Today’s bit of CPD!

Happy Tuesday! We are pleased to announce our second contributor for #ChatBiologyLive is: @ChrisGraham.bsky.social from @saps-news.bsky.social ! 🌱 If you want to come chat all things plants you can get your tickets here: buff.ly/3Vudzdv #ChatBiology #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK

We are so excited to announce our first contributor to #ChatBiologyLive ... @cleapss.bsky.social !! 🧫🔬 If you want to come chat all things micro you can get your tickets here: buff.ly/3Vudzdv #ChatBiology #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK

Deadline is next Monday!

In a slightly bittersweet situation, due to my promotion, my job has become available for someone new. The school is lovely, the students are lovely and the staff are incredible. Feel free to message if you have any questions or the advert is below: www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/v...

Tickets are live! Looking forward to chatting biology face to face next year! #chatbiology #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK

Really enjoyed this @teachertapp.bsky.social

Hello! I learned this from @mrgoodmanbio.bsky.social 's blog. I find it so helpful in understanding the point of calibration and the difference between the micrometer and the graticule. dissectingtheclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/h...

Tutor Group Think. TGT. Daily slide to broaden the horizons of tutees, introduce cultural capital and stimulate low states discussion that has no right answers. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink 👇

Don't leave me alone in my confessional. Come share your curriculum sins. @clairestoneman.bsky.social @ensermark.bsky.social teachreal.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...

To help us all get connected here’s a list of science teachers I’ve found. go.bsky.app/5qc9eAy

Next year we are hoping to take our awesome #chatbiology community offline for an IRL event! 💚🙌🏻 We would like your input so that we can try to make sure as many of you can come as possible If you would be interested please fill out this short survey: https://buff.ly/3A8jMEN

Only half an hour to go until tonight's exciting announcement! 👀 ⏰ Don't forget to follow #chatbiology or our feed on 🦋 And don't forget to enter our #ChatBiologyPumpkinCarvingComp https://buff.ly/48sntBR

Welcome to tonight's first #chatbiology question! What examples and stories 📖 are your go to when introducing the nervous system? Share and give us all your tips in the comments below! #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬#SciTeachUK

If you teach graticules with OCR A-Level then I’m running a “How to” guide to my teach them big method. Sign ups are here if you’re interested ow.ly/vuGV50SFPqx @chatbiology.bsky.social @achilleosandri.bsky.social

Final question tonight! What are your best microorganism based projects or experiments? 🦠 #chatbiology #internationalmicroorganismday #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK

Next up - how do you break down the tricky concepts of these tiny organisms? Don't forget to put #chatbiology in your reply! #internationalmicroorganismday #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK

Welcome to tonight's #chatbiology and happy #internationalmicroorganismday! First up how do you find ways to incorporate research in the curriculum? #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK

Don't miss our FREE online #AlevelBiology network! Our guest speaker @mrgoodmanbio.bsky.social shares ideas on how to teach microscope graticules( PAG 1)🔬 rb.gy/u1nu52 One week to go! A great opportunity to learn, network & ask questions. #ScienceEdChat #ScienceTeachers

Calling all #AlevelBiology teachers! Do you need help with maths skills in A level #Biology? Join this FREE online course by #AMSP. It will help you develop confidence in maths skills and improve your knowledge. Find out more here: ow.ly/1Lkp50Tfib8

Don’t forget to sign up for our #OCR #AlevelBiology teacher network on the 24/9. Our guest speaker shares best practices for teaching the concept of microscope graticules. Sign up here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ocr-biolog...

Thank you all for bringing such excellent contributions! It’s always a risk trying something new but these skies certainly seem blue! See you all next week!

Welcome to our first #ChatBiology of the new term! 🙌🏻 What Bio-focussed extra curriculars are you hoping to run this year? Don't forget to mention #chatbiology in your replies so people can follow the thread! (Remember to join us on 💙🦋 to take part in discussions) #edusky 🧬

@emma-wilki.bsky.social you made it!

Next week is lining up to be a chatrick! On Tuesdays we #chatbiology, Wednesdays #chatchemistry, and Thursday #chatphysics. I may never need go out on a school night again 😊 #SciTeachUK

Hello! 👋🏻 We are very excited to be part of this new community and hope you will join us for our weekly #chatbiology discussions on Tuesdays at 8:30pm! ⏰ We will be up and running next week so come join us to chat all things biology! 🌱🧫🧬🔬 In the meantime our website is here: chatbiology.com

If your students are back tomorrow, so is Tutor Group Think. Tomorrow we celebrate the achievements of Mark Cavendish, The Manx Missile. New slides this every day this week and every week to broaden the horizons of your tutees. bit.my/TutorGroupThink

Making a maths booklet for Alevel Environmental Science: Units prefixes Percentage change Lots of graph skills Logarithmic scales (pH, Richter, dB) Range and SD Algebra skills and random equations Areas, volumes, surface area Ratios. Colleague doing stat tests Anything obvious missing? #SciTeachUK

. @drmountstevens.bsky.social welcome to the good place

Target grades are made up. They have no validity. Nobody can defend them. They've also helped create a bizarre orthodoxy in which we discuss what grades kids "should get" which is just insane. Just have a think about what nonsense that is. The "grade they should have got "

Agree - they should never be used. Ever. It’s a ridiculous idea. The number one question every teacher should consider is: do your pupils work hard enough? Both in lessons and at home. If the answer is no, do something! THAT is the target.

News Agents episode today was all abou whether we should leave Twitter Can’t imagine any of you have strong views about that podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

**NEW BLOG POST** As I move over to BS, I will be posting regular Thread to Blog posts. Building on yesterday's post on line management, this on flexible working. Advice for employers and employees:

Who doesn't love free CPD? Many (all?) of the ResearchEd Home (2020) talks were shared on YouTube. I compiled some of them into a playlist to rewatch later. If you're interested in learning, memory, motivation and more... check it out here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Whilst we’re in sharing introduction mode. Have you seen what Chris & I did last year with Tutor Group Think? Despite sharing daily, the other place algorithm was keeping our engagement down and there were still people who never saw our Daily Tutor Slides. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Really great to see more of the excellent colleagues move from X to here. I’m not convinced we will permanently move here but it’s great to see it! #EduXodus

A reminder about OCR Biology Network event. Links here to sign up: ow.ly/vuGV50SFPqx All about my Teach it big graticule method blog here: dissectingtheclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/h... #EduXodus

A very useful app. Daily tips and feeding into creating a better understanding of the views and day to day experiences of teachers which are often misunderstood. A win win

In honour of this place being much more of what edutwt was more about, here’s an old blog post of mine with various English resources linked that I’ve shared at various points in the happier past! defyingstarsteaching.wordpress.com/2020/08/23/e...

We have tentatively set up a tent in the lands of Blue Sky. Still the same old CogSciSci, just less scrolling past alt-right posts to find us. You can use the #CogSciSci or tag us @cogscisci.bsky.social Reply below to get a follow and find other cognitive science and science teaching nerds

I don't think the links work any more, so here they are: Acorns poster: d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/production/e... Heart poster d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/production/e... RADAAR framework d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/production/e...

Ooo! A new tag... #SciTeachingUK to go with #UKEd and #SkyEd... I think we're getting the hang of this

I've made a new feed. Any post that tags with #SciTeachingUK will go into the feed. At least for now, I think we'll welcome a feed for biologists, chemists, and physicists to come together and discuss UK-based teaching. Give it a follow: bsky.app/profile/cmoo... #EduSky #UKEd

I don’t want to go back to the bad place so if you’re part of the edu-exodus & looking for people to follow, I’m going to start a little thread of some familiar faces from edutwitter already posting here. Please tag people to this thread as I know it’s tricky to get started when you first join.👇🏼

Very close to completion: #Edusky #UKEd #iTeachBio

I’d kind of like to see us show that we can move our custom elsewhere if the platform is sufficiently fascist - that would be quite empowering.

Though.... deputyjohn.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/h...

It’s fascinating that in a place with much less noise it feels harder to share. It’s a bit like how big parties are more private than small gatherings

Yes but there's so much to sort. Adverts, sexi girlz bots, it keeps crashing and that's even before we get to EM. I think it would need a change of owner and it's running out of time for that too.

Years ago a teacher asked me to write something for a Year 7 assembly to encourage students into nerdy learning. These are the positive words that came out… lauramcinerney.com/on-why-i-lea...