Calling all new teachers – let’s join forces on twitter

Weekly Maths

Two weeks in…teaching is both more thrilling and more challenging than I could possibly have imagined. I’ve never tried to hold so many (competing) ideas in my head at once whilst reacting to curve balls, from all directions, at all times. What a job, in the best and worst sense!

There are so many areas I want to make progress in the classroom, and so many ideas that I want to try, but have no real idea whether they’ll work or not. And, with a previous career as a researcher, the idea of having a sample size of 1 (i.e. me) when testing whether a particular idea helps my students to progress is, well, bonkers.

So…a proposition for any new teachers (as well as existing ones who want to get involved):

Let’s try one new teaching idea each fortnight, and tweet about its impact on student progression.

I’ll collect together any tweets…

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