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Cardiff, Wales hackingattheroots.wordpress.com Joined November 2011
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Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79
Engaging & exciting. Kids talk more. Adults talk less. More group. More pair. Kids tell teachers how they prefer ‘learning’. How could teacher have made lesson more exciting & engaging? Is that the direction? Sounds very familiar. I started teaching in ‘97.
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The same guidance (circled) was given 20yrs ago.

“Engaging” became synonymous with “fun.”

That wasn’t always possible so we ended up doing junk activities- i.e. very low impact but ‘fun’/waste of time, lest SLT blame our ‘boring’ lessons for poor behaviour.

Again?
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Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79
Around 28.5% of A-level entries in England/Wales/Northern Ireland receive top grades (A*/A), based on most recent results.
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Édouard Geffray, ministre de l’Éducation nationale: "Je ne vais pas donner à cette génération un bac qui serait ensuite interprété par tout le monde dans le supérieur comme un bac au rabais"
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