Mike Hill
@michaeldoron
Head of History at @arksoaneacademy.
Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions? Jacob Olivey and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars. Link below! 👇
Anglicans visiting the parish of a slightly different kind of Anglican
📱School leaders say banning phones has been 'transformational', with a drop in suspension rates, safeguarding concerns and even staff turnover schoolsweek.co.uk/transformation…
Yet Bridget Phillipson says it's a "gimmick" and Starmer says it is "unnecessary".
📱School leaders say banning phones has been 'transformational', with a drop in suspension rates, safeguarding concerns and even staff turnover schoolsweek.co.uk/transformation…
A 4hr 26 min train journey to get to the SHP conference. What better way to pass the time than to lose myself in some incredible #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Book 3:Fragile Worlds chapters. @Counsell_C
The 2019 Ofsted framework moved away from “showing progress in lessons”, I hoped definitively. It will be a big step backwards for education if the idea returns.
I remember when @CharteredColl was started. Hope was that it would give more professional respect to teachers. So it’s v disappointing to see a ‘fellow’ of CCT, who doesn’t actually teach, but who does have CPD to sell, so eager to criticise those working hard to improve things.
I don’t usually share a school’s tweet but this was shared publicly as a good example of an activity during an Inset day. Teachers being asked to line up in the playground to show them how children should be asked to line up. This level of control leads to teachers leaving.
Forget about schadenfreude, angst and poltergeist. The German loan word the English language really needs is 'Feierabend', that moment when work is done and leisure begins. In the name of intercultural exchange, I'm merging this with local traditions 😁🇬🇧🇩🇪 Happy Feierabend! 🍻
I think it’s quite unhelpful when exam boards respond to teachers’ queries by suggesting they “become examiners.” Many, many teachers don’t have capacity for this – and surely exam requirements should be equally clear to all teachers?
An advantage of knowledge-rich curricula over skills-based ones that I haven't seen discussed much is with the former students can see they are making progress—they know things they formerly didn't. When students see they are making progress they are more likely to invest effort.
bend of the monongahela river saul berman, california, pennsylvania post office mural (1939)