Good luck to the 2025-26 UoYPGCE primary and secondary cohorts tomorrow as they go into placement schools across Yorkshire & Humberside. You’ve got this! #newteachergeneration #pgceUoYprimary #pgceUoYsecondary

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A huge welcome to our 2025-26 @universityofyork PGCE cohort! Virtual hello for secondary BTs this week, but the secondary team are looking forward to saying hello in person on Monday next week. Primary BTs already up & running!! Welcome aboard your PGCE journey at York!

Important article getting at the heart of retention problems with ECTs. Push-pull factors clear. Lots of good for thought for schools, DfE, trusts, appropriate bodies and ITE providers. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PRNJER...

Caz Coronel: “Now, more than ever, we need kindness and compassion and a genuine effort to understand each other, even towards those with prejudice.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"The ITT curriculum needs to be carefully designed & sequenced in order to maximise learning & retention: overloading the syllabus dilutes the impact of everything in it." A good piece from Yalinie Vigneswaran of @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social, @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

@uoyeducation.bsky.social a few photos of the PGCE Graduates (History, Geog, MFL) and PGCE staff celebrating at today’s graduation! #Graduation2025

Greg gets to meet Longboi at last…… #Graduation2025

Congratulations @lydiawigley.bsky.social - this is so well deserved, you’re going to be a fabulous history teacher! Stay in touch… #Graduation2025 #BrilliantTeachers

Graduation day today for all Univ of York PGCE students! Some of the brightest gowns in town donned by the tutor team (incl. THAT ‘Barbie’ gown), but achievement so well earned for Team History making @ruthlingard & I very proud indeed.. Congratulations Team History! Ready to make a difference..

So I think the mighty Helen S would be smiling down on us today: our brilliant 24/25 historians completed their PGCE, & so we invited them to choose one of Helen’s history books as a celebration gift. Helen’s husband donated her history collection to the PGCE course, with this request. They had fun!

A great cause in memory of a brilliant educator, colleague and friend. Donate if you can, this fellowship will change some teachers’ pedagogy and curriculum for the good of their pupils…. #grthistorymatters #representation #HAfellowships

Join the brilliant, friendly, talented PGCE team at Univ of York! It’s a wonderful uni to work within, & a welcoming Dept of Education. We’re looking for an experienced and inspiring English lead tutor, who is ready to take the PGCE English course into its next chapter. What have you got to lose?

@htenuk.bsky.social would like to congratulate @counsellc.bsky.social on the award of an OBE in the King's birthday honours list. Christine's contribution to the #historyteacher #HistoryEducation and #curriculum has, and continues to be, incredibly significant. Congratulations Christine!

Not a huge fan of the Honours system esp. when I see folk awarded who really don’t impress. But that @counsellc.bsky.social has been awarded an OBE makes me think someone somewhere does understand just what honours should be all about. What a rich impact CC has had on history ed. Congratulations!

Downholme exploring with a birthday pint P1

Marske Beck valley Pt1

Dales Trip - May 2025 Pt1

When your partner knows you’re marking assignments…….. #fridaypmchocboost

Dumfries and Galloway, Easter 2025

The dog’s gone full holiday mode in less than 48 hours…..

Want to be a teacher? Here’s what it’s like training with us at York: blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic...

Empathy been in the news a lot lately. George Eliot had a theory that works.

After a really busy week or two & a busy Friday afternoon ahead, the arrival of this through the letterbox at lunchtime has cheered me up considerably, as it always does!! Saturday reading - sorted ✅ #historyteacheratheart #hacommunity

These Oracy Commission Conversations are great!! Ten minutes of pure gold taking in the complexities of what Oracy looks like in all subjects and key stages. Definitely worth a listen…

A little something for Early Careers Teachers @htenuk.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social The most important questions to ask history students of all ages: identifying students’ metanarratives and preconceptions See link at thinkinghistory.co.uk/index.html

Still plenty of time to apply. Successful applicant will inherit internationally renowned PGCE history course, a superb group of dedicated history mentors + they get to work alongside the brilliant Ruth Lingard @yorkclio.bsky.social Great post in a very supportive dep’t @uoyeducation.bsky.social

As an alumni of the York History PGCE I'd like to encourage as many people as possible to go for this great opportunity. Alongside our sadness there is still hope for the future.

Come and join our friendly ITE team here at UoY, we’re excited to see the next chapter for our PGCE History programme: could you be its lead? jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/hist...

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Sad news indeed…. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Thinking about New Year's resolutions? Before you start, why not think about what has gone well over past term/year in #school, with aim of maximising those aspects to support your #teaching practice & #wellbeing moving forward. uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2024/12/16/f... #EduSky

From a history legend - a perspective stretching fifty years in our history educ community. This is the community all ECT history teachers in the UK join…..

The amazing PGCE crew are back at UoY this wk focusing hard today on consolidating learning thru’ worked examples. Here’s our Core students practising FAME techniques with peers from a different subject, & giving feedback to each other on learning consolidation success. Greatstuff after a long term!

Back to my Alma mater today, such a huge sense of happiness and nostalgia every time I return. Plus a catch up with a wonderfully supportive colleague, who I’ve known for over a decade…. #durhamdelight

So this week we’ve had an ex-chief inspector of schools who never taught posting on learning &an unpopular ex-politician who never had anything to do with edu waxing lyrical on it on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. So why might people be fed up with democracy? 🤔 🙄 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/dem...

Very much missed by many, but her legacy lives on in so many ways for all of us who knew her. She would be very proud of the revived HTEN network @victoriacrooks.bsky.social

There are some important points here, we are draining the profession from its best teachers by refusing to address the need for flexibility.

Was Aristotle right about moral decision-making? Building a new empirical model of practical wisdom: http://osf.io/w92fg/

Finding the news that French president Emmanuel Macron will move the remains of historian Marc Bloch to France's Pantheon as an honor to his fight against Vichy France to be suddenly very meaningful. 🗃️ www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

I spent today in Manchester at a brilliant focus group event centred around Reimagining Teacher Education. It’s the next stage of a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project run by Viv Ellis (Monash) & @iancushing.bsky.social (MMU).

Brooks building looking good and ready to host a forum on reimagining teacher education, as part of our BritishAcademy funded study by me and Viv Ellis 🤗 we are speculating what teacher education can and could be for the future ⏭️

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... could this story hold some secrets to teacher retention?

V worried about signals emerging from Ofsted. We have to ask what ideas will mean for senior leader behaviour. Ten ratings will incentivise lots more auditing, checking and judging as well as job adverts for AHTs with responsibility for opportunities to thrive etc. schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-propo...

It is hard to credit how stupid and damaging these proposals are. Putting the discredited organisation in charge of drawing up new arrangements was a bonkers idea but this is even worse than could have been expected. schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-propo...

Schools in England could be judged on scale of colours in Ofsted proposals www.theguardian.com/education/20... I have to say, this sounds awful!!!!!

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This thread is important!!

Such sad news, I loved so many of Richard’s books. An effortlessly effective communicator with ethics at the centre of all he authored.