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MadeUpTeacher

@madeupteacher.bsky.social

EYFS/KS1/2 teacher Writing Lead interested in Early Reading and Number. Swim/Cycle/Run Where is my mind? Way out in the water, see it swimmin’.

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Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · last yr.

1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.

Claudia Lewis@mbdscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

"She states that “only 14.9 per cent of teachers were identified as being from an ethnic minority background" [implying this needs rectifying]" Only 18% of people in England and Wales belong to an ethnic minority* background. 3.1% is not a worrying disparity. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

How racist are British schools?

Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The evidence suggests otherwise.

newstatesman.com

Julie Davis@anotherjules.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tarjinder is right; primary schools don’t tend to PEX a child if they bring a knife in. We work with the child, family and relevant authorities to try to understand the reason why. However, I wouldn’t want my child going to a secondary school that DIDN’T have a zero-tolerance policy on this.

MadeUpTeacher@madeupteacher.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am a FT teacher and have been asked to mentor a student 2nd school practice ( 2 terms). Apparently, I now need to do 20 hours training. ( several modules) to make sure I’m fit for purpose. This does not seem reasonable to me. I just did around 6 hours to mentor an in school trainee last year!!

Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

AI has made me even more concerned. I don't know how much I can do about it but it worries me someone could use it to go "find all examples of where Ben has criticised the government" and there everything would be in a nanosecond. It's not I worry about this now, it's the future.

Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

My trust in the stability and security of the future is declining a lot. I'm concerned that big companies or governments might use data in ways we now find unacceptable. I don't trust what we say now to hold in the years to come.

Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

A lot of my older relatives have always been deeply concerned about providing data to government/big companies and for years I was sort of "oh bless them with their old paranoid ways" and now I've 180ed and won't even give my fingerprints for the cashless canteen. ID cards now horrify me.

Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 2y ago

I will be discussing the results of our first oracy assessment in more detail with @claresealy.bsky.social on Tuesday at 4pm. All NMM subscribers can register for the webinar for free here. hub2.nomoremarking.com/trainingVideos

Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 2y ago

This term we've been working with 40 schools on using Comparative Judgement to assess oracy. The first set of results are now out - you can read about them here. blog.nomoremarking.com/assessing-or... We assessed students from Years 4 - 9 and the top score went to a Year 6!