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The next #SuperbSchools edchat is taking place on Sunday 17th March. We have the brilliant Daisy Christodoulou (@daisychristo), one of the leading minds when it comes to assessment, co-hosting the chat this week. Daisy is the Director of Education at No More Marking, a company that provides online comparative judgement software for schools. She is also the author of Making Good Progress? and Seven Myths About Education, two books I thoroughly recommend all teachers and school leaders read. We will discuss assessment and how schools can 'get it right'. The questions for the chat are listed below. The complete global chat times are located here, with the highlighted regions being:
 This week's questions: Q1) What are the biggest assessment challenges you face in your school? Q2) What's the right balance between formative and summative assessment? Q3) What are the most common pupil misconceptions in your subject, and how do you identify them? Q4) Whole-class feedback: do you use it and if so, how? Q5) What questions do you have about comparative judgement? Tweets from the EdChat (Wakelet Collection)
After the chat, we will collate all of the tweets into one Wakelet and post them below.
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#SuperbSchools worldwide edchat returns on Sunday 3rd March. This week's chat revolves around students that speak English as an Additional Language (EAL), or as it is described in America, English Language Learners (ELL). Over the last 20 years, the educational landscape has changed dramatically. People are more mobile than ever before. Many teachers, internationally or back in the UK, now regularly teach students that speak multiple languages. On top of this, bilingual schools are becoming more common in the international setting, breaking the conventional mould where the medium of instruction is purely English. We have three crackin' guest hosts this week - Beth Southern (@Bethan_Southern), Jane Scott (@jascjasc) and Rory O'Connor (@roconnor_EAL) - to help lead the chat. Beth is an EAL specialist and the creator of EAL Hub (@eal_hub), Jane is the primary EAL leader at an international school in Malaysia and Rory is an EAL specialist at, British International School Riyadh, where I also work. How do teachers face and overcome some of the associated challenges? Where does a student's first/home language fit into all of this? Join us on Sunday 3rd March. The complete global chat times are located here, with the highlighted regions being:
 This week's questions (posted soon): Intro) Where are you based? Is being an #ELL / #EAL learner a blessing or a curse? Why? Q1 ) What do you use for #ELL / #EAL guidance, inspiration and resources? (books, groups, websites etc.) Q2) What approach do you take when working with new arrivals or beginners? (withdrawal, intervention, support in class etc.) Q3) How do we ensure EAL students’ needs are being met without adding the stigma of the #ELL / #EAL label? Q4) Do you explicitly teach vocabulary to learners (#ELL / #EAL or all learners)? What strategies and techniques do you use? Q5) What curriculum decisions can be made to ensure #ELL / #EAL learners are catered for? Tweets from the EdChat (Wakelet Collection)
After the chat, we will collate all of the tweets into one Wakelet and post them below.
#SuperbSchools worldwide edchat is back again on Sunday 17th February. This time, Blake Harvard (@effortfuleduktr), a prolific #edumyth debunker, will co-host the chat with me. Blake is an AP Psychology teacher in Nashville, Alabama. Anyone that has read Blake's blog will know that he does not hold back when it comes to shining a light on some of the biggest misunderstandings in education.
The complete global chat times are located here, with the highlighted regions being:
This week's questions:
Click on a question to check out the threads on Twitter and join the conversation. Intro) What is your role and context? Name/tag some people or groups that share effective learning practices. Q1) What are some myths of education? Where do most of them originate? Q2) Why do you think these #edumyths continue to be used and affect the classroom? Q3) What are the best ways to combat these #edumyths on an individual, school, and district level? Q4) On the whole, do you believe social media helps to fight or proliferate the myths mentioned?
Tweets from the EdChat (Wakelet Collection)
All of the responses are collated in the Wakelet below.
Leading the second #SuperbSchools edchat is good friend of mine, and all round top bloke, Mike Armiger. Mike is the head of alternative provisions, as well as an adviser to MATs (Multi Academy Trusts) and NHS on mental Health, suicide prevention and trauma sensitive schools. He is a one of the biggest champions of mental health education that I have ever met.
The chat is in support of Place2Be's #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek that takes place 4th - 10th February in the United Kingdom. The complete global chat times are located here, with the highlighted regions being:
This week's questions:
Click on a question to check out the threads on Twitter and join the conversation. Intro) In education, what are you passionate about? Q1) How does your school support children's wellbeing? Q2) What provisions, both internally and externally, do you refer students to if they are experiencing distress? Q3) How does your school support staff wellbeing? Q4) What mental Health and wellbeing projects would you like to develop over the next 12 months?
Tweets from the Edchat (Wakelet Collection)
After the chat, we will collate all of the tweets into one Wakelet and post them below.
We held our first ever #SuperbSchools edchat on Sunday 27th January, 2019. Two top lads, Olly Lewis and Patrick McGeever, stepped up to co-host it alongside me. Olly is the Head of Science at @bis_ad, United Arab Emirates, and Patrick is the Primary English lead at British International School Riyadh.
They both were instrumental when it came to framing the questions, refining the format of the chat and getting the word out. 
This week's questions:
Click on a question to check out the threads on Twitter and join the conversation. Intro) What is your role and context? Q1) How do you use edtech to enhance learning? Q2) What improvement project are you working on? Q3)What book, blog or piece of research has had an impact on your practice? Q4) In your context, what barrier have your students faced? How were they overcome?
Tweets from the EdChat (Wakelet Collection)
For future reference, I collated all the tweets into one Wakelet (thanks Beth!). Cheers to everyone the contributed last week! Sunday 3rd February - Mental Health Edchat We have many top edu people lined up to host the #SuperbSchools chat over the coming few months. Next up, on Sunday 3rd February, Mike Armiger will be leading a mental health and wellbeing chat, in support of @Place2Be's #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek in the UK (4-10th February 2019) |
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