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Associate Professor of Initial Teacher Education & Director of Growhow Education.

York, England
Joined December 2011
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Help please primary teachers - a survey for a student teacher's dissertation project on teachers' perspectives on the use of AI in the classroom forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/…. Thank you!
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Calling primary teachers...would you take a few minutes to fill in this survey for one of my student teacher's Y3 dissertation please? yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/… Many thanks and please retweet (how can one re-X😆) so that they get a good sample size 😊
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Whether you celebrate #Halloween #Samhain or not, it's always a good excuse to get some #SpookyScience in this autumn! FREE PDF activity pack available at buymeacoffee.com/drjoscience… [and at bio.link/DrJoScience] #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience
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Letters that were dropped from the English alphabet over time
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👩‍🏫 Come and discover the ASE Teacher Developers Network! 🌟 Learn about our Reading Community, CPD series, Science Teacher Education Hub, annual conference & more. Not a member yet? Join for just £45/year (free for trainees & ECTs)! 🔗 ow.ly/wFK950WsxHu
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Thanks @physedreview Ppl can download the full poster here ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/1…. it fits onto 1 page and my student teachers print it out on A3 and fold it into their planning folders
Love this SOLO Taxonomy Pedagogy Planning Toolkit designed by Dr Katy Bloom - York - St John University #solotaxonomy @bloom_growhow 😊
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So chuffed that the SOLO queen @arti_choke likes my lesson planning poster. You can download it here ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/1…
Love this SOLO Taxonomy Pedagogy Planning Toolkit designed by Dr Katy Bloom - York - St John University #solotaxonomy @bloom_growhow 😊
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Replying to @sciencegirl
When bees get tired of flying and carrying pollen, they can fall asleep in flowers this way.
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Replying to @bestwildclips
Inertia table cloth trick. With a Mclaren 720s. 👀😳
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8. These grandkids planned to surprise their grandma at the airport dressing as t-rex but she heard about it and planned her own surprise.
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In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵
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The GPSEP team sends you greetings from the #ASEConf2025 in Nottingham. Join the @SAPS_News drop-in session today if you're around! 🌿🔬 #PlantSciene #Education #Teachers #ScienceTechnician
#ASEConf2025 - we're ready for you! Teachers & Technicians join us at our 'Biology Practicals that Work' drop-in today & tomorrow. Try an old favourite or explore something new. Guaranteed inspiration! We are on the ground floor in the ELSC with @CLEAPSS #plantscience
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We’re at the #ASEConf2025 to showcase our augmented reality pop up exhibition on climate change in the schools’ exhibition. Each station is a different part of the climate change story for primary pupils.
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Really lovely day of writing with the fab @TheEmmaPalmer and @bloom_growhow - started the day with a skeleton outline and now have >5000 words of a paper! So nice to block an entire day to write and think
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I have spent hours on mapping out sentence structure for next year, EYFS - Y2 (separate to punctuation). ❤️ - Taught 🧡 - Secured 💚 - Automatic It’s a first draft (or so) but is anyone else in need of this, as I’m happy to share? – at Poole, England
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How augmented reality brought science alive for York kids by taking them INSIDE a cow uk.news.yahoo.com/augmented-… via @yahooNewsUK Our amazing AR science project for pupils to learn about climate change.
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Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow xitter.cf/ExtremeNature_/status/…
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Teachers will love it! 👏🏻👏🏻 xitter.cf/DaleRTyMG/status/17217…
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All welcome to my inaugural lecture 😊 on Englishes, plus an anecdote or two, at 18.00 on Thursday April 27th @YorkStJohn , Tickets available here: yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcoming… and Zoom link here, if you’d prefer to join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/8277498861…
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Can't wait! what a dream team @paulamarshall40 @KEHplantsci leading this @QAAtweets collaborative project with @MeganDSC @dranners @bloom_growhow @DocWithTheSocs @DrYusraSiddiqui @FilippoNereo @UniOfHull Join us: 11 May Inclusive Education Framework launch 👇🏼👇🏾👇
On 11 May, we will launch a Collaborative Enhancement Project led by @UniOfHull which has produced an Inclusive Education Framework and accompanying resource bank to help individuals and institutions embed inclusive education throughout their provision 👇 events.qaa.ac.uk/qaaevents/7…
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