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“I learnt this little performance trick in only twenty minutes!” “Outstanding!” My school is awaiting the imminent visit of OFSTED. No matter how sensible everyone wants to be regarding the matter, …

Kathryn Morgan @KLMorgan_2·

Super excited to be delivering this session on Thursday 11th Feb (7-8pm) with not only the wonderful @overpractised but also the wonderful @HFletcherWood. So if you’re interested in deliberate practice then get yourself a ticket below👇🏻 https://twitter.com/brewedclee/status/1355814119371403269

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

Just catching up on the @thetimes article on scrapping GCSEs.

It is worthy of debate, but there is always too much confidence that scrapping key tenets of school system will be replaced by better. Exams are problematic, but so are all the alternatives!

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/08/transform-education-and-assessment-just-not-yet/

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

‘5 Things I Wish I’d Known about Literacy’

So much of literacy - reading, writing, listening, vocabulary development - is wrongly assumed to be natural and innate for too many pupils.

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/five-things-i-wish-id-known-about-literacy/

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