I tracked the temperature in my classroom and the science office over the day. Highest temperature was 28.4°C. Blue denotes a lesson.

What is the difference between prerequisite knowledge and checks for understanding @mbdscience.bsky.social has the key definitions

I hate eating breakfast, but I can't go through to lunch without something, so I'm trying to find a healthy mid-morning snack to tide me over. Today, I made omelette muffins. We shall see if they do the trick.

At the beginning of the year, when asked which football team I support, I told my students I support a regional National League team, and now the boys give me weekly updates on how they're playing.

Two Jews can't even be shot dead outside a Jewish museum after attending a Jewish event without Woo EduTwitter retweeting posts implying it was a set-up by the Israeli government.

We will never be able to teach students 'grit' while we're prevented from asking them to do anything evenly mildly unpleasant. Until I can set homework with a high pass mark, and a detention for failing to meet it, without getting pushback from parents, there will be no grit.

Woooo! 🥳

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I see Fazackerley has written her regular Observer column dumping on schools.

AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH

AI for planning is the equivalent of thinking it's ok for children to talk as long as they "get the work done."

One of my concerns about the use of e.g. ChatGPT in teaching is how easy it is. It's the looking up the answer of teaching. Why think hard about the best way to explain something, why find an experienced colleague and ask their advice when you can just type your question into a box and get an answer

This is beautiful! Homework instructions that are supportive, encouraging and bursting with high, manageable expectations!

I'm trying to get my students into good habits with their Carousel homework - to not race through the flashcards - so I'm trying the following instructions, and so far the students seem to be engaging with the flashcards much better and doing less cramming!

I'm not saying airports lie or that some people don't know how to queue, but I arrived at the airport and within 10 minutes I was through security and in a departure lounge. And that included getting swabbed.

The three biggest myths in education: The system requires a third of students to be sacrificed to the GCSE gods. Knowledge is stickier when you work it out yourself. Discipline is bad for children.

Now, I understand why a maraschino cherry is placed inside the pineapple ring...

"She states that “only 14.9 per cent of teachers were identified as being from an ethnic minority background" [implying this needs rectifying]" Only 18% of people in England and Wales belong to an ethnic minority* background. 3.1% is not a worrying disparity. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

One of the parents at results day asked me which child was mine and I'm just going to go cry about the fact I apparently look old enough to have a 16 year old child.

I taught GCSE science to every one of our students entered for combined science*, so I have never been so invested in a cohort's results and boy have they done themselves proud 🥹🥹🥹

Good morning, Autumn. Didn't expect to see you so soon.

Why do I own an entire duffle bag of textbooks, and why did I decide to clear them out of my office in one go?

I'm getting a little bit excited about going back to work.

"Bluesky is so much kinder than twitter" ah, yes, that must be why people with the Hamas red triangle in their username are trying to follow me.

I like that my doctor is so concerned as to whether I cook my food before eating it.

Canva's pre-made lessons are giving peak 2010 Tes resources.

I, apparently, have a remarkably utilitarian view of education. There is little point in my kids loving science, being able to make good relationships, enjoying their time in school if they don't walk away at the end of it with something they can use, something that opens the doors they want opening

I knew that breaking performance reminded me of something

I'm never sure about 'collaborative planning'; not every teacher is brilliant at planning and a team should be deployed according to their strengths, not just availability.

My new school has keys to get into the labs so I bought a badge reel so I don't have to bend down but when it arrived it was boring, so I decided to add sparkles and a monogram to it.

What on earth was I dreaming about at 4am????

Hear me out, but I think the most effective thing schools could do is have very clear consequences that are consistently enforced. Move away from the increasingly popular idea that an apology is a sufficient consequence.