Booklets, Rosenshine, Teach Like A Champion, and Knowledge-Rich Curriculum
Ruth Ashbee
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Ruth Ashbee
@Ruth_Ashbee
Senior Deputy Headteacher▫️ Curriculum ▫️Culture ▫️Knowledge-Building
- THREAD: EXTREME TIME HACKING I wasted 10 years of my career teaching under a paradigm of utter nonsense but I’m taking that time back, one marginal gain at a time. Here’s how:
- “I’m tired of going into schools that have fallen into chaos because somebody decided that sanctions are wrong, and that therapeutic approaches and talking are all that’s needed “ — @tombennett71 on the money #rEDBrum
- It’s out in the wild! I really hope this is a useful contribution to the education world, I’ve tried to write down all the stuff I had to find out or work out for myself to do a good job leading on curriculum. There’s a big long list of amazing people who helped me…
- "What ideas do people have for improving literacy?" "Games!" "Posters!" Me: "I think we should have reading in every lesson" - tumbleweed-
- Replying to @IanDuntHi Ian, I’ve been teaching in state schools for 15 years and my experience is that the former is a pre-requisite for the latter. A great many children have been failed by romantic dichotomisations such as you seem to be expressing in this tweet.
- Love my tippex mouse and visualiser for following up after practice questions- we model how to answer the questions students got wrong, then take a blank copy of the paper, tippex and change the values, students practise again. Super-useful and zero prep #winning #cogscisci
- Curriculum announcement! I've been working on a site to bring together the components of excellence in curriculum work. It's an evolving site - please do get in touch with accounts/articles etc you think should be added... I hope this is useful ruth-ashbee.com
- One month to publication! Watch out today for further announcements...
- My plan to reform our curriculum
- New physics SLOP booklets - Energy, Electricity, Particle Model, Radioactivity, Forces, and Waves now all updated #CogSciSci
