ranking: 27th (2009)➡️11th (2022)

- England's Reading Ranking: 25th (2009)➡️13th (2022)

- Scores fell during the pandemic everywhere, but England's scores fell by less.

- Wales (under Labour) didn't implement Gove's reforms. Their scores are lower than England's and haven't improved.

- In fact, the average Welsh pupil now performs at the same level as the most disadvantaged pupils in England.

- Scotland is a similar story. They had better scores than England 20 years ago. England's are now higher in all three categories. (Scotland also withdrew from other international metrics.)

- Phillipson claims our average scores might be up, but we've done little on equity/fairness.

- The problem for her is that England's attainment gap between rich and poor is very low by international standards.

- England's 86 point gap is below France's (113), Germany's (111), OECD average (93). The gap is marginally larger than Finland's (83), but our gap is stable while theirs is widening.

I agree with the New Statesman article that Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson isn't a Marxist. But let's be clear, she is undermining successful reforms and abusing statistics in the process.

Not a Marxist, not good either.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@jamese1976 @tombennett71 Yep! You know that I'm well versed in that James!

It's still going to invovle evacuating the classroom before doing the Positive Handling I'd suggest. And there are certainly occasions where safer handling just isn't the best option.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@benjonescricket Turns out I was wrong. I think.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@benjonescricket I'm shouting at the TV. Surely we have to walk off.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@vickygrayson_ @rosie_wrighting Would like to know the context for that quote - do you have the full article?

Your 2nd picture doesn't say the thing I think you think it does.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@cameronponsonby Could teach him how to say your name.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

Before I moved to Aus I'd played 348 games of cricket (that had been recorded).

I got out for less than 20, 153 times. I turned up, and did basically nothing, 153 times.

Yet I wouldn't change it for the world.

@cameronponsonby sums up why perfectly.

[Cameron Ponsonby @cameronponsonby]

I've written a piece for @Nike, for their new Substack called In The Margins that is publishing new sports writing every other week.

The piece is on why you and I play cricket.

https://t.co/ewnOA6vXhS

[Cameron Ponsonby @cameronponsonby]

I've written a piece for @Nike, for their new Substack called In The Margins that is publishing new sports writing every other week.

The piece is on why you and I play cricket.

https://t.co/ewnOA6vXhS

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@margaretmckeow2 Sure. But that's not the right thing to do for every moment of every lesson.

It's about having a suite of tools and knowing the right ones to use for the right purpose in the right moment.

Whereas you seem to be saying it's never useful.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@margaretmckeow2 If some kids are imitating and haven't quite got there on their own yet I'm also okay with that.

Imitation of the correct answer better than listening to one kid give the correct answer and teacher moving on.

[Tim Young @TimJamesYoung]

@margaretmckeow2 You may get one or two hiding, but in classes with a good culture of error you do hear those misconceptions come through.

For me, when used well, it's about ratio, everyone's checked into the lesson all the time, everyone's thinking, helps with the illusion of pace.