Music Teaching UK

Another summer, another season of #FarageRiots

The #2 rule of teaching: all children benefit from being taught in ways that disproportionately benefit those with special needs open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

The idea of giving children badges that say "strangers can approach me and go to the toilet with me" does, um, not sound like it meets basic safeguarding criteria.

Some schools assign prefects this way.

You can abhor TR’s views and ideology and also not fuel the victim mentality of that ideology by not repressing innocent cultural expression on a day designed for it. ‘Celebrate your national culture! But not that one,’ just exacerbates it.

When line-ups were first brought into our school we practised it to ensure staff knew how to effectively monitor their line, that we had a shared language when instructing the lines and to ensure all staff knew how to deliver appropriate sanctions.

Phoning home and speaking to parents/carers 1st parent/carer evening Setting good cover Managing a tutor group Doing ‘on call’ Break duty Managing/leading colleagues Etc All things we often expect staff to know how to do with little input. Better if they are given advice first?

Which is why there is a benefit to staff seeing what it's like and what the issues can be.

V interesting that some teachers think that whole school lineups don't need training/support. Teachers often complain that the average person doesn't see the work that goes into running a room. Some teachers are making the same mistake with lineups.

Those who criticise the role of structure and order in schools may not realise that the opposite is chaos, where expectations are unclear and children feel unsafe. That’s not inclusion. That’s neglect!

Hesds-up to observers of music lessons. You may not see 'turn and talk' or 'cold calling'. Not all knowledge is verbal-declarative. Other forms of knowledge are available. These may be more relevant to demonstrating musical understanding. @DrFautley @musicmarkuk @MusicTeachers_

"the characteristics of good pedagogy for kids with SEND aren’t all that different from good pedagogy, full stop" Before we try and define inclusive pedagogy, we need to define why it doesn't work right now. And how to solve those issues. 👇 tes.com/magazine/teach…

Lots of free-speech warriors seem to have a problem with free speech today.

Interesting day. Got verbally and physically abused, but the student was wearing correct uniform, so I guess I sweated the small stuff. Everything else should work out. That is how it works, right?

Students who internally truant and constantly waste staff time should be permanently excluded. I don't understand how students like this have the brass neck to go to Y11 leaver events. Schools should ban them.

Also you’re forcing teachers to deliver content that they don’t believe in. A maths teacher does not have any buy in to a career PowerPoint they receive just before delivering it, they’ll do it, and if you went in to their class you’ll see them doing it, they’ll never complain…

If you think that schools restricting access to toilets is child abuse, and fail to report it, you are complicit in the abuse.

When your school tells you that they're doing all they can to combat internal truancy, ask them why they're not doing this.

Anti exclusion extremists hate this one simple question.

Please explain how this looks in the case of a boy who has committed a sexual assault at school. How is his victim not protected by him no longer being in the same building? What "carrot" would be appropriate?