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

Yep. Old dog / new tricks etc etc.

I only follow 'real people' teachers as far as possible, ones that are not completely stuck up their own backsides.

If they call themselves, 'Educators' I am unlikely to like them much.

Wrong way around - new dog / old tricks.

or teacher guru

or ANYTHING to do with toolkits

Pmsl at Kool Aid. I bet they whoop on training days too. I loathe whoopers.

No I don't think it is obvious-some of it is, but he had lots of really good ideas for starters to get the kids thinking and suggested things like 'right, you've written me some work. Which bit do you think needs feedback?'-might seem obvious to some but worked well with my classes. I would definitely suggest him to run an inset to your slt. I got his book cheaper than that off amazon.

But jim is still a practising teacher!

it is EVERYONE"S job - Nay ' responsibility' to snark and bitch on training days. largely on a scale you wouldn't accept in your own classroom

i HATE jim now.

busy being agreeable all over the place

I liked that Ian Gilbert book too. Mind you I didn't shell out for the bugger myself.
That reminds me we had Geoff Barton do some CPD on literacy a few years back. Thought he was v good.

Geoff B v good.

Gilberts other books are a bit shit

and the ones his mates from IL write are. ESP the music one - DIRE and the little book of plenaries which gets bogged down in psychobabble

And I wished I'd had this twenty years ago.

I like the Thunks book - good for form time.

HATED this one Nonsense.

beadle is shit imo

arrogant sod

Yup.

some thunks WAY better than others

I've got the engaging learners one. Haven't found time to read it yet. Bloody data analysis.

ha! the irony!

Yes, you need to pick and choose Thunks, but some went down a storm with my last Yr 11 form.

Which year groups does the outstanding teachers cover? Is it mainly secondary?

Is Phil Beadle the one who was on a programme called The Unteachables or something a few years ago?

Where they took kids who had been excluded from school and -excluded half of them-- and taught them in portakabins?

Outstanding Teachers prob more secondary, I think.

That's the one, Tethers.

Ta, will leave it then.

I saw Phil Beadle vv recently, he did a guest lecture for our PGCE.

Hmmm, a bit marmite I thought.