Latest posts tagged with #TTRConnect on Bluesky
So lovely to deliver a bite sized session to talk about moving to a strong start to A Level Maths #TTRConnect despite recovering from laryngitis and not being 100% on the day! Lovely to hear many experienced speakers and some first time too. Also lovely to see a fellow GLOW speaker too! #Mathstoday
Had a great time yesterday at @ttradioofficial.bsky.social Connect event.
Some thought-provoking ideas that came out from today from the Primary Strand. Thanks to Huma Mirza for being an excellent host for this sector and letting me share some ideas 🙏
#CPD #EduTwitter #TTRConnect
A workshop slide on using variation to explore expanding binomials.
@drbennison.bsky.social with a great session on using variation in maths lessons. #TTRConnect
Miss Morris presenting her workshop on algebra tiles.
@morrismaths359.bsky.social showing off how she uses algebra tiles to collect like terms. #TTRConnect
Amber Hadley speaking to us about practicing oracy the maths classroom!
Challenging us to use this to move away from “maths lessons are a loop of question and answer”, “not a maths person” and “answers are more important than the reasoning”.
#TTRConnect
Finally slot is on poetry. #TTRConnect has delivered on so many things today!
Common thread has been so many speakers working in schools serving disadvantaged communities.
Poetry has its place in KS3 and can be a key driver in engaging pupils- not just an add on because the Nat Curr says do it!
I got a bit caught up in Tom Bennison’s first task… and he isn’t standing in frame… but some brilliant points about variation and task design here 🤩
#TTRConnect
There seems to be a strong correlation between teachers working in schools in deprived communities and their willingness to spend a Saturday in the company of other teachers wanting to get better at teaching, at events such as #TTRConnect.
Back to English now with @xris32.bsky.social at #TTRConnect
I am trying not too fangirl too much!
Getting students to think differently is the topic...
Emphasis on knowledge..but too many students JUST focusing on regurgitating this and not thinking!
How do we get them to think...
Discussing the sequencing of teaching collecting like terms using the power of algebra tiles with @morrismaths359.bsky.social
#TTRConnect
Display stand with @benriceteach.bsky.app sitting at a table with Carousel Learning and Carousel Teaching literature.
Having a blast talking to fantastic teachers at #TTRConnect, with @benriceteach.bsky.social and @edtechris.bsky.social .
The fabulous @studymaths.bsky.social talking to us all about inner and outer tasks… what are you asking the students to do on the surface? But what is the mathematical idea that it really uncovers?
#TTRConnect
Loved meeting and seeing @hachettelearning.bsky.social authors in action including the awesome @hugheshaili.bsky.social at #TTRConnect
Up next Alun Ebenezer at #TTRConnect. (Been looking forward to this)
'From mollycoddling to meaningful Inclusion'
Goal: An inclusive school. Everyone behaves, attends, has needs met, etc.
Everyone agrees. No one thinks this is a bad idea.
Reality: School systems are broken. Behaviour is challenging
Now at #TTRConnect Ross McGill on why 'Live Marking is so Old School':
Marking 'drives teachers bonkers' even live marking.
Marking is one of the biggest drivers for people leaving the profession (workload).
What Ross has seen on his travels:
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social Having the unusual experience of watching you teach… on a screen in Manchester at #TTRConnect
Next up #TTRConnect, Writing Revolution.
Keen on this as writ9ng is my AfD in terms 9f teaching!
I find it tough and I don't feel confident so hoping for some top tips!
First up: Writing is important...low literacy costs the economy.
Its worth 50% of a GCSE grade so its key.
Charlie Desa talking to us about the pitfalls with Do Now’s and what to consider to make them better…
And how quizzing has changed this for the better in his department!
#TTRConnect
#TTRConnect now Dr Sarah Dowey talks about building an English Curriculum across a large MAT.
Bookletised curriculum...but it is NOT taught by 'a robot army'. Teachers should 'have the agency to adapt and deliver according to the way THEY teach'
Core knowledge is 'non-negotiable' but delivery is!
Playing a game of “what’s the same and what is different?” with @mr-man-maths.bsky.social
Some of these questions are from A Level, L2 Further Maths and GCSE Maths!
#TTRConnect
Mehmet now sharing with us the explicit instructions and training that went into setting up mini whiteboard routines with his classes.
Sweating the small stuff so that lesson time is maximised and he gets the data he needs from assessment!
#TTRConnect
Mehmet Zekay on Germs in education 🦠
Misconceptions are the fastest growing issue in our classroom - they replicate fast and cause trouble. So…
How do we check that students really understand what we have taught?
#TTRConnect
Pondering student engagement with @taylorda01.bsky.social
Why does it take a nosedive in secondary school?
#TTRConnect
Next up #TTRConnect is live marking. (I struggle with this so hoping for some tips!).
Feedback whilst students are STILL working...is not interrupting.
But...they need to know HOW to respond to live marking (where I need to improve).
Make sure you focus on something specific: use of quotation, etc
Loving the talk about modelling writing...it needs to be LIVE!
And articulate 'the messy architecture of thought' behind writing.
And linking to collaborating work with the pupils as a live correction and improvement process!
#TTRConnect
At #TTRConnect and enjoying thinking about Hinterland schemes of learning interleaved with main texts in English.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. (George Bernard Shaw)
Early candidate for quote of the day at #TTRConnect from Donal Hale: “Teaching is a team sport” channeling his inner George Bernard Shaw (h/t Shelley C. Cooper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... )
SO well put by @funkypedagogy.bsky.social…
We’re getting increasingly distant from the thing we’re doing or trying to fix.
Or where the idea came from.
Or even if it’s what children really need.
Does it matter what the current research trend is?
What are we really wanting to achieve?
#TTRConnect
“Teaching is neuroscience in the dark… it is the ultimate act of faith.”
@funkypedagogy.bsky.social says we’re trying to affect structural change in a child’s brain, but we have no way to check that it is working.
(+ Baby Webb watching his mum smash it from the back of the room 🥺)
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