I find it wild that if you’re verbally abusive to a police officer or a nurse you can be prosecuted, but we are saying that when it happens to teachers it’s not even appropriate to send a child home.

New Blog Post 📝 I hate QLA. Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do. I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too. open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...

Science teachers. If you haven't seen it before, this link contains pretty much all the resources you will ever need. 1000s of files. #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 drive.google.com/drive/folder...

My Twitter/X account has been hacked, and I can no longer access it. In other words, I'm no longer on Twitter/X and any new messages aren't from me. You can still follow me on BlueSky. Please spread the word here and also on Twitter/X.

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New post! On removing students from lessons, and the pain and angst it brings. Please share if you can :) open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

How do you help students write clear scientific methods without spoon-feeding? I’ve shared exactly how I use it in the classroom here 👇 teachingsciencecom.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/s...

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Are people doing 'eduthreads' any more? Thought I'd give one a go. Some thoughts on the 'revolution' of whole-class feedback (and a cautionary tale). #EduSky

I've never really got on with Bluesky so haven't been on - is there still a teacher community here?

Let's all do it! bsky.app/profile/just...

Confidence in staff meetings isn’t equal 😥 Younger teachers (20s-30s) are less likely to feel “very confident” speaking up than those 40+ (24% vs 33%), with 7-9% in both groups saying they feel “not confident at all.” Women consistently feel less confident than men.

At the departure gate at an airport ... I've seen better :-) #ITeachPhysics #SciTeachUK

🚨 Giveaway! 🎉 5 copies of my new book Questioning for Teaching & Learning. 💡 To enter repost this post! 🗓 Winners announced Monday 5th January 2026 at 6 pm UK time. Happy new year all. Here's to a healthy & happy 2026!

Happy New Year's Eve everyone. If you are a teacher (or indeed anyone) still posting on X, I have a suggested New Year's Resolution for you. Stop! If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there. open.substack.com/pub/markgood...

Interesting Energy graphic 🙂 #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

NEW POST Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time. Please do share if you can 🙏🙏 carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-long-t...

This is a great read! www.aft.org/ae/winter202... #edusky #teachlearnsky

I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot: “The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”

Are predicted grades accurate? This wonderful blog from @fftedudatalab.bsky.social explores the question, and my takehome is that *on average* they might be, but for an individual student it's pretty much guesswork. Well worth a read. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/12/pred...

We are continuing to share our Secondary Reading resources on our website: 1B - Pre-teach vocabulary and the subject knowledge that is required to access the main ideas researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ou...

When I have set a class questions to complete independently, I spend around 10%-20% of the time at the start standing at the front of the classroom. Seemingly doing nothing. I mentioned this to a colleague who asked "but shouldn't you be circulating?" No. 🧵

Hi #Edusky How can we deal with those Sunday night blues? Often they are caused by things outside our control. New post with some practical advice. open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...

New blog by a new blogger!! It's all about the value of writing notes Read, enjoy, share! ramblingfromtheclassroom.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/a...

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

1. A speech I give to every class before I give back assessments. "I know how much you want to know what you got and how you did compared to everyone else. That's natural. However we are absolutely not going to share scores in this lesson. I expect absolute silence when I give them back to you..

Not been on here for months but someone on X said people were missing blogs. I am now writing on substack for anyone interested. My latest post is here. open.substack.com/pub/richardw...

Interesting read. This well-known finding should be discussed (acknowledged?) more often in discussions about large-scale achievement testing and accountability systems. doi.org/10.3390/educ... #Edusky #teachlearnsky

NEW POST On questioning, respect, and hearing the voice of every child. Link in reply, please share if you can! 🙏🙏 open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

I'm in between projects so tentatively looking at what's next. I've been bowled away by the success of my KS3 books so looking at doing the same for Physics GCSE. Some sample sheets can be found here: sciencedoctor.school.blog/ks4-project/ Feedback welcome!

New Blog Post 📝 Etymology in science usually stops at just photosynthesis, but I use it almost every single lesson. Here are a few stories of some of my lessons and the impact teaching etymology has made on pupil understanding and literacy. inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/e...

The national gap between "What SLT think happen in their schools" And "What actually happens in their schools" Is huge carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/autonomy-a...

📍Welcome to the UK Teaching feed. This feed is for anything to do with school teaching in the UK. For your posts to appear in the feed you just need to include "#UKTeaching" in your profile description and then a 🎓 in your posts (#UKTeaching and #UKEd also work if you prefer a hashtag).

We could all try this #Edusky

I miss it too. This is my evaluation of the platforms now for education.

NEW EPISODE This week, we are joined by leadership maestro @mrarobbins.bsky.social, looking at the tensions and difficulties in leading schools and driving change. Not to be missed! Tune in and share if you can 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/0320...

Coming soon... I'll be sharing my 24 FREE festive science activities - one for every day in advent! #ScienceIsEverywhere #FestiveScience #BeCurious #DrJoScience or you can grab a sneak peek here 👇 bio.link/drjoscience

NEW POST On leadership, autonomy, and the disjoint between "what we say we do" and "what we actually do" Check it out here and share if you can 🙏🙏🙏 carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/autonomy-a...

I'm becoming really worried about our SENCOs. I think their job is becoming systemically impossible. They're being ground down by impossible workloads and now huge numbers of complaints, which makes it all but impossible for them to be strategic. I'm worried we're going to lose them,

Is it 'online training course'?

Free website that lets you create circuit diagrams to use in presentations and worksheets youtube.com/shorts/Bf9Sh... #edusky #science #scienceteaching #uked

With the new Ofsted toolkit removing deep dives, subject leaders need a new way to consider quality assurance. I’ve shared a practical Subject Leader Self-Audit Tool to help evidence strengths and plan next steps within the 2025 framework. Download it here: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...

Helpful and free to all...sharing at it's best!

I think it probably behoves us, as science teachers, to have a bit of a handle on the whole double-helix thing. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Was Franklin's work exceptional and essential - yes. Was it appropriately acknowledged in the Watson & Crick (1953) paper - no.

*** NEW POST *** open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p... Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.

Some people claim that a positive of Sweller's work is that it goes back to the 80s. However, he built this work on the computer metaphor. Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s. Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT. #EduSky

This year I've been very specific with my classes about what @adamboxereducation.bsky.social calls "Golden Silence." As in "when you're listening to me I want Golden Silence - it sounds like.." Or. "When you begin writing I want Golden Silence," so say if you need help now. It's a habit I'll keep.

It's time to move on from the storage and retrieval metaphor of memory. How would teaching change with an enactive view? ● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted. Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".

NEW POST Almost every school I know has a list of Teaching and Learning or curriculum "non-negotiables." But is that a good term to use in schools? Please share if you can 🙏🙏 substack.com/home/post/p-...