@johnrainer
Ex teacher & university ITE course leader. Drama and arts ed. Escapee from the toxic billionaire and his fascist friends. Main mission: rid the UK education system of all traces of Gove and Gibb. Are you listening, Labour?
Only 13 per cent of secondary teachers use Oak National Academy resources in their lesson planning, DfE survey finds - despite the tens of millions spent on it.
The vast majority are using resources they’ve created themselves.
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Parental choice only really exists in metropolitan areas. Lots of communities have a single school available, or are faced with putting their kids on a bus. Most can’t afford this - or prefer to invest in their community schools.
A photograph of a deserted pub car park surrounded by bare trees on a murky day: wet asphalt, grey sky. In the centre, next to a flumpy yellow cypress tree, are a litter bin and an ornamental lamppost who appear to be sharing a joke together. The head of the lamp is bent at an angle so it appears to be looking down at the bin whose lid has broken given it the appearance of a laughing face.
In January 2021, during the third national lockdown, I pulled into this deserted pub car park to turn the van round and found a lamppost and a bin engaged in lively conversation while they thought no one was looking. Incredible.
Well, well, well...🙄
Exactly!
Robinson describes the neo-Nazi AFD party in Germany that Musk has been promoted as “sometimes referred to as hard right” 🤦♀️
#r4today
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Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage)
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.
You’re absolutely right. But drama is much more than teaching kids who want to be pro actors…
Drama teachers have been doing this for years. Time to catch up, the rest of you!
Media: Please stop letting Farage off the hook for wanting to dismantle the NHS just cos it's more fun to talk about immigrants.
This is what he wants us to copy.
To be fair if a setting has done 'warm-strict' right, they've always fostered a sense of belonging, after a fashion.
There's probably a debate about what exactly belonging means, and doesn't mean tho.
Specifically, id it conditional on fidelity to the culture of the school?
Systems theory gave us:
🟢The Law of Requisite Variety.
A regulator of a system (teacher) must have as much variety of options (skills, knowledge, actions) as the variety of possibilities that emerge from the system (class).
It's the antithesis of the "silver bullet" approaches.
#EruditePedagogy
Fabulous. Made my day!
I think @theonion.com buying Infowars with the help of the parents of the Sandy Nook victims is about the finest dish served cold I've ever seen. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
The question is, will they have turned America fascist by then?
#EruditePedagogy
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Some degree of autonomy is essential for a teacher’s professional identity. Being able to celebrate developing expertise keeps you in the job. Difficult if you all you are required to do is deliver a corporate plan and follow someone else’s script. Who would want to do that for a whole career?
I see the usual trad v prog cliches have been imported intact from The Other Place…
I agree, but my point is that that doesn’t seem likely with MAT CEOs pulling the strings.
I’m not holding my breath, and as a Labour supporter, I’ve waited a long time to see the stink left by Gove and Gibb eradicated from the system. I hope I’m not disappointed…
Hopefully the government will do as they say- balance the curriculum, and ensure that MATs and free schools follow it!
Maybe, but there are lots of schools that achieve similar results without large numbers of exclusions. Maybe the committee should be consulting them about ‘inclusion’?
And I’m not sure about Dixons being brought in to advise on inclusion t.co/v1hDw1to9H
Not if you’re interested in a truly broad and balance curriculum entitlement for all: some MATs and free schools have no real arts curriculum at all. Arts exam entries down 40% since 2010. So ‘knowledge rich’ advocates happy to exclude artistic and practical ways of knowing?
Other voices and perspectives are excluded. EYFS, primary, LAs, ITE, classroom teachers, universities, subject associations, etc. The Gove curriculum needs scrapping and starting again imho. Little chance of radical change with so many vested interests?
It’s a shame that the committee she’s assembled is packed full of MAT and ARK people. Same old same old…
The fact that MATs are able to micromanage not just curriculum, but pedagogy, and thereby de-professionalise teachers points to something wrong in the system. Time to bring all MATs into LA supervision and enforce the (new) national curriculum?