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Sep 13, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In light of seeing this article today I thought this might be appropriate...

10 tips for NQTs (and maybe even experienced teachers too 😉)
#NQTsurvival #nqt #nqtchat
tes.com/news/one-seven…
1. Keep it simple. You probably won’t get through everything you’ve planned. Don’t worry about it and move on.
2. Schedule how you will use your PPA. Don’t lose your PPA chatting about nothing with whoever is nearby.
3. Learn some essentials. Get to know the office staff, the caretaker, work the guillotine and photocopier.
4. Figure out who are the lemon suckers - and avoid them.
5. Value your LSA. They’re worth their weight in gold.
6. Acceptance. At some point you will teach a crap lesson. Don’t let it define you. Accept it, learn from it, grow from it - and move on.
7. Try to prioritise. The simplest way is decide what is essential and what is optional. (Sounds easier than it is!)
8. You won’t please every parent. Seek support from leaders when dealing with tricky conversations.
9. Stuff will go wrong - but probably not as much as you think. Ask yourself - are you having a bad day or a bad few minutes that you’re milking all day?
10. Look after yourself. Decide in advance when you will/won’t work - and stick to it.
And one more for luck...
11. Your effectiveness as a teacher isn’t determined by how early you arrive at school and how late you leave. 🚀

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Sep 25, 2020
Our words shape the worlds of our children.

👉🏻Instead of using the word “work” - we could talk about “learning”.

Work is something you do for someone else. Work is from the adult world. Not from a child’s world.

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Remember, we work because we have to, and we learn because we want to.

👉🏻Instead of saying “clever” - we could talk about effort, perseverance and the process of learning.
The definition of clever is: “quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas”.
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Sep 25, 2020
Just a few thoughts:

Wellbeing isn’t tokenistic gestures or acts of ‘being nice’ to people. All those acts *contribute* to wellbeing, and can help people feel valued and appreciated. I’m NOT saying don’t do them. But they are not wellbeing.
Wellbeing is a state of comfort, health and happiness.

We need to address how staff can reach a state of ease, rather than dis-ease, by addressing workload, use of time, expectation of communication and feedback streams.
We need to step back and look at all the things we do and ask:
Why do we do this?
Who is it for?
When I’ve done it, who looks at it after?
What do they do with it?
Is it essential or optional?
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Jul 17, 2020
With schools trying to develop a ‘recovery’ curriculum, there are a few people outside of education who I would be keen to work with to develop wellbeing in schools.

I don’t run a podcast yet - but if it meant I could speak with these few - I’d make it happen.

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1/
 @matthewsyed

Using concepts from Rebel Ideas tells us there are people outside of education who can contribute to the problem space.

I’d love to be able to find out Matthew’s take on how schools and education could use Rebel Ideas to bounce back and recover.
2/
 @RossEdgley

When it comes to developing resilience and strengthening the body and mind to be well placed for future challenges - Ross would be my go to person.

I would love to hear how he’d apply his knowledge and experience to developing resilience in education.
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Jul 1, 2020
I've seen a lot of media reporting and talk on #edutwitter about a 'catch up curriculum'.

My question is catch up with what?

The age-related expectation of a pre-Covid world?

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For more than the next ten years, we will have children in the education system who have not attended school during this time.

Is this not enough to suggest the age-related expectation of the pre-Covid world no longer applies in today's world?
Everything we now expect of our children, regardless of their age, will change.
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Jun 28, 2020
4 things about failure...

1/
Failure doesn’t mean it is the end. Failure means it is the start of a new journey.
2/
When we fail or get something wrong and tell ourselves we are not good enough, smart enough or strong enough, we chip away at our level of self-esteem and self-worth through negative self-talk.
3/
We should not fear failure or seek to avoid it.
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Jun 24, 2020
👉🏻26 things about education...

1. Schools are like factories.

2. Children are the products.

3. They are created in batches and time stamped.

4. They’re all measured and assessed by how well they perform in a test.
5. An expected behaviour for good learning is good sitting and listening. Usually at a table.

6. Those who do well on a test are labelled as clever and those who do not are labelled as not clever.
7. Society has come to generally believe clever and not clever is the same as academic and non-academic.

8. A lot of brilliant people fail to reach their potential of fulfil their brilliance because they’ve been labelled not clever or not academic.
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