Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
Rachel Mills
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Teacher of History and Politics. Professional Tutor working with beginner teachers and mentors. Love a good book.
Listening to this pca.st/episode/5203... It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.
What is genericism, and why is it so important? With Christine Councsell
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Yesterday I contacted the #mentors I work with to suggest some blogs I have written in response to the mentor queries I have received at this time of year. If you work with #ITT beginning teachers in #PGCE #SCITT #TeacherEducation these may be of use. A 🧵 of 9 blogs for this time of year... 1/
Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.
Geri Scott@geraldinescott.co.uk · last yr.Excl: Nigel Farage will challenge Sir Keir Starmer to accompany him on a visit to a working men’s club in the north of England to see who connects better with working people, as the Reform UK leader makes his pitch to traditional Labour voters. www.thetimes.com/article/331b...
The Trump regime is not remotely interested in "free speech", in any meaningful sense. What it wants is impunity for its own speech, while intimidating and silencing opposing ideas.
The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.
NEW: Weekend News Agents Was a pleasure to sit down with the great Jake Tapper to talk his new book “Original Sin”- about the decline of Joe Biden and the “cover up” in office about his health. Is a quite the listen. Perfect for the bank holiday. 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The truth behind Joe Biden’s decline: the inside story
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 23/05/2025 · 33m
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Perhaps notable that the Tory polling collapse in the last month has been almost entirely concentrated among older voters, while the Labour polling dip is almost wholly among younger voters.
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Important enough for a second repost. It was so short sighted to get rid of them.
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last yr.Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report and the Tories destroyed them www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The increased pay award and increase in funding to schools is welcome. The requirement that schools make further ‘efficiencies’ AKA cuts, to cover shortfall is not. And as for exhortation to increase productivity - pretty tricky when you are already maxed out and exhausted….
That headroom is not spread equally. Schools with high retention (strong relationships & culture) tend to have more experienced staff & bigger costs. In areas of lower funding gaps are exacerbated. Not at all the same as higher funded, high turnover, lower cost base. We need a level playing field.
Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social · 2y agoSchools have £400 million of 'headroom' for next year’s teacher pay rise – but this would only cover part of the recommended 2.8% increase, the DfE has admitted
Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party It's not a party. It's a company controlled by Farage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party
From MPs and donors to the backroom team, key players around the leader Nigel Farage
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If you are or you work with (new) middle leader(s) this year, I've written this rather candid summary for you! www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/a-blog-... #UKEd #EduBlogUK #EduSky
A Blog for (New) Middle Leaders
A message to middle leaders at the start of the new academic year.
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This, to me, is the single change that would do the most to improve history teaching in the UK. It could happen pretty much immediately, would face little opposition, and is cost neutral. And, like it or not, GCSE assessment rubrics are probs the biggest lever we can pull to effect change at scale.
Michael Fordham@michaelfordham.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s time to sort out - finally - rubbish source questions in GCSE (and to an extent A Level) History exams. Asking generic questions of a couple of sentences of text with almost no contextual detail is not historical and we should have stopped this years ago. clioetcetera.com/2015/07/22/w...
#HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation Great generosity from @iandawson51.bsky.social as ever Links to Wars of Roses resources below
IIan Dawson@iandawson51.bsky.social · 2y ago
If you or anyone you know is starting to teach the Wars of the Roses at A level for the first time this year there's a range of tried and successful resources here plus links to other resources. thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
We are thrilled Dylan Wiliam will join us to share his expertise about an incredibly successful programme we have introduced with the EEF Free Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) online event Wed 9th Oct Learn more: www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/efa-wi... @dylanwiliam.bsky.social #UkEd #EduSky
Embedding Formative Assessment with Dylan Wiliam - SSAT
We are delighted to be joined by Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, University College London and originator of the Embedding Formative Assessment programme, for an online bri...
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Really important new study: what learning strategies do successful students use? www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-l...
#TeacherMentoring Please could #historyteacher #HistoryEducation #Mentors repost to amplify?
Victoria Crooks@victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation working with an #ITT #ITE #PGCE #SCITT beginning history teacher this year? Please point them towards this FREE Historical Association webinar exploring how they can thrive during their training! www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
Hello #edusky! @richkhistory.bsky.social and I are running this webinar series this autumn… All about teaching disciplinary thinking (‘second order concepts’) in history…. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
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Pete Jackson@petejackson.bsky.social · 2y agoLooking forward to developing our practice more on this from @hughrichards.bsky.social and @richkhistory.bsky.social who did some fab work on this at HA Conf 24 and are running a series of webinars this year through the HA. Definitely going to be signing up as a Department for this #historyteacher
If you or anyone you know is starting to teach the Wars of the Roses at A level for the first time this year there's a range of tried and successful resources here plus links to other resources. thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
The Wars of the Roses for A Level
History teaching methods, resources for history teachers, guidance for trainee teachers
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Are you involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation working with an #ITT #ITE #PGCE #SCITT beginning history teacher this year? Please point them towards this FREE Historical Association webinar exploring how they can thrive during their training! www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! In this session you’ll hear from and be able to ask questions to both teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial tea...
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New blog post. Final part of my series on assessment in history. Here I offer suggestions to help minimise the undesirable messages we communicate through assessment and to amplify the authentic voice of the subject. #UKEd #UKTeaching #HistoryEducation occamshairdryer.wordpress.com/2024/08/25/a...
Assessment as Communication (Part Three)
This is the third and final post in a series on what assessment communicates about history, based on a talk I gave at a TM History Icons event. Part One can be found here and Part Two here. I have con...
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Previously when I've mentored ECTs our meetings have not been much more than me asking - 'How was your week?' So this year I'm making a guide for ECT1 history teachers with a weekly topic. I've completed the first section and will update during the year. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ECT1 mentor meeting programme
ECT1 History Department Mentoring Programme Week Section Topic 1 Practice Classroom routines 2 Practice Behaviour management 3 Practice Delivering explanations 4 Practice Reading activities 5 Pract...
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Very good article for #politicsteachers which looks at voting behaviour and debates about votes at 16
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2y agoThe UK’s governing Labour party has committed to giving 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote. But a sizable chunk of today’s British teens seem to like what right-wing challenger Nigel Farage is selling.
‘I am on the Russian sanction list’ must be the best mic drop retort for being called biased in favour of Russia
Lawrence Freedman@ldfreedman.bsky.social · 2y agoI don’t think you know what a military raid is. Suggest you check the definition - you will see it refers to a brief attack by a small force. This is far more substantial. Why you think this is pro- Russian goodness knows ( I am on the Russian sanctions list).
I’m an ECT in English and this year I’ll be taking my first A Level class. Any tips and tricks from fellow KS5 practitioners? I’ll be teaching Eng Lit with OCR, kicking off with Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’. #teamenglish #edusky