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3 years

Without naming your city, what is your city famous for?

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4 years

Helpful advice from Kenya! 😂

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2 years

If you’re starting as an ECT/NQT in September, I’ve put together a little thread of my top 20 general tips! As I enter my 13th year in teaching, these are some of the things I wish that I’d have known in that first year! #edutwitter @MrTs_NQTs

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Please, teachers don’t actually get paid for the summer. They get their salary spread over 12 months.

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2 years

This job advert from a Sheffield secondary is reason #417 why I will never teach in England again.

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2 years

There have been some very creative teacher-bashing comments today, but this is my favourite:

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4 years

Imagine that you HAD to have one of these in charge of the UK. Who would you vote for?

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4 years

Sorry for ruining your evening everybody!

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7 months

Why do the Welsh walk faster? 😂

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4 years

“Can you see Barnard Castle better with Lens 1 or Lens 2?”

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2 years

Testing my new toy!

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4 months

Annoy a teacher in five words or fewer.

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5 years

Thank God we have an extra £350 million going into the NHS each week to help us with Coronavirus.

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4 years

2019: ‘Get Brexit done, the EU doesn’t let us take control of our borders’ 2020: Just about every EU country shuts its borders. The UK doesn’t.

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@RogersHistory Students taking paper messages to other teachers!

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4 years

@piersmorgan @KayBurley “Can you see Barnard Castle better with Lens 1 or Lens 2?”

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5 years

Four years ago @StanwayGeorgia was sat at the back of my GCSE English class. Now she’s banging in goals for Man City and England. (Never mind ‘Of Mice and Men’, I knew that speaking and listening interview practise would come in handy!) #PerfectStudent #Determination #Talent

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4 years

Have a read of these comments and then tell me you’d like to be a teacher in the UK? In my 11th year of teaching and I’m working harder than ever. ....and you wonder why this country has a massive teacher shortage?

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2 years

That one teacher who goes too far on World Book Day

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5 years

I think my favourite thing to come out of the local elections yesterday is the fact that Jacob Rees-Mogg now lives in a Lib Dem area 😂

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5 years

My friend’s so happy with these complimentary pooper scoopers that keep arriving!

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6 years

Just imagine if @mrjamesob was the leader of the opposition, holding May to account like he does his callers...!

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Jeff Pedley

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2 years

Thinking about the time a student wrote YOUR NAME on his new exercise book….

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2 years

After all this Sheffield school advert hoo-har, please can someone restore my faith in schools’ attention to teacher well-being? Show me some positive things schools are doing! My old school used to have a ‘ME’ day - you could take one day a year off for personal commitments.

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1 year

So today was the day my wife found out that I’ve been putting laundry tablets in the dishwasher. Me also.

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1 year

The more I teach English abroad, the more I wish I’d have taught English more differently back home. I really wish I’d have focused more on vocabulary, idioms (etc.), grammar and reading comprehension and not just tokenistic teaching to an exam.

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2 years

@MerciaSchool Benefits include: sometimes you can see your family on Sunday.

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2 years

I remember a school once advertising ‘free parking’ as part of its teacher well-being programme 😬😬

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2 years

Surely it is possible to be a hard-working teacher with high expectations of behaviour, progress and attainment AND have your personal time and well-being respected by your school employer.

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2 years

1. You can emulate people’s practice, but not their personality. We may work with excellent practitioners, but their style of delivery won’t work for you. You have to find YOUR way, whilst being consist with policies, behaviour routines etc.

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3 years

I live in a city just outside Brussels, I wish that certain British media outlets would stop telling you that we have big shortages over here because, quite frankly, we don’t. Well, there’s a shortage of Farages, which is a reason to emmigrate in itself! @mrjamesob

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2 years

I have taught and led at schools with incredibly high expectations of behaviour and very successful methods of improving standards. But never have I ever considered the need to issue detentions for ‘visiting local shops and amenities on the journey to/from school’!

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4 years

Sorry I’ve been quiet recently; I’ve emigrated to Belgium.

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4 years

‘If you don’t like Brexit you can always leave’ You don’t need to tell me twice. After ten years teaching in Essex I am moving to Belgium with my fiancée and am teaching in one of the European Schools of Brussels. We move on the 24th July. #LeaveMeansLeave #TakingBackControl

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6 years

A shout out to ALL football fans, far and wide. This is a Call to Arms. We are @GraysAthleticFC (formed 1890), since 2010 we have been without a home. EIGHT YEARS!Please support #BringGraysAthHome Donate, retweet, whatever, we need the football community!

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2 years

19. Don’t let the students speak over you. Maybe obvious but the biggest ECT mistake. Waiting 15 seconds for quiet might seem like a lifetime, but if you talk over them, the battle is lost. (I also expect eye contact and nothing in hands… tapping can be worse than speaking!)

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3 years

I feel like I’ve been too harsh on @DavidDavisMP in the past, so I’ve slightly doctored this photo to make it appear like he was more prepared for Brexit talks.

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3 years

Come on England!!!!

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5 years

Spot the difference! Two hours well spent on the community clean up today on Wood Street in Grays.

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2 years

Just a line or two like this has such a powerful effect.

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4 years

Boris asks a country who voted 52% to leave the world’s largest trading bloc to use their ‘common sense’.

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6 months

I’m not sure this is what the teacher is aiming for…. ?

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11 months

If you ever want to appreciate how different the English education system is from mainland Europe, you'll be amazed by my recent conversation with a French colleague in Brussels. A short thread to share this eye-opening experience. 🧵

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Thinking back to the teacher training when I had to sit through a two-hour PowerPoint which concluded, without irony, that very few people take in information when PowerPoint is used.

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6 years

Just got a DM- was called ‘elitist’ and a ‘posh Londoner’ and was told to ‘f*** off back to Chelsea’... I’m a teacher from Thurrock, originally from Bradford... (the only time I’ll be able to sneak into Chelsea is the Stamford Bridge away end) 😂

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4 years

What is Cummings’ entrance music to the briefing going to be....? I’ll start us off: Can’t Touch This- MC HAMMER

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1 year

Today, my sociology students had to hand in their written work in a way which breaks society’s norms and values… but could still be read and marked….

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It’s taken me 13 years of teaching, but I’ve finally bought myself a laminator for at home! 😁

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Somebody on FB has just shared her daughter’s ‘Pre-K’ homework… I’m stumped 😂 Can anybody help?

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2 years

@ImogenB68058350 I’m not convinced that these are the limits of their expectations. If this is what is released in public, what are the ‘actual’ expectations!

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18. Don’t leave photocopying until the morning of the day. Guaranteed the printer will be broken or a colleague will be printing out 250 revision booklets.

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6 years

“Here is a new #challenge for all bored teens. Take a picture of a local area that needs cleaning/maintenance, and then take a photo after you’ve done something and post it”

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I appreciate that I’m no longer within the UK system, but the fact that we only have to come into school when we have lessons/events has a massive effect on teacher well-being.

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5. Separate the child from the behaviour. You probably heard this in your teaching training and it’s more easier said than done. That said, if you can learn this, it helps your own analysis and gives you a clearer head to find solutions.

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5 years

What song will you be listening to the day Farage becomes PM?

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3 years

Please don’t roast me for asking, I’m only curious but…. Is this legal? I hope so 😄

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5 years

We’re Going To Ibiza (and applying for residency)

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10 months

I still can’t believe that this was a thing! It blows the minds of my continental colleagues! 😂

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2 years

Songs to listen to while sorting out the stationery cupboard? I’ll start… Bonnie Tyler ‘Total Paperclips of the Heart’

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2 years

16. It’s ok to leave on time. Some face peer pressure to stay well after the students have left. Remember, as long as you have got all your main tasks completed and the students are progressing, that is what matters. You could work until 3am and never finish everything.

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5 years

You do know that pineapples come in their own, natural casing @asda ?

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@ChrisMasonBBC Wahoo best birthday present ever!!!

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17. Look after your basic needs. Think Maslow. Make sure you eat lunch every day, sleep well etc. Again this may seem obvious but some of these simple things get overlooked after a difficult teaching period.

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Imagine if trees gave off wifi signals, we would be planting so many trees and we would probably save the planet too. Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe. Thought of the Day, Wembley Central Tube Station yesterday.

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*SLT barge into your apartment* ‘Just act as if we’ve not here, we’re just doing a deep dive to assess the quality of your ability to keep on top of your chores’

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Well this is....interesting. The complaint of 'I always feel like I'm taking work home' - your work would be home! Thanks for sharing @Jeff_Pedley

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One thing I don’t regret about my English teaching over the last few years: -Introducing more and more etymology. It’s even more exciting at my current multi-language school!

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2 years

Watching from afar, but proud of my British colleagues who are striking to attempt to change an unsustainable system.

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5 years

“Theresa May has been Britain’s worst Prime Minster ever” Calm down people, we need to keep that title on ice...

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11. Always have seating plans… and stick to them. Every lesson is a fresh battle if you don’t. This is probably the biggest tool for behaviour management and is worth all the initial challenge. Excellent for learning names, diff. targeted questions etc.

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7. Bring your own interests into the classroom. Again, this sometimes gets lost as you try to emulate colleagues’ practice. You will have a unique set of skills and interests that will certainly enhance your teaching. Don’t be afraid to use them!

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6. Before making any resources from scratch, ask around. Either in your dept. / school or the wider community. Use the #edutwitter or TES or whatever but don’t waste hours (like I did) on something that’s already there (that you can adapt to your needs).

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2 years

A little Sicilian breakfast.

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3 years

Another nob goes into space 😂 #JeffBezos

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2 years

Sorry, I misheard you. I thought you said ‘gold fish-shaped ham’…… oh.

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5 years

Name a movie that reflects the US-UK relationship at the moment.

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1918, San Francisco during the Influenza Pandemic. A policeman reprimands a man for not wearing a mask. Why do we never learn?

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6 years

I’m in a state of shock. Not one, but TWO people let me out at junctions whilst driving to work today. I could almost be living Up North again.

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2 years

One day more! Respect for all teachers, trudging through!

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13. Always follow through on what you have promised. Both negative and positive. Irretrievable damage can be done if not. Don’t give out all your ammunition early! Learn to judge and pace your warnings, whilst still sticking to policies. This can be tricky at the start!

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At Greggs in Paddington…..

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4. It’s ok to say no, a lot. Not many jobs constantly ask: ‘Could you just….?’ and this comes from all directions (both friends and managers alike). Make sure you focus on your core practice, especially in the first few years. Of course help others, but not at your own expense.

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8. Focus on the positives. As an experienced teacher I finally started to force my mind to override the focus away from negative actions of students to the positive ones. After a bad lesson, do positive phone calls for students who did great things. It really helps!

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No idea about the source, but I find this European of map of ‘loudness’ so intriguing! Is it right?

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And don’t worry, it won’t go to waste. I’m putting it on my rhetorical devices display as an example of irony.

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How does this photo match with your definition of ‘cottage’? Yesterday I was teaching about ‘different types of dwellings’ and explained the etymology is potentially from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut”) . I hope they don’t see this photo!

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Even Chat AI can spot four glaring red flags in ‘the’ advert.

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Would you ever be able to ‘work to rule’ in teaching?

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20. Enjoy the ride! Strap yourselves in but enjoy it! Be proud of yourself and remember that you’ve joined the best profession in the world! 😁😁

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The BBC: Employees shouldn’t voice political opinions. Also on the BBC:

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4 years

*Breaking News* The Department of Education have announced the ‘BBC’ will be officially renamed the ‘CCD’.

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9. Schedule your homework to go out and come in at the same time every week. Match this with your timetable’s ‘lighter’ days (eg. when you have more time to mark) and keep to this routine! Consistency is keep and makes everything easier in the long run. This links to…..

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BREAKING: Priti Patel has urged the PM to relocate to Rwanda to form a new government there.

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Was your favourite teacher of the subject you now teach?

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10. Block out time to mark and plan. Treat this time with the same structure that is expected of lesson time. And be specific ‘mark yr9 H/W (30 mins)’. So much more gets done with time targets.

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5 years

Staff at the Thurrock Town Hall polling station tell me it has been ‘exceptionally busy’ today and ‘far more people than 2017’.

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Actual footage of me from when I used to teach in England having lunch, on duty whilst replying to emails and catching up with truants, checking in with form tutors and preparing for afternoon lessons.

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