🧵Teaching: A Day in the Life

08:00 - I'm still in bed while the children let themselves into school. They chat politely whilst tidying classrooms.

08:30 - I get up and have breakfast. At school, the kids are in their form rooms unsupervised. One takes the register. ... (1/6) 09:00 - I rock up with a coffee and start talking at kids about maths. The kids sit and learn, politely. I do this on and off until 3pm, with regular opportunities to go for a wee.

15:00 - I clock off for the day. My final class take the register themselves just as... (2/6)

Some #TeacherStrike stuff: a thread that I'll probably add to throughout the day. 1. If you're outraged by today's #teacherstrike due to "lost learning" thanks for recognising the importance of schools and teachers to society. The best thing you could do now is to add your voice to the call for schools to be properly funded and teachers to be properly paid.

You don't have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at maths, to help your children learn maths. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes.
A thread: 1. Do they seem to have been taught a different method for something you remember? Not a problem: get them to teach you theirs, and encourage them to try to understand yours. See if you can spot similarities. Why do both work? Can you find reasons why one may be...