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Writing is in the news! Here is the full segment where I talk about the state of play in Australia and the positive direction that @EdResearchAU is taking us.
Rebecca Birch
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Rebecca Birch
@msrebeccabirch
Academic in Residence | Podcaster | Evidence-Informed Practitioner | English Teacher | Writer | Crossfitter
- Being a parent at parent teacher meetings is excruciating. Has anyone else had this experience? I feel like I have to pretend I don't know anything about teaching and learning so I don't come off as one of THOSE parents.
- Saw this over on the English teacher Facebook. Worth a read. Passive voice and crimes against women. Also, read Eggshell Skull. Make your daughters read it. Make your wife/husband read it. Then makes your mates read it.
- Radical idea for achieving equity: have a speech and language pathologist on staff as part of every primary teaching team and every secondary English department. So many upsides. Smart schools will be making this happen in the next five years. Intervene in literacy at the root.
- "Your job isn’t to pull perfect lessons from your perfect hat with perfect children every time like a machine; your job is to hack and slash away at the vines and grasses of ignorance. Slash away for as long as you can." (from "Running the Room by Tom Bennett)
- Did you grow up working class? What’s the thing that you have been able to afford that you couldn’t have dreamed of when you were a kid? I got braces for my own two girls. Big life achievement.
- Sometimes students don’t enjoy quadratic equations either but that doesn’t mean math teachers let students keep counting on their fingers. The canon hasn’t been created by a bunch of cis Masonics in some secret hall. We decide as a society and because these texts withstand time
- I know a few people here who would get a great giggle out of this gem from over on teacher FB
- I have a new young teacher on staff. He wants to do some professional reading. What’s your number one pick?
- Is “educator” on a Twitter profile code for “not a teacher”? Noticing a trend
- Here’s a radical idea: how about Mother’s Day school events that don’t occur during the work day? It’s not 1955 any more. Girls schools are the worst for this. I noticed that when dads are invited, it’s after work hours. Let’s start and model a paradigm shift for our girls.
- On pre-prepared materials: my team love having highly detailed programs because now all their time is spent tweaking and modifying, not rustling up lessons from scratch under the pressure of the day to day. They can put their energy into pedagogy.
- "During four years of observations, a child from a professional family would hear 45 million words, a working-class child 26 million, and a welfare child 13 million. This became known as the “30-million word gap.” 1/2
- The first time we hear about project based learning is the 1920s. This was last century. This is not a 21st century skill, just a “teaching” method that has failed us for the last 100 years #sollasydney