@figrowan

Primary SEN / Autism Art and DT teacher in the North East. Follow us at @art_bds. Member of PATERN https://xitter.cf/t.co/WyomfiUXS0.

 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined June 2011
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For many boys, primary school is a nightmare. Being forced to sit 6-hours a day, often with teachers too overworked & stressed to accommodate what they see as 'difficult' behaviour, in an institution that inevitably favours the behaviour that serve hitting gov targets.
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Brilliant series, thank you Nathan. I have huge respect for @naomicfisher and have hunted out her piece on self determination theory, which I think should be mandatory learning for all teachers. naomicfisher.substack.com/p/…
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“In a seminal study in 1973, Lepper and Greene showed that if you rewarded preschoolers for doing something they enjoyed (drawing pictures) when the rewards stopped , those children were less interested in drawing than other children who had not been rewarded” (citation in link).
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I stoically avoided all grade exams when learning flute (I was playing grade 7 pieces but it was playing in the bands that mattered) and learnt the hard way the fallacy of chasing capoeira belts!
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I remember teaching in the early 2000s and numeracy advisors working along side us in class to boost our teaching skills. We were to have their exercise books out and open at the correct page, everything pre cut etc. To maximise teaching. Fast forward 15-20 yrs and mainstream 1/
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Teachers I know who trained or were teaching at the same time comment at lack of organisation skills, scissor skills and more. I moved to SEND where this was done in class but then deliberately “sabotaged” to encourage independent organisation skills. 2/
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If executive function skills, including emotional regulation, were directly taught early and regularly and a main focus of education, and not skipped when they still don’t have it, I can’t help thinking that we’d have less reliance on diagnoses to cope with the pace of learning.
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Clare Kerr retweeted
Naomi Fisher
@naomicfisherMar 5
Last month we interviewed @FrithUta for our new podcast, Let's Talk Neurosense: the psychology of neurodiversity. She touched on many of the themes in her @tes interview, in particular should we be dividing the autism spectrum into subgroups and how masking has affected the way that we understand autism. Here's our interview. @helenlewis @Docstockk @jon_severs Why we need to rethink the autism spectrum with Dame Uta Frith open.substack.com/pub/neuros…
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YOU COULD WIN . . . a signed copy of my bestselling book ArtShaped . . . and . . . this cute Snowman! 😮 Just 'like' and 'repost' to enter (UK entries only I'm afraid) I'll pick a random winner this Wednesday evening (Dec 10th) and post it out before Christmas. 👍 🎅🎅🎅
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Clare Kerr retweeted
#WOMENSART
@womensart17 Dec 2025
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson creates art with driftwood and other found material #WomensArt #December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
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Toon dogs. #NUFC #nufcparade
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Hey Geordie! #NUFC #nufcparade
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7/ Rethink Needed 🔍: The “velcro model” (TA constantly attached to one pupil) is counterproductive for fostering independence. Adopting a "helicopter approach" aligns with best practices for building student resilience.
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Clare Kerr retweeted
InSEA@InSEAOfficial13 Aug 2024
Our special 70th birthday publication “Through Art, InSEA@70” is an open access free download at insea.org/insea-publications… and is a fascinating visual history of this important global visual art education organisation. @UNESCO @CSEA_SCEA @NAEA @NSEAD1 @Andriazaf
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Hopping on to say how amazing the latest @NSEAD1 AD magazine looks, around the subject of sustainability within art education, edited by Dr Esme Hall. Looking forward to reading and sharing with staff.
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Thank you Sir @FrankBowling @DofE sort out our schools Frank Bowling sells signed prints to buy art supplies for 100 schools theguardian.com/education/20…

Frank Bowling sells signed prints to buy art supplies for 100 schools

Abstract painter hopes to inspire young people with fine art after government cuts made it the ‘preserve of the elite’

theguardian.com
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Current school behaviour approaches are failing children. They punish them for having problems, while doing little to help them solve them. It's time we stopped firefighting with ridiculous, childist carrots/sticks approaches #education #educationmatters #edutwitter #childism
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Polly on a post-it
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