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SecEd @seced.bsky.social · 1d

SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky

Your complete 21-page guide to success as an early career teacher - SecEd

Teaching is tough, yet incredibly rewarding. If you are to survive and thrive as an early career teacher and set yourself up for a long and happy career then you must build healthy habits from day…

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 1d

Guiding principles of inclusive teaching (via recent @steplab.bsky.social report)
1. Clarity & explicit structure for all.
2. Make lessons accessible by default.
3. Effective teacher assessment - what are the actual barriers for the student(s) in front of you?
4. Adapt Minimally & appropriately
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 1d

I always appreciate it when CPD delivers model delivery based on good pedagogy.

Amjad says his audience should do these 3 things in lessons with strategies:

Try
Refine
Ditch

-and promises he will suggest what teachers can do ‘instead of’ xyz.

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 1d

At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 5d

What are your concerns?

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 5d

(We’ve also gone totally phone / device free in the school day, which might explain the new need/enthusiasm for reading the time the old fashioned way)

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 5d

Turns out one of the girls actually wears an analog watch. She never knew how to read it until now and now she proudly tells me she can!

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 5d

I’m going on record to call that a radical, pro-democracy action. Any educative act that supplants device-driven attention/reliance with an individual’s skills is democratizing and anti-technocratic. Boss moves, babe. Boss moves.

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 8d

Hi Bluesky, reach out to your Jewish colleagues today please. 🙏🏼
#UKEd #UKTeaching

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 10d

I started re watching Orphan Black on Netflix- that show is so darn good! Any other fans out there?
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 10d

This is a shocking bit of civil rights history I had never heard of before.
Closing the pools…

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10d

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Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down.

In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal he...

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Jed @jedediyah.com · 11d

In #MathsToday we introduced spreadsheets. Students who have never written a spreadsheet formula are always shocked to discover how powerful basic spreadsheets are...

"Are you kidding me that's like actually low key sick"

williams-bhs.github.io/spreadsheets/

Spreadsheet Formula Practice

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