2) The teacher who does not get all their work done in school hours, but still does not want to receive emails outside of school hours because it is an additional thing to worry about
3) My group: the teacher who deliberately keeps odd hours. I leave school as early as I can so I can be with my family, and pick up the rest of my work in the evenings and on weekends.
Scheduling emails via Outlook to arrive once the school day has started is good for teacher 1 and 2. It is NOT good for teacher 3. I get in early and start prepping my lessons. Last thing I need is a barrage of emails at 0815.
This is important: there is no one solution that will work for everybody. You have to be flexible and sensitive. That's why I included this section in the blog
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Oh one last thing - scheduling emails is also unreliable. I've been burned in the past by Outlook playing silly buggers
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Science Teachers! With remote learning on the horizon, here is a short thread with some useful free resources. Please read to the end and make sure to share widely - we need to help each other.
Next up is the @GreenshawTrust offering - I have not used this myself, but Greenshaw have been pretty ace throughout this and they have some fantastic schools and staff, so I imagine their generous offering here is of a very high quality. twitter.com/GreenshawTrust
So it turns out very few people know what the word "kosher" means or what the dietary restrictions on a religious orthodox Jew are, so I thought I'd give some headlines in a little thread if anybody is interested. Here goes:
The rules governing what food is "kosher" are MASSIVE. Literally huge. Books and books and books. I'm not going to do all of that here obviously, both because I don't know it all (that's why we have rabbis) and also because just no. These are the highlights only.
Most people know about the pork thing. In the Hebrew Bible it says not to eat animals unless they have cloven hooves and chew the cud. So pigs are out, cows and sheep are in. Birds: we have a list- chicken, turkey, goose and duck are in, most others are out.
@BioRachProject A reminder: poor student behaviour is not your fault, even if there is stuff you can do to prevent it that you didn't do. Put it like this: if I drive to Birmingham up the motorway, odds are good I might break the speed limit. Bear with me. 1/
@BioRachProject I slow down when I see a traffic camera or a sign for one. So logically, if there was a camera all the way up the motorway, I would never speed. So the police could stop me speeding by putting up cameras along the entire route. 2/
@BioRachProject But they didn't. So I ended up speeding in bits where there was no camera. Now if I get caught, can I say "well hang on, you could have put a camera up, then I wouldn't have sped, so really it's your fault"? Obviously not. It's still my fault. Still on me. 3/
Ok here's the NERDY THREAD on interleaving and blocking!
When I was doing research for the @cogscisci FREE module on "how to write practice for your students" I uncovered some really cool findings, but also some mysterious ones. Read on for nerfery! 1/
So first, we know that "overlearning" leads to positive learning gains. This is where you just do a monster amount (a shed load?) of practice on a specific skill. 2/
We also know that "interleaving", which is where you mix different skills (or knowledge areas) together, you also get positive learning gains. 3/
Today a colleague called in with a temperature - she had two triple lessons, first lot with Y8 and second lot Y7. We decided to bunch the classes together and teach 60 kids in the hall. I'm fairly confident this will happen again, so here is a short thread with things we learned:
1. This does not work if you don't have a strong curriculum (obviously). All our classes learn the same content in the same order so it was pretty easy to just jump straight in seamlessly
2. You must have miniwhiteboards at every seat. Students were distanced on exam desks, which means that the furthest students were far away from me and I didn't circulate. Only way to ensure they were thinking during questioning was to do the whole lot on MWBs