Zain Abidean

Head of English - OALP

[Zain Abidean @zuabidean]

Want a MCQ quiz on every scene/stave/act/poem? Suitable for distance learning during these extraordinary times and for interleaving when we get back to the classroom.

NB: Texts covered - Macbeth, ACC, AIC, P&C poetry

https://t.co/qDhnrdDOF5

#TeamEnglish #TENC19

[Mark Ogden @MarkOgden_]

Morocco celebrate their win against Spain with a Palestinian flag. Every North African and Middle East team has made sure that the Palestine issue is prominent at every game

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

What's happening in AI right now, and what does it mean for education?

I asked GPT-3 (a chatbot) 10 questions about cold call to illustrate:

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[Vic Goddard @vicgoddard]

3 mid year EHCP transfers from the same organisation. Might be an issue worth looking into I reckon but by who?… Anyone? Hello? Oh, we’ll just pretend it isn’t happening then

[Sonja @SNunneley]

@FearnhillSchool has recently gone from RI to Good and our approach to reading across school was mentioned in the report as a strength. This thread outlines the way we run reading interventions and outlines some of the challenges and things that worked for us 🧵

[Clo Nicoll @clo_nicoll]

WAGOLL paragraph for Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet to help students see what I mean by a conceptualised / critical response (Level 6). Uploaded to @LitdriveUK too. @Team_English1 #teamenglish #litdrive #shakespeare #englishteacher

[Zain Abidean @zuabidean]

@socwarrior Hi Kelly, this sounds great. Could I come over to Beckfoot and see this in action?

[Andy @__codexterous]

I love using this DO NOW in English

You can use the same basic format for pretty much any text.

It’s a lot of fun!

[Sarah Cottinghatt @SCottinghatt]

I'm blown away by how important our *existing knowledge* is for how and what we learn.

Here's my attempt to sum it up. 3 things…🧵

[Douglas Wise @DoWise]

Ten resources for teaching An Inspector Calls...

1⃣ Study booklet
2⃣ Common misconceptions
3⃣ Connections booklet
4⃣ Recap booklet
5⃣ Retrieval grid
6⃣ Staging one-pager
7⃣ Messages one-pager
8⃣ Context one-pager
9⃣ Quotations one-pager
🔟 Feedback sheet

#TeamEnglish

[Mary Myatt @MaryMyatt]

If we are serious about providing pupils with an ambitious curriculum, we need to consider how the ‘high challenge’ is balanced by ‘low threat’.

First, what do we mean by challenge?

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[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude

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[Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach]

Ten classic errors teachers make when giving feedback...

[Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach]

What can schools do to improve boys' attainment?

I've been writing and researching this for years, and here's a thread featuring 7 easy(!) steps schools can take to reduce gender gaps:

[Mr Bellusci @MrBellusci]

A very handy one page revision resource for the AQA Power & Conflict poetry collection: https://t.co/FMsscQavb9 - help yourselves! 🤝

[Jade Pearce @PearceMrs]

Nothing like leading a T&L briefing at my own school. A great one this week - revisiting the ‘active ingredients’ of each strategy in our T&L framework.

[Alex Jones @Alex_Ofsted]

Yesterday @educationgovuk published KS2 provisional results for 2022. These are the first since 2019 (no KS2 assessments in 2020 or 2021). A short thread of what we are seeing:

[D_Goodall @DGoodall9]

This week @TwoCountiesT our words of the week are our core values of ambition, teamwork and honesty. Every TTCT member of staff has access to a script to aid with the delivery of word of the week. #TTCTAmbition

[Ash Jacobs @AJacobsEdu]

The worst thing about this is that it’s a best case scenario. The staggering projected further increase in energy costs will be crippling for schools and trusts already struggling.