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French and Spanish teacher. I like to play football in the park with my brother. Last weekend I went shopping. Next weekend if it is sunny I would like to swim. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/
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A reindeer to get your Y12s to buy my book! global.oup.com/education/pr...
Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with" JR then demolishes Farage, ending with "You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"
Worth listening to
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Making a good start – a free online event hosted by ALL, open to all trainee and ECT Language teachers Thursday 4th September 2025 from 18h00 on Zoom Free and open to all starting their training or ECT years as Language teachers. Booking: tinyurl.com/GoodStart25
Read blog post recently where a Spanish phonology prof noticed this with Siri, before ChatGPT. That's why I listen to *people*. And 2020: It seems Siri, Google Home, and Alexa need butchered Spanish for their systems to work. Free link: archive.ph/2020.08.12-1... #Linguistics #LearningSpanish
When your Y11s speak to a Mexican at the big church camp, JUST so they can write about it in Spanish!
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
New Blog Post 📣 Ever heard of a ‘tapas career’ in translation? In our latest blog post, Annie Rutherford & Paul Russell Garrett break down their income and workload to show just how varied & surprising a modern literary translator’s career can be. Read it here: www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...
See, the bottom line here is that crowdsourcing gets the most popular answer, not the right answer. And this kind of AI, ultimately, is an automated form of crowdsourcing.
52% of FSM pupils did not get a 4 in maths and English. 28% of non FSM pupils did not get a 4 in maths and English. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/09/an-e...
Would be interested to see how the idea of belonging/agency fits with some of the more toxic distortions of scripted direct instruction.
Lady trying to relax with newspaper plagued by friendly bees.
Good to hear Emily break through the hype and state that LLM have no place in education
Contains a bizarre section criticising education professors for not accepting the Direct Instruction Gooood, Discovery Learning Baaaad fad.
Could it be... youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66...
Could never happen here.
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When I learn pupils' names I am modelling learning. Right up to the last week of term, when I was stressing the power of giving a wrong answer in making your brain remember the answer for ever, my old Y7 said: "Yes. Like when you called Max 'Mason'." whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/09/lear...
*NEW* Round-up of research on learning - latest evidence on phone bans, practice testing, belonging, digital reading, absenteeism, AI feedback, and more. ⬇️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...
Green duck on a pond with lilly pads
Swan checking its feet.
Hunter Biden.
The best way to revise and learn everything needed for a high grade in your AQA Spanish GCSE exams next summer. Including knowledge organisers, retrieval, and practice questions. Also available in French and German. #MFLBluesky @westontony.bsky.social @oxfordsecondary.bsky.social shorturl.at/BgjvS
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
It was a distraction from the real issues that they should have been sorting: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/05/can-...
Debunking the MFL Culture Wars. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-...
This is blog is worth a read! It captures all my feelings about how they system is operating at the moment and what it does to children, parents & education professionals. It really doesn't have to be like this!
That preceding direct object agreement hurts my brain more the more I think about it.
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Not great for pupils' first day. 5 different sets of roadworks surrounding school. Not counting the ones literally at the school gates.
What are pupils learning when they meet a new language? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/ling...
Absolutley anything and everything travelling by road will need this come September. One agent in the uk I spoke to said no one’s ready - and still training for it - he simply called it a nightmare In short -if you can’t do this in a month then your goods will Not leave the uk . Brexit benefits
Mientras la ideología oscila de un extremo al otro, los profesores somos la bolita de en medio que no se mueve. Pegados por los dos lados, pero amortiguando los golpes para proteger a los alumnos.
When I learn pupils' names I am modelling learning. Right up to the last week of term, when I was stressing the power of giving a wrong answer in making your brain remember the answer for ever, my old Y7 said: "Yes. Like when you called Max 'Mason'." whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/09/lear...
Por lo general, me da vergüenza ver cómo otros países se contagian de nuestras peores ideas y manías pasajeras justo en el momento en el que nosotros conseguimos librarnos de ellas.
If you work in creative industries a certain number of weeks (eg summer festivals) the French govt used to give you a stipend to see you from job to job and tide you over.
That may work for space rockets and driverless cars. But in education, "good enough" is famously not good enough.
Learned from @creativehigg.bsky.social to call this Inclusive Questioning. Because cold calling is a horrible name. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/hot-...
Although this isn't grounds for making science GCSE a grade harder than other subjects. Just MFL. Because sexism.
Marking their territory.
The stuff on the labour market was new to me in this piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Update on AI and student literacy: interesting new research from @literacy-trust.bsky.social: literacytrust.org.uk/research-ser...
Societal and technological shifts have left teaching looking like 'an unattractive outlier in a world of remote working and flexible opportunities', according to an @ascl-uk.bsky.social report
Blimey! Fantastic morning from @creativehigg.bsky.social. Where can I start!
Very excited about this. Looks absolutely spot on!!!!!
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Read the article. It's blood tests and scans that work. The AI was usually wrong. Do the figures quoted for "success" in fact include all the wrong diagnoses? Hard to tell from the wording. www.euronews.com/health/2025/...
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The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Chef's kiss...
Great backstory, even better music. There are a couple of hours' worth of Vicente Lusitano's music on Spotify (and probably elsewhere, and hopefully more in the near future), and if you're into Renaissance polyphony or just music to sober and quiet the mind, you ought to check it out.
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
I'll say it again: Big Tech's use of AI technologies to capture education is not inevitable. Over at @civicsoftech.bsky.social, we're developing a community for resisting, refusing, repurposing, and reimagining technology in education. Join us!
Lots of people reading this today! Hope it's useful! whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...
A crime book where the reader starts to realise it was them wot dun it. Or that by continuing to read they will make it happen.
And also the independence of the Teaching Assistant. Be yourself, take the initiative to make a difference and lift pupils' standards.
What were they building with those pillars? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/look...
The third in the 'Back to School' series on Inclusion. This one is about High Quality Teaching and my reflections on why we're not getting it right yet.. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/01/n...
And where does that leave Musk?
*su Sorry. My phone doesn't like writing in Spanish.
Estoy de acuerdo en eso. Pero es nuestra labor constante y permanente. Sin presentarlo como una "prueba", con el riesgo de etiquetar a los alumnos o vulnerar si autoestima como estudiante.
What are pupils really learning when they meet a new language? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/ling...
Y arriesga enfatizar y arraigar las diferencias entre los alumnos que llegan al colegio con "capital cultural" o conocimientos pre-establecidos, y los que no.
Se trata de una prueba que se realiza antes del comienzo del curso. Y lo único que brinda al alumno es el sentimiento de no saber nada. La idea proviene de Inglaterra donde tenemos un sistema basado más en juzgar al maestro que en enseñar al alumno. No se recomienda que se emule.
Modelling all the aspects of learning: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/09/lear...
Lots of people reading this today! Hope it's useful! whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...
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www.theguardian.com/education/20.... Although it doesn't actually go into what the extra costs associated with languages might be.
Trips.
I have been making workbooks for Key Stage 2 mixed age Spanish, and have finished LKS2 Cycle A. I've uploaded them to @lightbulblangs.bsky.social as PDFs www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources-pr... and to my Sellfy shop as editable PowerPoint files ideaseducationltd.sellfy.store/p/primary-sp...
A week is 8 days, so a fortnight is twice that: 15
Only heard AI mentioned once at school today. And it wasn't a positive.
"La quincena" often means your pay packet. And 15 days is more useful because it's basically twice a month.
‘We’re winning a battle’: Mexico’s jaguar numbers up 30% in conservation drive
Yes. Another one. But less bonkers than most! www.lbc.co.uk/article/lang...
Por mucho que se diga que eso es para fomentar el afán de aprender, en la realidad, es con el motivo de producir comprobantes del "progreso" a la hora de evaluar no al alumno, sino al profesor.
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A tank?
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In case it helps this week!
Tasty!
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
To prove that Donald Trump is alive and well the White House has released this photo of him helping a lost child earlier this morning
'Decades of migration fm rural villages to urban areas by people seeking work have turned vast expanses of former farmland into highly flammable wild vegetation. About 20 people were killed by fires in Greece, Turkey & Cyprus in June & July, followed by at least 8 deaths in Spain & Portugal'
Coal?!?!
Ah. But did they try swindling pupils out of the grades they deserve? Because that works too!
Also she blames her teachers?
Ah. But did she ever buy a house? With money? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Just checked. It was a tweet containing the f word and other unprofessional language in an attack on someone.
Or if you are blocked. For politely insisting on standards of basic civility.
