Those "educationalist" superstar teachers

[ElizabethHoover]

The ones who have whooping twitter accounts called toolbox guru or whatever.

Are they wankers to work with? Please say yes. They get my goat online. Even during the holidays posting away about how they mark with an iPad app only readable by goats. The kids all write feedback in hieroglyphics etc. also def don't say their teachers. Are educationalists. Go to teach meets all the frickin time.

I hate em

Dunno what they are like to work with. I find them a bit irritating on twitter for the reasons you say but also pick up great ideas from them too...particularly bad this hol cos of union confs.

One came and did INSET at our place. He was VG, engaging, funny, lots of ideas... Imagine his enthusiasm gets a bit wearing when he is yr deputy tho.

Plus. Tweet all holidays about work. So weird

I rarely get new ideas from them. Too long in the tooth

I get some good stuff from them, though I did waste money on Teacher Toolkit's 100 Ideas book and when it arrived from Amazon I went through it thinking "Yep... Already know that... Already do that... Yep... Oh come ON..." And now whenever anyone tweets "ooo, look what came in the post #soexcited!!" I want to reply "WHY DO YOU NOT ALREADY KNOW THIS STUFF???"

Guru Headteacher works at the school I used to teach in. No idea what he's like to work for but the previous head was the one who pulled that school out of the shit hole it was in and turned it around, not him.

I want to know where they get the energy. Not only are they creating fabulous resources but they have the time to mess around with Twitter, blogs and websites. I barely have the energy to scroll through Twitter and steal their stuff.

I want to know if all their lessons are all-singing and dancing or whether they do maybe one fancy one per week and talk about that, quietly forgetting all the others where the kids do questions from the textbook.

they are all SLT so don't teach.

Yes!

they also RT ANY compliment

there is some school in North Somerset somewhere that makes a business out of employing these types then running courses at their school where ( apparently) they crow embarrassingly about how great they are. Mate went and said he felt pretty sick during it.

Mind you, we've had a couple of Teach Meets at school which was essentially a twilight by any other name... Already scheduled in the calendar so not extra and it was quite nice to not suffer death-by-PowerPoint from some dullarse external know it all. Instead, everyone did 2 minutes in something they do that works for them.

John Tomsett and John Hattie have a useful contribution to make, but the rest have yet to inspire me.
I like the Values Based education guy as well, but his name escapes me.
Distinct lack of women.

I have been taught How To Be Outstanding (NB: am not yet Outstanding) by our school's very own self-styled education guru.

It involved a LOT of Post-It notes, toy trophies, endless Powerpoints and iPad apps, and very little of what I like to call "teaching".

I have also taught in the room next to his. Judging by what I could hear through the wall, outstanding it was not.

Neil Hawkes - Values-based Education guy.
Not John?

i read somewhere that TEXTBOOKS are the new craze

hollow laugh - have been in the game TOO LONG

( and I am not resistant to change at ALL)

That's a craze I can get on board with, to be honest.

All my career I've been so jealous of teachers in subjects where they were still allowed to do things like "read through page 64, copy the first two paragraphs into your book and then do the exercise at the bottom. If you get stuck ask the person next to you."

FEET UP, COFFEE ON

Most of my education was like that and I loved it.

I have a 13 year old and a 16 year old and they say that is what they do!
I work with 3-7year olds......

They are not real.

I am an AST but my holidays are exactly that. People who Tweet about work all holiday are either desperate for attention or social lepers imho.

i know of English teachers who do silent reading at the start of EVERY LESSON

Idle sods

I can honestly say in 12 years of teaching I have never taught a lesson like that. And I am no superstar showoff teacher. Quite the contrary. It's vanishingly rare that I even get students to work through a set of questions.

you got it reemer

one of the ones i follow RT this sad thing ' i have lots of things to do but no one to do it with' kind of quote thing

MATE, i thought. I CAN TELL YOU WHY

Ooh, now I've done the silent reading thing! Only in certain lessons, like when they come from three different PE classes and dribble in over the course of ten minutes, so they might as well be reading as waiting.

Our new HoD has brought in an hour's library reading lesson a fortnight for alll Ks3 English classes. Hey, I'll go along with that but I am about the actual motivation behind it.

:(

Then again, this thread has reminded me of the pile of mock exams I've brought home and not yet looked at. Agh.

Agreed. Holidays are for family and relaxation. I'll do a bit of work yes, but I won't be advertising it, especially not on a Friday night or Sunday morning whilst they're all laminating.

Silent reading sounds great!
Should be at least 40 mins a day I think.
Shall I tweet that?

I used to work with/for one of them. He was a pita in some respects as always looking ahead to the next thing and, while he was HoD (before becoming AHT and then off to greater things) often off doing other stuff while we covered the grunt work. BUT he was also v inspiring, always interested in helping colleagues develop/grow, walked the walk re T&L, had time for everyone. I used to moan about him a bit but in retrospect he's been a very tough act to follow tbh.