Okay, so here's where we are with @educationgovuk as far as I'm concerned. 🧵
Their behaviour towards children, parents and staff is completely reckless. Basically no real Covid mitigations while case numbers rage and children are hospitalised. 1/n
While government kind of claims to want to do something about systemic misogyny against women and girls (if they could remember the definition), we get this rubbish from @nadhimzahawi. 2/n
That's the same @nadhimzahawi who attended the men only sexism fest that is the 'President's Club'. And then claimed he was a changed man. 🙄 3/n
Then we've got @Ofstednews, who basically now seem to be the enforcement wing of the DfE, going into schools as though nothing has happened, while Covid is raging, with the pretty obvious impact on staff wellbeing and mental health. 4/n
Then we've got sweeping changes to pretty much every part of the profession in order to squeeze out any last possibility that teachers and practitioners might have space to decide for themselves. Look at the mess that is #ITTMarketReview if you're not sure what I mean. 5/n
And all these behaviours are apparently supported by a small group of cheerleaders in the profession who never seem to call government out on anything on here and consequently appear to get consulted about everything. Talk about group think. 6/n
This is the *very opposite* of evidence informed anything. It is ideology writ large, rampaging its way through the education system. And I'm sorry but I no longer have any patience for anyone who is a party to it. /Ends
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Okay I'm going to take a deep breath, post this, and then go into the garden for a few hours. Some things that men can do to better support women on social media and more generally. 1/n #thread ⬇️
1. Consider who you retweet and in what way. What does your attitude to women's/WoC's voices look like? 2. If women object to what you thought was a joke, don't shrug it off, say it was 'just bantz' or claim they are over reacting. 2/n
3. Don't share review lists of all/mostly men. (Here's a handy list because women write education books too: suecowley.co.uk/100-female-edu…). 4. Challenge the person who shared the list so that a woman don't have to do it. 3/n
I'm going to spend some of today reading the new #DevelopmentMatters in depth and tweeting some extracts/questions. Currently pondering this bit - how do we define "high-quality play"?
Sitting here with copies of the old and new versions of #DevelopmentMatters in front of me. One obvious observation is that the old version feels much easier to 'dip in and out' of, because of the way that it's structured.
I think that diagrams like this, from the front of the old #DevelopmentMatters are really useful in helping people conceptualise how it all hangs together in #EYFS.
Another short(ish) thread about #Ofsted ... I no longer have any faith (and I never had much) in the impartiality of the inspectorate.
As far as I’m concerned, this is not what an ‘evidence informed’ organisation looks like - this is an ideological inspectorate that has a view and quotes only the evidence that backs it up.
The research quoted to support the new frameworks has a worrying circularity – it quotes reports commissioned by the DfE, and research done by Ofsted’s own Director of Research.
I've been asked to send @educationgovuk an email with my questions about the #baselinetest. Here's a thread of the questions I've asked so far.
1. Will parental consent be requested to test the children and to gather and store the data, given the fact that they will not be of compulsory school age?
2. If parental consent is not requested, why is this being assumed in the absence of specific consent being given to process the data? On what 'lawful basis' will the data be gathered?