The Fifty-fourth Republic - Easter holidays anyone?

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Looking at twitter, the suggestion is the pulled stuff is the VAK thing.

This all puts me in mind of the woman who posted on MN "fumming" because she'd removed her child from all school RE, as she didn't want them learning about religious shit, but then lost her rag when he didn't get a part in the nativity play.

Visual, Audio, Kinaesthetic learning styles.

The Donner Party made the mistake of listening to Lansford Hastings. That double-decker wagon didn't help either!

I've taught 2 generations of Plymouth Brethren, largely because they tend to marry young but it's no different to the traveller families- I teach generations of them too.

I find the Brethren more open than JW or Mormons.

While teaching in East London I struggled with Islamic parents, largely because it was the days after the twin towers. I will never forget the librarian in the secondary I was at at the time rushing in and demanding help. There were so many boys watching it and cheering. We had months of unrest. And I really struggled relating some of the lovely year 8 boys in my tutor group to the kind of person who would cheer that.

The biggest asshat was a child who was part of a family of reborn christians a few years back though. It takes some effort to outdo fundamentalists as we know them, but this family did.

Religion- just a bunch of mostly men being arseholes and fucking people up.

Oh Herc - I thought we buried that crap long ago?

Kinetic learning got about as far as card sorts anyway given there isn't room to fucking move in most classrooms.

My local training provider still makes trainees account for VAK on lesson plans.

@CallmeHendricks

This all puts me in mind of the woman who posted on MN "fumming" because she'd removed her child from all school RE, as she didn't want them learning about religious shit, but then lost her rag when he didn't get a part in the nativity play.

That will forever be the best nativity play thread. No amount of ‘my child isn’t Mary’ posts will ever beat it.

Hang on - is VAK still a thing? I was ignoring it a good 12 years ago, except for my favourite kinaesthetic exercise which consisted in having Y10 ICT classes run round the school pretending to be data packets being routed around the Internet.

No born vak isn't still a thing, unless you train near piggy apparently. OR you work for the DfE who seem to think it's still a thing, according to something they did recently. Most places have realised that children learn best with a variety of activities, and that pigeonholing children into thinking they learn best with specific activities isn't a great idea.

Bobs across the land loved VAK.
Nah, miss. I can't do essays. I'm a kinaesthetic learner, innit?

@borntobequiet

Hang on - is VAK still a thing? I was ignoring it a good 12 years ago, except for my favourite kinaesthetic exercise which consisted in having Y10 ICT classes run round the school pretending to be data packets being routed around the Internet.

I did similar for electrons in circuits and the difference between serial and parallel circuits Also getting groups of boys to act like the particles in a solid, then a liquid, then a gas. Bit more room in the science labs.

It was just another stick to beat teachers with wasn’t it? Your fault this child hasn’t learned because you haven’t catered to their learning style. Nothing to do with the fact they’ve been pissing around for 15 minutes and like the sound of their own voice a bit too much.

Got to love a good opportunity to beat the teachers

@dapsnotplimsolls

The Donner Party made the mistake of listening to Lansford Hastings. That double-decker wagon didn't help either!

The Donner Party chat is fascinating me

I once covered a history lesson on this topic
I (embarrassingly) had never heard of it until then

Last time I was allowed Y7 I was attempting to model conduction using a queue of lovely girls as the atoms. Jokingly I asked what would happen if I warmed one end of the rod up by tipping hot coffee over it (mug in hand). The end of the rod ran screaming to the back of the room. One super bright spark says “I thought the heat would conduct not the bar sublimate”.

Hi all, sorry to miss the cut on extremist religious families and history! But am trying to step away slightly -and put my skanky house in order-. Just read interesting thread started by a confused primary mum who spent the morning trying to do aLFT on her six year-old.....

Just got round to watching Friday’s press briefing from home. Apparently LFTs aren’t suitable for use by people who’ve been vaccinated. Has that ever been mentioned here?

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@PhysicsCat sorry but what does sublimate mean?

No @RafaIsTheKingOfClay !

It’s when a solid turns to a gas without becoming a liquid first.

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@PhysicsCat sorry but what does sublimate mean?

Changing from solid to gas without turning into a liquid 1st. I was rather impressed with the kid (he’s in one of my Y11 groups this year and is still a delight to teach).

Just checked:
Was there a briefing on Friday??
Are you sure that's what was said, could he have meant that it could be side effects rather than covid if immediately post-jab? Have found 2 places saying continue LFTs after vaccination.

We've been told to continue LFTs even when vaccinated...

Oh just realised when you say "home" you mean non-UK Rafa, sorry. Doesn't change the main point though, strange!