So true, and so much more difficult to spot. My son missed out on a statement for exactly this reason a few years ago despite the best efforts and support from his primary school.
Never want to see these again! Took so much time for little return. Specially with split classes. I once had to keep track of over three hundred KS3 pupils using these! So much paper, so many highlighters sacrificed!
It’s definitely not just you. I found it really hard to switch off at the end of term and am only just starting to relax now Christmas is over. Still got a week to spend some quality time with my family so trying to be positive.
We are all tired! Always am at this time of year. Whoever told you this obviously isn’t doing it right 😴
You seem to be going through a tough time at work. I hope you managed to get through the day and are feeling more positive today!
I thought you made a good point. I bet he wouldn’t reply like that if you were talking face to face.
Delaying feedback can mean the students assume their misconceptions are correct and these could become more permanent in their memory. I do, however, think important to remind students of their feedback at a later date just as retrieval practice is key facts is important.
So often comes down to funding, if you can afford to pay staff well to come in a run great clubs I would love to be in a school with a long lunch break.
Yes, but it still needs doing. Other wise schools have no choice but to shorten lunch breaks and compress the school day.
Mostly agree but in every school I have worked at, teaching staff supervise the lunch break too. Would only be helpful if schools could afford (and find) suitable lunchtime supervision.
The longer lunch needs to be structured too, needs staff to run a range of clubs/activities.
It’s madness that it isn’t but year after year…
Imagine if we taught our classes like that - same material for everyone regardless of the children in front of us! 🙄
I think this every year and I’m hanging in there. Helped me to focus on “just” being a classroom teacher and moved to a school with a couple of amazing line managers. Don’t make rash decisions but do what is best for you. Good luck.
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If there’s one plea I could make ahead of GCSE results day tomorrow, it’s in the way the media and other commentators talk about GCSE grades.
Grades 1-3 are not fails. Us or Xs are. Anyone with a 1-3 HAS GOT A GCSE. And for some of those kiddos, a 1 or a 2 or 3 can be a phenomenal result that they deserve to be proud of. Let’s be a bit more responsible in our language.
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Far too many women have been on the receiving end of harassment, abuse and violence for far too long.
With violence against women and girls declared a ‘National Emergency’, we need our male allies to stand up and call out troubling behaviour when they see it.
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