The Real Simon Baddeley! Owner of @LiteracyEngine | English Teacher | Teaching and Learning Geek | Visualiser Master Practitioner | Lego Super Fan
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As you may know, I was hacked last week and lost access to the @SimBadd64 account. Can I ask you to please block that account and follow me here instead? Reposts appreciated.
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Oracy, literacy, di, reading, writing none of this is new/unlocking the secrets of the universe. What’s key is being armed with a toolkit of approaches, grounded in rich subject knowledge & subject specific strategies, that allow us to engage the children we teach in learning
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Blast from the past: do you remember levels and sublevels?
The great debate over whether a child was a 3a or a 4c. Does anyone miss them?
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Want to settle all of twitter in one go. Which will have the greatest impact on students outcomes in next 5 years, if you select something else, write your answer below
24%AI for student use
11%Scripted lessons
11%Oracy
54%Something else
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💡 NEW POST💡
‘The challenge of oral assessment’
“The most important question about the oral assessment challenge we must linger on: is it going to be fair and equitable for the children who already find learning hardest?”
alexquigley.co.uk/the-challe…
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This is a must read for anyone who has even a passing interest in the current education debate. It frames perfectly what the current govn is trying to achieved and how it might best do this, and the trade offs to get there. To me, it appears that standards are being traded off.
What impact will the government's new education policies have on standards?
substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
Apparently this thread is not about schools and assessments. And I'm an actual gamer! I need some time off EduTwitter 🤦♂️
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What impact will the government's new education policies have on standards?
substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
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A lot is being said about oracy (no pun intended). It’s not as simple as just get kids to speak more. It requires careful planning & for that it needs strong subject knowledge. There are some best bet approaches but we need to be careful of being generic. Subject fidelity is key.
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ICYMI What to teach, not how to teach.
Why we desperately need a substantive knowledge framework for Speaking and Listening before "#oracy" spirals us into a pedagogical time warp back to the 2010.
literacyengine.co.uk/index.p…
ICYMI What to teach, not how to teach.
Why we desperately need a substantive knowledge framework for Speaking and Listening before "#oracy" spirals us into a pedagogical time warp back to the 2010.
literacyengine.co.uk/index.p…
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🚨 New Post 🚨
Oracy: What to teach, not how to teach
Why we need a substantive knowledge framework for Speaking and Listening that tells schools what to teach, not how to teach.
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We got an email in to the podcast about oracy from a teacher who is in a school that uses Voice21. I'm interested in gathering more experiences, and specifically what it actually entails and how your lessons have changed as a result. All anonymous, please DM or email [email protected] 🙏🙏
Cold Calling is a great form of oracy pedagogy.
It is inclusive because every voice is heard and matters. It creates a vibrant, engaged classroom full of thinking and learning.
Great article here from @teacherhead with some practical advice.
teacherhead.com/2021/02/07/c…
Have I slipped through some weird portal into a parallel universe where the last 15 years didn't happen? I am truly aghast at some of the posts I'm seeing from some people.
This is precisely why the "oracy" debate divides people so strongly.
We desperately need a substantive knowledge framework to avoid this kind of woolly competency based nonsense of the past.
My thoughts from this week's blog:
literacyengine.co.uk/index.p…
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Very disappointing to see education folks burning their credibility like this. Notable, too, how many of them were sharply critical of virtual during COVID but now think a AI education is the future.
This is dangling the carrot of a 4 day week with one hand whilst hiding the dagger of stripping away the protections of 195/1265 behind the back with the other.
If Directed Time protections go they must be replaced with a fully finite working week to include every single job.
🚨 NEW: Teachers could be allowed to work a 4-day week under the Government's plan for greater flexibility
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