Introducing our new teacher standing desks! Helps staff support scholars in lesson and rapidly check for understanding. Fully adjustable too! Visualisers for modelling and booklets to teach from.
David Scales
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David Scales
@MrDavidScales
Sheffield, England
Joined August 2013
- Also great to see that the site continues to develop. These posters were designed by our excellent librarian, Mr Harris, and are in every classroom - and now on the corridors to reinforce our message and ethos.
- Clarity and accountability at each duty point - a booklet with granular detail and what to do also exists.
- Introducing pink spots and pink lines. Pink spots - a duty point that staff must occupy if empty Pink lines - one foot either side and queue if at a T, otherwise a corridor divider, walk on left
- All staff (support and teaching) will now promote university and real alternatives outside their classrooms in these new clip frames. Small thing, but it also means we can change displays and promotions each half term. Hoping it will prompt conversations that build aspiration.
- I care about social mobility and social justice. I’ve worked in underperforming schools in disadvantaged areas for my whole career. The problem has always been poor behaviour. When that gets fixed children are safer, happier and more successful. It is vital to support this.
- These are the worst whole school teaching initiatives I’ve experienced: - Learning Brilliance - Collaborative Learning Structures/Kagan - Project based learning - Building Learning Power - Thinking Hats - VAK/Learning Styles - 5min lesson plan - iPads in every class
- This quote sums up better than I can what I feel about the situation in too many British schools and presents a call to arms for us about how to reverse these trends.
- We will be a 100% mobile phone free school from September, with a two week trial at the end of this half term. ✅ Mobiles collected in the morning ✅ Returned at the end of the day ✅ Children can be children at break times ✅ They can learn without distractions in lessons 💪🏻We are announcing today that Woodfields will be fully phone free from September. A letter has been sent to parents this morning. Thanks for your support.
- Using booklets that we’ve made ourselves rather than PowerPoints and worksheets has been transformative. It has reduced wasted time and helped scholars develop a rich body of knowledge across the curriculum. files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/502515… What are they? Why are they useful? 🧵 1/10
- Is your school in the 2006 time warp? - group work - style over substance - data drops every half term - “Buzz” - Behaviour your fault - discovery learning - comic sans - marking not feedback - PowerPoints - blame not support Join us instead - message me, look at TES
- New Half Term, new ways of working. Our running the day meeting is now a lot more about reflecting on the day before and, in specific terms, how will the day run today. This is to allow us to run the day, rather than the day run us. I’ve added the first version we used in March!
- It has come to be widely accepted that withdrawal from lessons, 121 TAs, coloured paper, fidget spinners, dumbing down the curriculum and Nando’s style “differentiation” is somehow “inclusive”. No evidence - some of this actively harmful, and for my money, exclusive.This is incredibly important, and a huge part of our system to fix. Children with SEND need help, but what if what we’re doing is sometimes a badly-informed guess? Then we make things harder for them. SEND provision is the last bastion of unevidenced practice
- We don’t add to workload, costs or parental stress by dressing up. We find a book, write a personalised message and gift it to a scholar. Tomorrow they’ll open it and have the gift of reading. Happy world book day in advance.What’s all this about?! #WorldBookDay2024
