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Resources Teaching and Learning 

Amuse-Bouches

26th April 201730th April 2017 John Dabell 5264 Views 2 Comments amuse-bouche, brain food, classroom strategies, Education, Ian Gilbert, Paul Wrangles, Ruth Wrangles, School, teaching, teaching strategies, thinking, thought grenades, Thunks

Reading Time: 4 minutes How do you start the day?

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International Job Hunting Thunks 

Teacher Stress by @TeacherToolkit

25th April 20158th December 2016 @TeacherToolkit 4518 Views 14 Comments International Schools, NASUWT, Stress, Teachers International Consultancy, Teaching Overseas, Thunks, TTkitThunks, Working Overseas, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post answers the 40th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. Does teaching make you stressed? And should

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Research Students Teaching and Learning Thunks 

What is the Point of Copying Lesson Objectives? by @rpd1972

18th January 20155th February 2015 @TeacherToolkit 7494 Views 11 Comments Action Research, Debra Kidd, Formative Assessment, Lesson Objectives, Lesson observations, MA action research, Summative Assessment, Teaching and Learning, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a blog about action research and the purpose of Lesson Objectives used in teaching and learning.

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Blogging Students Teaching and Learning Thunks 

30 Things You Should Never Say in a Classroom by @TeacherToolkit

30th December 201425th January 2015 @TeacherToolkit 11996 Views 25 Comments Bad Teaching, Classroom, Humour, Jokes, Safeguarding, Shut Up, teaching, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a short blog about teaching and learning and the things teachers should never be heard saying in the

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Blogging DfE Students Thunks Writing 

The importance of handwriting and spelling by @TeacherToolkit

6th July 201426th July 2014 @TeacherToolkit 4222 Views 10 Comments Creative Writing, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Handwriting, Spelling, Testing, Thunks, Writing

Reading Time: 4 minutes Handwriting and spelling go hand in hand. 

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Teaching and Learning 

Is self-assessment effective? by @Mroberts90Matt

9th June 201417th June 2014 @TeacherToolkit 4551 Views 5 Comments AfL, Assessment, Assessment for Learning, Feedback, Matt Roberts, self-assessment, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 36th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. Thunk 36: Is self-assessment effective? by @Mroberts90Matt

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Seasonal Staff Well Being Thunks 

The politics of school car-parking, by @LipLash_Mason

23rd May 201323rd August 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2030 Views 3 Comments Cars, Education, Parking space, politics, School, school car, Staff Room, teaching, Thunks, tin foil, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 27th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. Thunk 27: The politics of school car

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Students Thunks 

Educational hopes and fears for my own children, by @xJulieSmithx

7th January 20136th December 2015 @TeacherToolkit 1539 Views 2 Comments Assessment, Education, Educators, English as a foreign or second language, Forest Schools, Gove, Parenting, Skinner's, TeacherToolkit Thinking, teaching, Thunks, Wyedean School, Year Four

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 22nd question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top –

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Teaching and Learning Thunks 

What if classrooms had no doors? by @HeatherLeatt, School Improvement Adviser

22nd October 201221st August 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2580 Views 3 Comments Classroom, Education, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 14th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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DfE Thunks 

The day I met Mr. Gove, by Assistant Headteacher, @Cherrylkd

9th October 20129th June 2014 @TeacherToolkit 1751 Views 0 Comments Guest Thunkers, Thunks, ttkit, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post answers the 10th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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CPD Staff Well Being Thunks 

What if staff rooms ceased to exist?

7th October 20123rd December 2016 @TeacherToolkit 2370 Views 2 Comments Guest Thunkers, Staff Room, Thunks, ttkiy, Twitter

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post answers the 9th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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Leadership Staff Well Being Teaching and Learning Thunks 

Will you be teaching in 3 years? 5 years? by Deputy Headteacher @Plestered

3rd October 201221st August 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2049 Views 0 Comments guest, Russell Plester, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 6th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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Leadership Thunks 

My first term as Head, by @HeadGuruTeacher Tom Sherrington

2nd October 20121st February 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6970 Views 1 Comment Education, Guest Thunkers, Head teacher, HeadGuruTeacher, International Baccalaureate, Thunks, Tom Sherrington, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post answers the 5th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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Staff Well Being Thunks 

The day I ripped my pants at work, by education columnist @PhilBeadle

1st October 201227th October 2015 @TeacherToolkit 4026 Views 0 Comments Guest Thunkers, Phil Beadle, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 2 minutes This post answers the 4th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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Leadership Teaching and Learning Thunks 

What do you keep in your desktop drawer? by Headteacher @RachelOrr

29th September 201212th March 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2185 Views 2 Comments Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 3rd question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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Blogging Teaching and Learning Thunks 

Could you sum up your educational philosophy in 140 characters?

25th September 20129th June 2014 @TeacherToolkit 2934 Views 5 Comments Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 1 minute This post answers the second question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

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