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

The idea (I'm not promoting it, just explaining) is that for some questioning/feedback kids should all expect to have to give an answer. Rather than relying on the four kids who always answer. Makes sure they are actually doing the paired/groupwork whatever.

You don't do it for everything. But for open ended feedback, no wrong answer types it's a way of spreading the feedback.

Ah, in that situation I will pick someone I think hasn't done the work or hasn't been paying attention. I don't only pick kids with their hands up.

As I said, I don't actually do it. Never got round to sorting out the sticks.

I use a random name generator, much quicker than sticks.

Life's too short to dick about with sticks. If needs be I shut my eyes and point to a name on the register

That should be an inspirational quote on the staff room

It's bollocks, that stick stuff. Ok in primary when you only have 30 names to write (or get your ta to do for you!) and look after, pointless in sec when you have to write out 200+ names, pick the right pot for the class eyc.

Just pick on those who are lazy, fgs!!

I do like bouncing questioning tho. Kid 1 answers, then you ask kid 2 "is that right? How do you know? "Then kid 3 gets "can you extend that explanation? "And kid 4 gets "are there any alternative answers?"

Ofsted/observers bloody love it.

Back to the superstars... They are ALWAYS geographers. Why is that??

It must be a maths thing, I don't want a random kid answering my carefully crafted questions, because if a random kid can answer it, it wasn't a very good question.

Like that one sassy, good name too, bouncing questions

They bristle in polyester suits. Yet pretend to be one of the lads im no different to you shit

wine - it's called PPPB. Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bouce.

So you Pose the question, Pause (allegedly at this point your class will fall silent as they all ponder the answer) for as long as possible, the Pounce on a random child (I assume not physically) and Bounce to another child as Sassy says.

I also like Thunks for starting lessons (who is the bigger bully - Darth Vadar or Voldemort worked well with yr 7 earlier this term though older kids seem to like the more random ones) and some of the group work ideas (bring and buy works when starting a new topic - work in groups to brainstorm everything you know then split the groups into new groups where they swap ideas but can only take a new idea if they give one too)

We were in Special Measures a couple of years ago so did loads of new idea insets. Then two colleagues and I did the Outstanding Teacher Programme and spent the sessions being smug because the teachers at "outstanding" schools were not being as innovative and exciting as us

I think there's a PPPB PP on TES using Winnie the Pooh characters to represent different questions. Tigger is the bouncing question. I haven't used it with students but showed it to other teachers who want to try it.

this is becoming a teaching thread

Elizabeth is right. Haha, the irony of starting a thread to comment on how those Super types spend all the hols tweeting about teaching ideas, then watching it derail into a thread about teaching ideas...

@LessonToolbox: Anyone else up late marking #coursework (+ procrastinating on Twitter)?

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Ffs

I bet he/she is really necking vodka and watching shite on the telly.

Fricking nora. Teachers own worst enemy

Like I said before, I honestly don't think they are really doing all that they say they are doing.

If some of them really write as many Schemes of Work as they claim to be doing, for example, they would have enough for an individual scheme for every child in their school.

Hello Remus and Elizabeth this thread is full of secondary stuff. What about us poor primary teachers?!
I abandoned lolly sticks a while ago and noticed a twitter debate about it recently. The lorded gurus hated them.

Hello, Stranger!

Primary and Secondary all welcome - unless you are currently on Twitter claiming to be marking/writing SoW/being generally wonderful etc.

The shame of getting the wrong homophone! Lauded. Arf!
I'd never be on Twitter talking about work
I have been planning this evening though.

I thought 'Lorded' was deliberate, since it's what they do to/over each other!