Asked hubby to pop to shop on way home to get some milk and nice biscuits for our visiting examiner tomorrow. 🤦🏻♀️
Fiona Leadbeater
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Fiona Leadbeater
@FionaLeadbeater
Depute Head Teacher for Diarmid Clan- Oban&Tiree High Schools. I tweet to share, I tweet to celebrate, I tweet to collaborate... And I tweet all my own views
- 🧵 🪡 THREAD: Mobile Phones This might be controversial, unpopular or uncomfortable to read but I genuinely worry about the damage mobile phones do, not just to our young people but also to us as fully developed adults. 1/7
- Adaptive teaching = high quality teaching Often good teachers don’t realise what they are actually doing to adapt to learners’ needs; it’s done on autopilot. Breaking down the granular detail of practice&being able to verbalise WHY it works for each learner is so valuable.
- So as promised, here is the first quick video to explain how I used @OneNoteEDU to create a digital teacher planner. This is the absolute basics. I’ll do a few more videos to explain some of the other things I’ve learned. Hope it is useful. Link here : youtu.be/tzQWda3vitU
00:00 - 🧵 THREAD 🧵 EXAM RESULTS: Comparing the incomparable Tomorrow school pupils across Scotland will receive their SQA exam results. This school year has been like none I have ever encountered. 1/14
- Just call me Scrooge! Sign on my door today for my S4 class. 🤦🏻♀️
- THREAD 🧵 🪡 IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LANGUAGE. 10 phrases I use to nudge norms in the classroom.
- Here’s my planner set-up in @OneNoteEDU - love being able to have everything in one place digitally but NEED to write stuff down! Perfect solution!!
- Adaptive teaching = high quality teaching But what does it look like in the classroom? A thread 🧵 🪡
- ADAPTIVE TEACHING in Expressive Arts is GOOD TEACHING in Expressive Arts Anticipate. Assess. Adapt Pitch high. ⬆️ Scaffold Up. ⬆️
- A caravan 16 miles down a single track road isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I bloomin’ love it here, even in the rain!! #catchinglight
- Ending a crazy term with some good news. After an amazing 10 years as principal teacher of Art and Design at KHS, I’m very excited to be joining the wonderful team @obanhighschool as PT Expressive Arts.
- Inspired by the wonderful @KateJones_teach and @MissH_biology I created a sketch note of what retrieval practice looks like in art and design. And I reckon lots of great art&design teachers do this already, every single period! Would love any feedback. #RetrievalPractice
- This has come up in conversation quite a lot recently with colleagues so sharing again in case it’s useful for anyone. I created this a few months ago after being inspired by @KateJones_teach second book and I found it helpful to consider what RP looks like in art&design.
