Raymond Soltysek
@rsoltysek2024
English teaching. CoPI. Teacher educator. Trainer. Coach. Mentor. Behaviour, Restoration and Relational Practice. Sometime writer. Has opinions.
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After teaching young people for 45 years, today is my very last day in the classroom. What an odd feeling it is...
Off hillwalking this weekend. Checked my @GarminUK satnav, found my OS maps weren't working. Online chat with an adviser to discover the £125 I paid last year only lasts 12 months, yet NOWHERE on the product page does it say it runs out annually. Really poor stealth subscription.
Scandalous.
Exclusive: Ruth Miskin announces new handwriting programme for schools – days after government reveals new focus on handwriting, following her advice educationuncovered.co.uk/news/ruth-misk… Rival phonics publishers furious about what one described as “institutional capture” of DfE policymaking.
Is it proper for taxpayers to fund EV discounts? Why not demand car manufacturers equalise prices across their range? Petrol / diesel model cost £30K, EV £39k: why not price each at £33K?
This is relevant to how we place non-English speakers. Why do we put children who can speak 3 or 4 languages in the "bottom" sections when they are linguistically able and need a rich environment? Get them in top sections. Better yet, let's have mixed ability classes throughout.
I also worry about lumping children with poor English all together on the "blue" table. Not just the effect on their confidence, but also in terms of their exposure to richer language.
What if your doctorate is in pre-5 learning, or in post-retirement education, or memory and information retention after brain trauma such as strokes?
At least 2 years of full-time classroom experience should be an admission requirement for Ed doctoral programs
Spot-on! One of the reasons that I recommend this video and song by The Doves, to any students or NQTs, as a kind of ambient/emotional insight into a lot of the learners we work with and a toe-dip into understanding them: youtu.be/7sX4K0JRIDM?si…
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Doves - Black And White Town (Director's Cut)
A really good article.
Understanding the science of emotion could be the key to fully understanding how to motivate students and help them succeed, expert Reinhard Pekrun tells @helen_amass tes.com/magazine/teach…
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Has the ‘cogsci revolution’ forgotten about emotion?
Emotions such as joy, anger and boredom have a bigger effect on academic performance than many people realise, explains leading researcher Reinhard Pekrun
All together now; "Memorisation is not learning..."
It's crazy to me that most teachers never learn about how memory or learning happens in the brain. It would be like being a chef who doesn't understand how food reacts to heat.
Brilliant thread...
.@EnglishScotland These will be essential CPD for anyone teaching English.
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Prescribed spanking never causes bruising. Just like a rubber hose, then...
Actually no. Prescribed spanking never causes bruising of course. That would be abuse, I agree.
There we have it. A teacher dismissing education as "insane" and "stupid" while lauding what he euphemistically calls "the average man". The very essence of Trumpism.
It’s great, honestly, that this is getting the attention it needs. But it’s insane it ever came to the point where it’s necessary to write think-pieces about why it’s a good thing to set reasonable expectations and enforce them. American education has been taken over by ideas…
Definitely this...
Wise words from @ChrisYoules in his latest book. I was caught up in writing checklists & grammar-over-purpose for a long time!
Some really interesting ideas from my pal / former student / former boss (!) @afjgillespie! Keeping S6 engaged can be an issue in any school. Especially like the idea of giving students a head start on their driving theory exam.
S6 can be a hard sell but the final year of secondary in Scotland can be "meaningful and enriching" even for those who have already achieved the grades they need, writes @afjgillespie tes.com/magazine/analy…
This is rather wonderful...
This is an ugly point of view, and it isn't true...
It is an ugly reality, but it’s true: Roughly five percent of the population are psychopaths. And while it’s not common practice to diagnose young people with psychopathy, it’s reasonable to assume that some percentage of students possess psychopathic traits, particularly the…
Are teachers never to take advice from anyone? Not from reading researchers? Not from child psychologists? Not from doctors? Not from management systems analysts? Not from accountants? Not from cognitive scientists? Wow. Teachers know sooooo much...
We need to start taking advice from people who have ACTUALLY spent significant time in classrooms. The number of people who are advising schools who have never ACTUALLY taught is astounding. Our first question should be... how long did you teach for? What did you teach?
Dear Lord. Imagine training to be a teacher only to come out with this balderdash...
Some students need IEPs. However, we need to have a conversation about the overabundance of IEPs in recent years and how they often hinder schools from implementing discipline policies consistently. IEPs have become a license for students to disrupt learning without consequence.
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