As of Monday I have a new job as the headteacher of a virtual school and manager of a childcare facility. I don’t remember applying. Wish me luck! 😉
Matthew Evans
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Matthew Evans
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- Yesterday I spent the morning visiting primary schools for my own professional development. Today I am reflecting on what I saw. Here are my takeaways… 🧵
- My daughter went to a thing about teacher training at her university today. They told her to ‘stay off Twitter’ because it is ‘full of edu bigwigs’ who are ‘stuck up their own a***s’. She kept quiet about her old man. 😂
- One thing I need to accept as a headteacher is that my teaching workforce are all now more experienced than I am in remote teaching. Respecting their knowledge is the starting point for improvement from where we are now.
- Personally, I’ll work all bloody Easter looking after kids if it helps NHS workers treat the elderly and vulnerable. My grandparents generation made sacrifices for us - time we stepped up too.
- Four things which are still desperately needed by schools: 1. Regular Covid testing for staff; 2. Funding to cover the huge expenses schools are facing; 3. Clarity in critical areas like exams. 4. Some understanding of the complexity of delivering education right now.
- THREAD: If you want to know how utterly ridiculous and frustrating it is to run a school during a pandemic, consider this…
- How to improve the impact of teaching: 1. Improve attendance - teaching has no impact on pupils who are not at school. 2. Improve safeguarding - pupils can’t benefit from teaching if they feel physically or psychologically unsafe. 3. Improve behaviour - so teachers can teach…
- I’ve been thinking hard about how we get students to think hard in lessons. 🤔 Thinking hard is important if students are to understand and remember what we want them to learn. But students can only think about what they *pay attention* to. A 🧵about attention.
- Before we rush to ‘catch up’, let’s just ‘catch our breath’. Year 10 will have missed 3% of their total school entitlement so far by the summer. The ‘home study’ weeks deplete their exposure to GCSE content, but students are not significantly less ‘educated’ overall. Perspective.
- Here are seven erroneous assumptions in calling for universal all-day synchronous online teaching:
- On my way to the Lakes to find a very high mountain, as far away from work, politics and Christmas as possible. There I will regain my mojo - it’s on tap in the hills.
- My youngest daughter wrote in my Father’s Day card “If you fail at first, try again. Love from your second child.” Brutal but funny.
- Replying to @head_teachThis farce has been going on for 18 months now. And you wonder why headteachers are retiring early. Rant over. (9/9)