Tini Lopes

Teaching and Learning Lead for MFL- 15 years experience as a secondary teacher specialising in 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹 . Passionate about languages and learning 🌟

[Kate Jones @KateJones_teach]

Oh no flashback to the interactive whiteboard! Trying to recalibrate the board live in the lesson what a disaster.

I'm spending a day next week at a conference with Daisy all about AI, I'm looking forward to it. I always learn a lot from her, I think she's great & the substacks she's published lately have been so good!

[Rod @rodjnaquin]

Greg Ashman explains a common problem: teachers claim they already use "explicit teaching" (direct instruction with clear explanations and guided practice), but they're actually doing something quite different. He shares how he thought he was teaching effectively but changed after reading research in 2011. Now he demonstrates one concept at a time, has students practice immediately on whiteboards, and guides them extensively before letting them work alone. School visits help teachers realize their methods differ from true research-based explicit teaching.
https://t.co/u7pyIQBkqk

[🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk @TeacherToolkit]

Whole School Teaching and Learning Implementation

This research suggests whole-school implementation (science) - or transforming organisational culture - takes at least 2-4 years.

What we can take from this is that a school’s teaching and learning culture requires a clear vision and effective implementation strategies and a long-game approach.

https://t.co/cH4f7x8hsD

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

The choreography of teaching 30 children at the same time > quite a long read but dare I say I think it's worth it. Nail this, you've nailed it! https://t.co/R9fxgXRcgK via @teacherhead

[Mary Myatt @MaryMyatt]

Pupil premium pupils outperforming their peers.

Not because expectations were lowered. Because they were raised.

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[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

One of the trickiest questions in vocabulary instruction is deceptively simple:

Which words should we explicitly teach?

After years working with schools on vocabulary, I explore that challenge here:

https://t.co/FRpWuHalAM

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is thoughtful, useful and probably important. Well worth reading.

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

There is a lot of emerging evidence that writing by hand offers vital benefits.

""There's actually some very important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by han... It has important cognitive benefits."

https://t.co/ILjXoKM4YH

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

It will never cease to amaze me how Vygotsky become the patron saint of pedagogy. The hallowed Zone of Proximal Development is so loosely defined as to be almost useless in terms of operation. For example, what constitutes the “zone” or “potential” varies wildly depending on interpretation. Don't get me wrong, Vygotsky deserves historical recognition but there are FAR more useful frameworks to know which are grounded in decades of empirical research and directly inform classroom practice.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

30 things no one tells you when you reach the age of 40:

1. No one prepares you for the fact you will go to more funerals & this will increase as you get older. The people you love will eventually pass, so we must cherish them now while we have them.

[Tini Lopes @tini1185]

@beebusy99 @Jacquitilt That’s really impressive- well done! 👏🏼

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

📣 A couple of my latest one-pagers on streamlining and enhancing marking and feedback. Drawing inspiration from @dylanwiliam and incorporating insights from @teacherhead. These summaries are freely available to download from my website.

🌐 https://t.co/OiWjm96OXQ

[Mind Money Notes @MMNotes_28]

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[Christopher Hughes MBE @chrislinguist]

Without language, there is no education or communication. That's why a language is not just another subject. A language is every subject, all knowledge, viewed through a different lens. Linguist or not, a language in school unlocks a much wider world. https://t.co/ytwPECVlqm

[Nicola Woolcock @nicolawoolcock]

How to boost German language in UK schools?
Get a vegan TikTok star and a German football club on board.
German Embassy in London also lobbies Home Office to cut post-Brexit red tape that makes taking young people abroad more difficult.

https://t.co/ZABLsK7Fu9

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Agenda 2024. A few everyday things, done brilliantly. https://t.co/bbekxmaCFa

[Nate Joseph @NateJoseph19]

I think one of the biggest barriers for teachers understanding the science of reading is the vocabulary. So I spent the last three weeks working on this glossary, with a large group of people, to try and solve the problem.

https://t.co/n65zpWzHjU

[Silvia Bastow FCCT @SisaSilvia4]

📣IMPORTANT UPDATE📣my new website is up and running now! My old Blogspot one will run until end of the year (re-direct link is in place for the new 1) then it will be unpublished. It would be great, if my followers could share. https://t.co/JFlJE9lzm3
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