Ep 96: 15 Amazing Classroom Tools Every Teacher Should Try Out!

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Hello everyone, and welcome back
to another episode of Teach

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Sleep.
Repeat.

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My name is.
Dylan and my name is.

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Hayden, we've had a nice week
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Yeah, big, big thank you.
Thank you for joining us.

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So Dylan, tell me, how's your
week been?

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Oh, that classic old question.
Do you know what my week's been?

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Not very good.
Oh, I'm going to be, I'm going

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to be honest.
That's what we're here for

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because it is easy sometimes.
Like, yeah, it's fine.

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Yeah, it's all good.
I'm going to be just that person

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who says I had a tough week with
behaviour management.

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It wasn't a very nice week with
my class and classes in terms of

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that aspect of the job.
Like I love my class.

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I've built up relationships with
them nicely.

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I've been lucky enough to do
that because their behaviour is

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really good.
And across the board in all the

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F4 classes they teach, the
behaviour is of a good standard.

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And I think that kind of
standard becomes the bar, as it

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should.
And whenever it dips, it feels

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kind of frustrating.
And we're teachers that have

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been teaching for the best part
of a decade now.

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And I always say to people, I
feel like my behaviour

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management's quite good.
I feel like, yeah, I'm on top of

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stuff.
And I still think that's true.

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But do you know what?
Do you know what the one thing

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that makes me feel like a bad
teacher genuinely is?

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When behaviour goes wrong, I
kind of put out the stops that I

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feel like I've got on my arsenal
to try and like, counter it

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basically.
And it's still kind of bad.

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And like the kids are still just
talking whilst I'm trying to

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talk and I sometimes doubt
myself still as a teacher I'm

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like is this me?
Or is there a point where the

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kids just have to shush and just
have to listen and they're just

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choosing not to?
Like where does the buck?

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Lie like if another teacher came
in would they be able to control

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them?
Is it just me?

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I know what you mean because I
feel myself doing the same thing

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and I think it's normal though I
definitely have weeks or days,

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whatever a period of time where
I feel exactly the same and the

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behaviour feels different.
It feels off and I'm like, I

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actually say to my kids, I've
got Year 6.

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I quite often say to them, are
you taking advantage of the fact

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that I am like quite nice and
friendly to you a lot?

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I was like, 'cause that make,
that really hurts my feelings.

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I think, 'cause I think 'cause
they're a bit more mature, you

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can kind of get away with that.
But when you've got Year 4 and

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I've taught Year 4 in the past,
it's kind of harder to do that

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like meta approach and like hit
them in the fields as a human to

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a human.
Some get it, but a lot don't.

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And and do you know what?
They just want to talk to their

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mates.
Like it's as simple as that.

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I'm not going to lie.
I get the whole there's a big

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push in them in it.
And we had some people

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commenting on this because they
did some reals about behaviour

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and stuff this week and someone
commented.

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But the best of intentions, and
I get why they say it, but it's

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that old phrase of all behaviour
is communication.

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It comes down to there's a need
that's not being met, which is

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why they're acting up.
Yeah, sure.

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I'm not going to lie, I think
that is toxic sometimes.

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No, I really do, because it's a
really useful sentiment and

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there'll be people who listen to
me say that, who get really

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angry.
But let me explain what I mean

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because I think a lot of the
time it's absolutely right.

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When behaviour is almost like
chronic and you think of the

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children you think of who have
chronic behaviour issues, there

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is almost always an underlying
'cause if you look at their home

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life and you're like this poor
kid, man, this makes complete

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sense.
I understand why this kid is

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acting up so often and you work
towards solutions with other

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external factors to try and
solve.

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Them specific to that kid.
Exactly that there.

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There are underlying reasons.
Sometimes kids just want to talk

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to their friend, sometimes
they're just stood at the back.

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For example, this week I'm
thinking specifically of APE

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lesson.
I was trying to have the

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children.
The same children would not have

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acted this way in a maths or
English lesson in the classroom,

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sat at tables in that
environment because they're used

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to it.
And then the expectations, the

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same children outside because
it's a different environment and

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it's just seen as a different
kind of lesson, feel like they

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can behave differently.
That's not an underlying 'cause

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that's not because they're
craving some attention.

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It's because they're stood at
the back outside and they think

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they can get away with talking
with their mates.

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And they were consistently doing
it this week, no matter what I

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did split them up, gave, gave,
you know, sanctions if you carry

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on, did the sanctions, the other
children still carried on

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talking.
And it got to the point where

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there was enough of them.
And I was like, I can't safely

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do this lesson now because I'm
explaining what we're going to

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do.
I, I literally can't do it.

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So I went back inside SO.
Was it so?

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Was it just PE then?
No, it was, it was PE that was

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like the the, the kind of
tipping point.

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You took them back in.
Yeah, I did.

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I did.
I took them back in and I said

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to them, this is the worst
option possible because I

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absolutely hate I've, you're not
doing PE now because I've told

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you to me PE is just as
important as English and maths.

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And now we can, we can't do the
lesson anymore because you're

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not listening to basic
instructions.

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If we were sat in an English and
maths lesson and you were doing

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the same behaviours, we wouldn't
be able to get through the

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English and maths lesson.
And, and you're choosing to talk

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to your partner and you've got
to take responsibility for this.

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And so we sat there quietly for
a bit whilst they were

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reflecting, you know, classic I
think.

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It's reflects on your actions.
You talk sternly and the classic

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thing of we talked about it last
week, whole class punishment.

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It felt like a whole class
punishment.

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It wasn't because I literally
couldn't explain the task to the

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children.
There was too many of them on

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this thing, but it still was.
I can't have half the class go

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in and half stay out with me.
So I had to take them in and we

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carried on talking about what
we're going to do and I

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explained the rules whilst
they're in the classroom.

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Oh, colour me shocked.
They suddenly behaved.

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So that wasn't the underlying
issue didn't disappear when we

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went inside it, you know what I
mean?

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But, but I guess the the overall
point I'm making is I've been

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doing this job for nearly ten
years.

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There's no magic key.
If you're earlier on in your

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career or like me, more
experienced and you have this

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issue with behaviour, it's not
always a personal thing.

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It's not always your fault.
Sometimes the children just

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misbehave.
I reckon you feel bad because

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like you said, you've been doing
it for a long time and in the

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class and behaviour is different
and in PE they do behave

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differently.
You don't, you don't teach PE

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anywhere near as much as you
teach in the classroom.

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Right 'cause I feel like this as
well.

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And when I walk past a PE
specialist and I see them with

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perfect control over the
children and I and I do

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sometimes think what are they
doing differently to me though,

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and I and I, And it does make me
feel a bit annoyed that I don't

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really know exactly why they
seem to be able to do that

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perfectly in PA and I and I
don't.

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And I reckon you feel bad
because you got to the point

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where you did, you did a
punishment like your your final

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straw, which actually you hate
doing.

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And I know you hate doing it
because at the end of the day,

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it is a whole class punishment.
Wherever whether the majority of

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the class needed it or not
because of safety or whatever,

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it's still a whole class
punishment.

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There was still probably one
child, at least in that

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classroom, who was being
perfect.

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They were, they were.
They didn't get to do PA about.

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Ten.
Yeah, you know what I mean.

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There was loads.
I reckon you just feel annoyed

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at yourself because I know you
wouldn't normally deploy that.

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That wouldn't be your go to
advice.

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I bet if I was an EQ teen I said
I don't want to do behaviour in

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general.
Your go to advice to me would

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not be Oh yeah if that kids
messing around tell the whole

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class they're losing break, yeah
you just wouldn't do that.

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I reckon that's why.
Yeah, again, for clarity, I

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agree with you, but it was so
many of them.

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But it was that, it was that
point where I was like, if I

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said to you, right, go on, then
I've, we've just demonstrated

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it, go off and do it.
Half the class wouldn't know

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what they do.
Yeah, like it was that kind of

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behaviour.
It was just so far removed.

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I couldn't believe what I was
witnessing.

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And it got, like you said, it
did get past the point of me

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thinking, oh, the kids are just
acting up.

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It was so bad that I thought,
what am I doing?

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And I think there were things I
could have done better in

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general.
I could have maybe explained it

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quicker and more clearly.
There was dead time in PE

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because we were setting up the
next thing and the children had

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to go and get the cones in and
set the cones out.

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That kind of dead time where
I've taught English maths every

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single day, that dead time
doesn't really exist anymore

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because you've got your routines
down to a tee.

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I suppose my point is it was
twofold.

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I felt under equipped still at
this point in my career to deal

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with it.
And I think I want teachers to

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feel that's normal.
It's a good thing.

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And the second point is, yeah, I
felt under equipped.

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But also, sometimes your kids
just misbehave.

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Sometimes your kids have a bad
day in terms of behaviour.

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And you know what?
The day after is a new day.

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And I had a new day the day
after.

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And more importantly, what we'll
see is next week when I do PE

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again with that class, I'll be
really setting my boundaries

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clear before we even go out
there.

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I'll be harping back to last
week and I'll be really clear

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about what I expect.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
And we'll see if it improves.

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And if it does improve, it's a
new, it's a clean slate.

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Yeah. 100% and I think we, we
need to be really careful when

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we define bad behaviour as well
with it's such a broad term,

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isn't it?
Like to me, everything you've

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described there, like on the
scale of bad behaviour, talking

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with your mates to like, like
endangering someone's life,

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right?
You know, something like that is

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such a big scale.
And I, and I'm the same as you,

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I get really frustrated because
it's like, it's like a lack of

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my control.
You know, if they, if they, if

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the kids want to come in, the
kids come in, right.

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It's one of those days where
they just want to talk to the

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mates.
Maybe there's a big football

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game on last night and you got a
football heavy class and they

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really don't talk about this
thing, right.

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It's in the morning.
I'd be like, oh, I said, you

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know, you're showing bad
behaviour.

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Bad.
This is bad behavioural,

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whatever.
And and really they just want to

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chat to their mates.
They're not, I don't know.

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So I think there's a big
spectrum there.

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And sometimes we take it to
heart massively because we know

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I agree.
This is not.

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This is not learning behaviour.
I think the difference is when

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you are, when you know what
these kids behave like in other

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lessons, when when it is I'm
teaching, I'm literally, I can't

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express enough.
I've stood at the front teaching

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with children, showing examples
and a bunch of them were just

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not bothered.
And I said, I said to them, if

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this was English right now and I
had two kids up at the front of

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the board and I was modelling
the task with you, do you think

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that I would remotely find it
acceptable that you were just on

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the table having a chat with six
of you, not looking?

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Yeah.
And they were all like, no.

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And I was like, what do you
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I'm going to think now, then in
this lesson, which is just as

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important, but we're just
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So it feels to you as if you can

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get away with it.
And that's what I mean.

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They felt like they could get
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It wasn't some underlying
communication where they just

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needed some.
Attention.

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Yeah.
Yeah, I'm with you.

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I'm with you.
Everything you do there is why I

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don't like TGP very much.
It's down there on my list.

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A lot of people love teaching PE
and I can see why because I

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enjoy doing PE well.
It was not, we're doing

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football.
I love football, we're doing

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football drills.
I actually felt like I knew what

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I was talking about.
Do you know what I mean?

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It wasn't just some like
intricate squash skill that I've

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done before.
It was like really clear

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football.
I've trained football my whole

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life.
I was like, I know these drills,

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I can show you it literally.
And it was just frustrating when

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I don't know, that behaviour
dipped.

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That was my behaviour right
there.

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I just basically, I'm saying
you're not alone.

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It's normal.
We sit here and we've done

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nearly 100 episodes of this
podcast giving out advice and

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talking about stuff.
Sometimes it goes wrong.

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Yeah, we're not perfect.
I hate the idea that anyone

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thinks that we're just sat here
like on our high horse or things

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that we think about.
Yeah, we just, we just give

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advice where we can, but also
try to live our own advice as

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well.
And things go wrong, doesn't

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matter.
I've got a funny story for you

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for this week to try and, you
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I just sat down for about the
behaviour.

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So I teach A6.
If you didn't hear earlier, in

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science, we've been learning
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we've been looking at
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session.
No investigation about light

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reflecting off of stuff and they
have to go around like test

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different materials, do
variables.

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You know where this is going,
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So there's a one point where the
the sun was really beaming

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through and I was like, this is
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I was actually trying to model
them using a torch at the front

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and you couldn't see anything
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I was like, oh, he's ruining my
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Like the lights are off.
It did nothing and and and it

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was shining on a whiteboard and
it was bouncing onto the wall.

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It's perfect.
I can use it.

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This is like a just off the
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I can just do this with them.
And because I was like, come on,

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I know some of you have done
this before.

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You've been like, you've noticed
your watch is shining or

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whatever.
You've been shining this around

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and and as I bent down to like,
just so I guess one second to

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get the whiteboard, my head went
into the light.

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Your bald.
Head, my bald, very bald,

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freshly shaved, shiny head went
into the light.

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And you know exactly, exactly
what multiple children

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immediately commented on.
And I have that sort of banter

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with the kids.
They know it's OK.

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They know it's a safe face.
We can joke about these things

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instantly.
They're like, Oh yeah,

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brilliant.
Look.

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Look, it's actually, wow, I can.
And one of the kids says I can

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see my reflection because we've
been talking about how smooth or

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shiny surface is and like we're
looking at the science as to why

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the light rays all bounce up.
Parallel.

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I can actually see my
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Look, Mr Do that again, Mr
Sorry, Mr Stevens, can you bend

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down again?
They were like, yeah, yeah, bend

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down again, Bend down.
And I found myself stood there

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questioning my life, bent down
the front of the classroom with

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the sun beaming on my head so
they could pretend they

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couldn't, really.
They could pretend that they

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could see their reflection on
the on the scalp.

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So that was quite funny.
But there you go.

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Oh.
Beautiful, beautiful.

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That same managed behaviour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of

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course.
Sorry, I need to shake my hair

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off.
And yeah.

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Let them ridicule you in front
of the class.

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Oh.
I don't remember that.

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One of the only one kid that the
joke was, you know, went went

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away whatever yeah blew over
look mocking the work one of

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them when they had to draw a
diagram.

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No, and the diagram was
literally like a really

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scientific like lions down this
way from the torch bouncing off

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at the same angle of reflection.
All this stuff.

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My head was the my head, my head
was the surface and it literally

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labelled Mr Stevens head and he
came and showed me at the end

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like.
But were the angles equal?

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Angles are equal.
Brilliant.

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The work was good, so you.
Know, lovely work.

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Lovely work my son.
Only missed 6 lunch times, yeah.

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And I swapped the whole class
and I brought them back in and

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we weren't doing science
anymore.

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I had to explain to them the
levels and the behaviour.

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I've got 1 little story to
finish off them.

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Oh God.
And it really rattled me.

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I'll get my violin out, no?
No, no, no, look, you're honest

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once and look what he does,
honestly.

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So a lot of new listeners
listening right now and maybe

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people in the past who've found
us through whatever means,

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probably found us through social
media.

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And one of the biggest ways we
can interact with teachers is

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through posting reels.
And recently, in the last few

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weeks, I've been on TikTok and I
just thought, you know, let's

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give it a go.
There's clearly a huge audience

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of teachers out there.
And I mean, luckily for us, a

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lot of teachers have seen our
content in the last few weeks

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and have followed us and have
liked and have commented and

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it's been really good.
But we, we post quite a bit of

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and we always say in air quotes
controversial because whenever

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you hear the word controversial,
you think, oh God, these people

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just saying stuff to stir the
pot.

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No, we're just saying what we
think is the truth.

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And people don't like hearing it
sometimes in terms of the state

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of education.
And we posted a reel last week

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and it was a clip of you talking
about your friend, right?

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Bear this in mind when I'm
telling this story.

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Your literal friend who's an
actual teacher in real life, who

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told you they left teaching
because of behaviour.

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Yes.
OK.

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And we had a comment underneath.
I was just like really taken

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aback by it.
And the comment was along these

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lines of saying, Nah, teachers
don't leave because of

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behaviour.
So straight away I'm just like

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OK, anyway, on the reel of us
talking about someone who we

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know who did that anyway.
Now teachers don't need because

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of behaviour, the teachers need
because of bad pay.

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There's an amount of pay that
teachers would put up with any

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behaviour for and we need to try
and reach it to keep them in the

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job.
Stop trying to distract.

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And I thought you don't know who
we are, do you know?

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So I replied saying because at
this point there's loads of

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comments on the reel and there
are other teachers saying I left

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because of behaviour blah blah
blah.

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So I just commented what I
thought was quite cordial, but I

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was like, I can't leave that on
here because it's just insane.

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There are teachers, there are
literally teachers in the

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comments section saying they
left because of behaviour.

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Laughy face as in I couldn't
comprehend you saying no, no

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teachers don't do that.
I was like, just because your

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opinion doesn't fit with the
reality, get over you.

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This one does.
The one replied little.

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Troll yeah, I could just tag
them and loads loads control

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yeah loads of people just
replied saying I did wrong, I

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did wrong and I just like
brilliant.

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This is beautiful and I said,
and I said to the I said the pay

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being a problem and the
behaviour being a problem are

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two separate issues and they can
coexist.

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Yeah.
So her point was now you're just

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distracted as if I'm
distracting.

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What do you think I'm
distracted?

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Who do you think I am?
Yeah.

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Do you think I'm Bridget
Phillips, the education

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secretary?
Do you think that I'm an ex Tory

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from the minister cabinet?
Anyway, so I said I'm not

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distracting from anything.
I'm just, this is what a teacher

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has told me is the truth.
And I was waiting for her reply

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and I thought a bit, OK, be
interested.

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Maybe we'll have a bit of a
debate back and forth on social

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media.
Don't do that very often.

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Maybe we'll just have a little
chat.

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No, because her reply was just
are you Tories?

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Are you Tories?
Are you Tories?

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Oh, that's just I'm insulted.
I was like so my reply was my

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goodness, you have no idea how
wrong you are.

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The.
Amount of time and that we've

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put into talking about literally
the previous governments, how

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they're completely rinsed,
education, how we're right to go

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and strike, how our pay needs to
increase.

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We needed to get rid of the
Tories.

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That was a huge part.
Of our you know, but my point is

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the one thing just because we
said something you don't like

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hearing.
Yeah, doesn't mean.

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And it's not even a Tory thing.
I know it's like what?

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Am I just I never said we
shouldn't get paid more.

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I said people are leaving
because maybe it's got worse.

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What is wrong with you anyway?
No reply since so no, it's going

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oh man.
But just then there's some

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social media and and the issue
with Reels when we do a podcast.

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Short, short form content when
we have an hour podcast a week,

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like it just doesn't.
I get it.

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Like people are obviously going
to get it.

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Hooks people, but yeah, yeah,
yeah.

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But that's why we appreciate you
guys right now who nearly 20

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minutes into this podcast,
they're putting the time in to

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just listening to what we have
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It's amazing to me.
So I think about the actual

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theatres and stuff that we could
fill now with like our

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listeners.
And when you actually put the

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number on the screen, to imagine
that many people sat down in a

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room listening to you every
week, it's insane.

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So we appreciate you guys.
Thank you for not calling us.

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Tories Can.
You Can you imagine I sat here

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right now with those people
there, I think we'd be suddenly

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like, back to episode 10.
Welcome to the Live.

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Do you know what?
Episode.

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I listened to I listened to the
start of episode 2 recently

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because I thought how far have
we got?

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Hello, everyone.
Welcome back to another episode

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of Teach Seat Repeat.
My name is Dylan Price.

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My name is Hayden.
And we are primary school

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teachers.
Hayden.

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And because we used to do it
remote and not in the same room,

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there is just a gap.
And.

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How are you?
I'm all right.

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Thanks.
How are you?

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Yeah, I'm OK.
Thank you.

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And.
We were trying so hard to be

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like supernatural and normal and
show us how much that even when

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you think you think you are, we
were so like, like, yeah, we've

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got this.
This is going to sound really

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chilled.
It just doesn't does it sounds.

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So probably maybe we'll look
back in a year to now and still

455
00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:52,680
be.
I don't think so.

456
00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:53,960
I think we're going to.
Put it on him.

457
00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,480
Yeah, I mean, there's no way the
thing goes on and we're just

458
00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,400
setting up a chat.
As you can probably tell, we're

459
00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,240
20 minutes in and we're still
chatting.

460
00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,280
Absolutely nonsense.
But yeah, yeah, I don't know.

461
00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,320
It riled me up because I just
thought you couldn't be further

462
00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:06,960
from the truth.
And we are completely on the

463
00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,680
side of teachers and you've just
seen this snippet and not liked

464
00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,920
it and therefore formed your
opinion of someone immediately.

465
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,520
And I just thought to myself,
God, I reckon I used to be like

466
00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,480
that.
I recognise.

467
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,360
What's changed you?
Is it doing all this?

468
00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,640
Now, maybe a little bit, but
what I mean is I don't

469
00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,440
necessarily see one thing.
And I jumped to the conclusion

470
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,960
you're against me.
Yeah, it was the distracting

471
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,080
comment.
I think more than anything.

472
00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,680
Don't distract.
What do you I'm not.

473
00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,200
Do you think I'm GB News?
Like do you think I'm like the

474
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,520
the media conglomerate?
I'm just a fellow who's a

475
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,160
teacher, whose mates are they
left because of behaviour?

476
00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,160
Some Tik Toks basically.
Right.

477
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,920
Let's let's play the Jingle.
Let's move on to why we're here.

478
00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,120
I'm really looking forward to
this episode actually talking

479
00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:50,600
about all of the really useful
things that teachers should be

480
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,200
using in the classroom from our
experience, from what we've seen

481
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,280
other people post about.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward

482
00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,760
to it.
Let's do it.

483
00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,520
A little bit of context as to
what inspired this episode this

484
00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,760
week.
I suppose we are going to BET UK

485
00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,480
this week on Thursday.
We'll be there.

486
00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,040
We're really looking forward to
it.

487
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,480
We get to see loads of different
Ed tech companies who kind of

488
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,520
converge together in one place.
It's held at the London Excel

489
00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:20,240
Centre and I'm really excited to
kind of get inspired but also to

490
00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,440
talk to these people who are
innovating in the education

491
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,120
sector and at the end of the
day, hopefully making teachers

492
00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:29,400
lives easier and getting better
outcomes for the kids.

493
00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,040
I was shocked to see how many
companies going to be there.

494
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,120
I really was.
I saw the list and it is

495
00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,240
hundreds and hundreds companies.
So I'm really excited to

496
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,400
hopefully find some new stuff
and teachers.

497
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,240
You can go for free now.
I say this as if people don't

498
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,360
work on the Wednesday, Friday
it's open, but if you are off on

499
00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:45,760
that day for whatever reason,
you can go.

500
00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,960
Or if your school allow you to
go, yeah, that's true.

501
00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,400
A lot of schools have you get
the day out as a like a kind of

502
00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,920
CPD kind of thing where you look
for experiences and ideas for

503
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,360
your school to implement.
We will be at a stall of one of

504
00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:00,640
the companies now.
We've been invited the long by

505
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,160
them.
We're going to set up store

506
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,200
there.
We're going to do some

507
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,600
interviews.
I think we're going to do some

508
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,040
content.
So look out for that on our

509
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,240
social media platforms.
Follow us on Instagram at

510
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,520
Teachspeakpodcast.
Follow us on Tiktok at

511
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,600
Teachsleeprepeatpodcast.
So keep an eye out for that.

512
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,920
But yeah, it is one of the Ed
tech companies in our list.

513
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,280
So when we get there, we'll tell
you all.

514
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:26,080
About serious Who will it be?
It's LBQ legend.

515
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,720
We'll talk about that more
later.

516
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,840
You can't keep it.
You can't keep it in.

517
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,320
I just can't.
I just love them.

518
00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:35,120
Right?
We'll get on to that.

519
00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,040
We do.
So before we do go through our

520
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,240
list of, you know, where
teachers been doing it for so

521
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,640
long, this is what's really
helpful.

522
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,520
Let's just talk about Ed tech
and resources in general.

523
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,480
Yeah, sure.
Teachers themselves, there's a

524
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,240
saying, and I do love it, are
the best resource in the

525
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,560
classroom.
Let's just get that straight.

526
00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,400
And it can be, sometimes it can
be a little bit cringy, can't

527
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:55,880
it?
The best?

528
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,720
I do love it.
Of course you love it, Dylan.

529
00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,120
You're a teacher.
What's that?

530
00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:02,600
I'm the most important thing?
Say it louder.

531
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,200
It's not this really intricate
Ed tech company which really

532
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:06,440
helps my children.
Oh, it's me.

533
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,440
We will.
We will need a new behavioural

534
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,680
strip tool in your classroom
though as well to go along with

535
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:11,720
this.
You don't really have that bit,

536
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,200
yeah.
But jokes aside, we a happy,

537
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,400
healthy teacher who's not
overworked, who's not burnt out,

538
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,280
is gonna have a massive impact
on the kids in their classroom.

539
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,400
So jokes aside, do you know what
You are the most important

540
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,920
resource in a room.
So if you're feeling burnt out,

541
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,000
like you just need a little bit
of help on managing the

542
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,160
expectations, do look at our
back catalogue.

543
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,680
We've got so many episodes
specifically about giving really

544
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,480
actionable, helpful advice all
about that.

545
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,000
And I'm going to just point you
towards it again because it's

546
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,240
one of our most streamed
episodes ever.

547
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,320
And there's good reason for it
because it's really good.

548
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,920
It was our chat with the
teachers health coach, Charlie

549
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,400
Burley.
Fantastic.

550
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:50,560
And I hate him to do some work
with him.

551
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,120
Yeah, we're going to get Charlie
back.

552
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,840
So do stick around because
Charlie's an amazing.

553
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,040
So I won't talk too much about
him, but I will mention in our

554
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,400
in our next episode with him
what I've been doing.

555
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,280
So the first thing essentially
is look after yourself now with

556
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,720
resources and Ed tech and kind
of just, you know, things that

557
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,560
can be implemented in your
classroom often from the top

558
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,360
down to say, well, we're using
this now, we're using this now.

559
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,240
Honestly, in general, it can be
overwhelming.

560
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,880
You spoke about the sheer amount
of companies who'll be at bet

561
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,680
and that just demonstrates, I
think, how many different

562
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,920
companies are out there trying
to do the same thing often or

563
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,960
doing something new or just
helping out educators.

564
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,520
Do you ever feel overwhelmed?
I feel unbelievably, I'm so glad

565
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,720
you mentioned it because I feel
so overwhelmed when I think

566
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,000
because a teacher's plate is
always full, it's always totally

567
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,480
full, right?
You're always just like

568
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,240
thinking, Oh my God, what can I
get rid of so I can fit in this

569
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,000
other initiative that's been
brought in by the school?

570
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,960
When someone sometimes when
people mention to me like, oh,

571
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,480
you should use this resource and
this resource and I'm in the

572
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,840
flow of the day or whatever, I
often think I haven't got the

573
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,640
brain space right now to
actually, I just need to do what

574
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,920
I know because I'm already
fighting fires.

575
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,600
Like, so I find the amount of
resources sometimes

576
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,720
overwhelming.
And therefore it's quite nice to

577
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,920
have refined lists of like,
yeah, but this is good though.

578
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,240
Just use this one.
You know, I find those kind of

579
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,040
that content online really,
really helpful.

580
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,560
Hopefully what we're going to
achieve with this as well.

581
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,800
Do you find that sometimes you
are missing out on?

582
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,640
Really good stuff because of
that feeling.

583
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,440
Oh, almost definitely almost I
am.

584
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,680
I am definitely missing out on
using some quality resources

585
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,880
because I just don't really have
the time to sit there and

586
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,360
research and try like getting
like a free trial that takes a

587
00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:29,160
day.
It's like, OK, well, I've got

588
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,000
there's 10 things has been
recommended to me out of 7000

589
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,320
companies like I don't know, is
this one the best?

590
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,720
And you go online, don't you?
Everyone dies, you go you can

591
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,480
see on Facebook or whatever all
the time our schools figured of

592
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,560
doing this thing.
Has anyone got any

593
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,880
recommendations?
You will never see a post like

594
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,880
that where the top two comments
aren't this is a piece of crap.

595
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,520
Don't use this thing.
It's rubbish.

596
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,840
And the next comment is best
thing we ever got in our school.

597
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,720
We love this resource.
You've got to use it for this.

598
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,400
So I I get overwhelmed by that
as well because I kind of I

599
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,680
think a bit like you sometimes I
just want black and white, like

600
00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,960
here's a list.
This is the best thing you can

601
00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,480
use.
This is the worst thing.

602
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,440
You can use a bit.
Obviously that's.

603
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,120
Not real.
That's.

604
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,760
Not how reality works so.
So yes, I do get very

605
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,080
overwhelmed of it and I'd really
appreciate a podcast episode.

606
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,960
It just kind of gave me like a
few tools that I sort of tried

607
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,880
and tested that that are really
just good I can use straight

608
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,680
away, you know?
Only there were two people out

609
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,520
there doing that.
That's a shame, isn't it?

610
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,440
Yeah.
I find with resources in

611
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,240
general, I, I say keep saying
resources.

612
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,160
You, you probably think of like
actual sheets and stuff.

613
00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:27,240
I'm talking about tools.
Probably better, better use of

614
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,040
the word, isn't it?
Just things at my disposal as a

615
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,960
teacher to make my teaching
better and the children's

616
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,640
progress better and to help me
out.

617
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,640
I, I sometimes really resent the
culture.

618
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,400
Now, I'm not necessarily saying
this happens in our schools.

619
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,200
I don't think it does too much,
but I see it a lot.

620
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,880
In the previous schools I've
worked out where something

621
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,840
becomes the gold standard
overnight and it, I just can see

622
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,280
straight through it.
And it kind of is a bit

623
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,720
embarrassing because there'll be
something in place, right?

624
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,480
Let's say you've got X in place,
whatever it is, and your SLT is

625
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,520
saying, you know, you must do
this, you must do this.

626
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,280
It's for our children.
It's the best thing you possibly

627
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,000
do for them.
If you're not doing this, my

628
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,280
goodness me, I'm going to pick
up on you.

629
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,000
And as a teacher, you can
sometimes like this just isn't

630
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,320
helping me.
This, this, this, whatever.

631
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,160
It's this website or this tool
for logging stuff.

632
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,560
I've just got a different way
that's so much more efficient

633
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,240
than me.
But SLT don't trust me.

634
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,480
And this is the flavour of the
month.

635
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,720
So I've got.
To use this thing to do it this

636
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,000
way.
Then two months down the line,

637
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,120
they might have heard another
school who does something

638
00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:24,320
different, who Ofsted, really
Big Duck, for example.

639
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,720
Oh, that's an amazing way to do
it, very similar to how you

640
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,960
would have always done it.
Or using a thing that you have

641
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,160
to kick down the line because oh
gosh, my school want me to do

642
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,080
this.
Suddenly SLT then decided, Oh

643
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,600
no, no, OK, cool, this thing's
really good.

644
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,320
Then we've got to use this thing
now instead we're going to

645
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,040
implement that and suddenly
that's the gold standard.

646
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,760
And if you're not doing that,
then you're going to be picked

647
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,200
up on.
Well, that's the thing I wanted

648
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,280
to do in.
The Yeah, I know.

649
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,280
And that will change as well.
Do you know what I think that is

650
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,240
the one that comes to mind.
And I reckon it was in your head

651
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,000
then, because I felt like I
could feel it, right?

652
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,640
It's assessment tracking tools.
Assessment tracking tools.

653
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,200
But I can think about my career.
The curriculum hasn't changed in

654
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,840
my career.
It was a new curriculum just

655
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,840
when I started in 20/20/15, I
started.

656
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,240
So it just come out and I can
honestly say I think I've used

657
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,720
seven or eight different,
different tracking tools to

658
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,320
track the same curriculum,
right.

659
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,160
And every single time it's
changed.

660
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,240
It's not because I wanted to,
it's because the score of good.

661
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,280
Oh no, no, now we use this
programme.

662
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,440
What you do in this programme is
you colour in the hexagon and

663
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,200
when the hexagons filled, that
means they've learned.

664
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,280
But if it's orange, it means
you've taught it, but you've got

665
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,040
to teach it again.
And if it's yellow, it means you

666
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,320
haven't taught it yet and they
don't know it.

667
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,640
If it's if it's polka dot pink,
it means it's come up in a test

668
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,640
and they got the mark right but
you haven't taught it yet.

669
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,040
OK, cool.
And if it's blue, they've won

670
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,760
the mountain stage of the Tour
de France, yes.

671
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,200
That's exactly how it works.
That's how it feels, right?

672
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,720
And then you finally get your
head round it.

673
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,000
You're like, OK, well, I kind of
like the old system where I was

674
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,520
just highlighting a bit of
paper, but all right, fair

675
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,080
enough.
And then like two years later

676
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,360
you said that, you know, your
head teacher that does the

677
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,000
classic is the toxic thing of we
haven't changed it in two years.

678
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,600
That means it's bad now.
Oh no, this thing is bad now.

679
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,720
And then they change it to
another system that just does

680
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,440
the same thing and it but it's
slightly different.

681
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,800
Or maybe it's slightly good in
one way but slightly worse in

682
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:58,800
another.
Maybe.

683
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,880
And I guess the overarching
thing I wanted to talk about

684
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,160
here with all of these things
that we're going to mention

685
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,640
today, even not all of them will
work for you.

686
00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:07,840
You won't like all of the things
we're going to say today.

687
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,720
We think they're really useful.
We found them extremely and we'd

688
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,440
say give them a go because of
XYZ.

689
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,480
But also we're not going to sit
here and say, unless you do all

690
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,000
these five things in maths, my
goodness, your maths teaching is

691
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,080
math basically not all resources
match your teaching style.

692
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,440
The constant strive just to
change stuff for the sake of it

693
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,520
is just, it's exhausting.
And I think there's a worry

694
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,200
sometimes and completely
understand it.

695
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,880
And we'll be on the side of SLT
now to be like, let's implement

696
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,560
this because it hits XYZ.
And I know it's annoying, but

697
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,240
I'm going to have the continuity
all the way through.

698
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,360
But sometimes this change for
changes sake and this continuity

699
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:43,880
for continuity's sake.
I agree.

700
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,480
You know, if we just delivered
very quickly, we just delivered

701
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,960
this week APDM on maths,
specifically times tables to our

702
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,520
school where maths leads.
And the biggest, the biggest

703
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,360
kind of message we wanted to get
across to our staff is you are

704
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:01,920
doing an amazing job right now.
If you walked in to walk through

705
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,120
rather all the classrooms when
we're doing our times tables in

706
00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:07,880
the morning, you would see
different things going on and,

707
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,200
and there'd be a lot of leaders,
I think who'd be like, oh,

708
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,480
squeaky bum time.
It's not consistent.

709
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,560
How can I know?
I go into a classroom and

710
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,400
they're doing cards and I go to
the next classroom and they're

711
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,240
doing a dice game going to the
next classroom and they're doing

712
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,840
a worksheet.
So our job to go and say to

713
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,960
staff was you're doing a really
good job.

714
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,360
We're not going to come in and
say it needs to look at this for

715
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:27,240
the 1st 2 minutes, then that for
the next several minutes.

716
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,920
And then this will last 10
minutes and you need to track it

717
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,840
exactly the same way and.
Everyone needs this display so

718
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,520
we can see the timetables
progress.

719
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,680
We're not going to do that.
No.

720
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,360
It might work for some
classrooms.

721
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,800
Some classrooms in our school do
have a display and they keep on

722
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,040
top of it and it's a
leaderboard.

723
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,560
I'm never, ever, especially
after our whole podcast episode

724
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,440
about 23 things teachers
shouldn't do from the DfE

725
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,920
guidance, and one of them was
displays.

726
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,600
I'm never ever then going to go
in front of my colleagues and

727
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,520
say, by the way guys, you need
to do this really intricate

728
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,560
display that tracks timetable.
Also, you're not going to say

729
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,480
and you, if it's the other way
around, you're not going to say

730
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,400
you guys need to take it down.
I think that's the freedom,

731
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,880
isn't it?
But what you're saying, you

732
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,160
know, our whole thing was about
consistency.

733
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,520
I'm going to give one example.
That's the easiest one as a bit

734
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,080
of an analogy, right?
We use songs at our school.

735
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,440
Kids like songs.
It's a really good tool.

736
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,560
Like a lot of kids can learn a
song, they learn the lyrics,

737
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,640
they like the tune and it
actually helps them memorise the

738
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,040
timetables when they wouldn't
have learned it in maybe any

739
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,200
other way.
They're just they just those

740
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,560
children exist, right?
But we noticed that there are

741
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,600
about four or five different
variants of let's say the three

742
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,120
times table song being used
across the school and for us as

743
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,160
leaders and for SRTS point of
view, it's like, yeah, cool

744
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,720
songs are great.
And I don't really care what

745
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,560
what songs anyone uses.
But is there is there some space

746
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,920
here for a bit of consistently
being like consistency in

747
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,080
saying, well, should we just use
the same three times table song

748
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,840
so that the kids when they go up
to the next year group, they can

749
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,360
reinforce their learning?
Because the whole point is

750
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,600
they're learning the tune and
the lyrics.

751
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,880
That's what's helping them.
So if it's a different tune and

752
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,240
lyrics.
They're relearning it's.

753
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,760
They're relearning.
It's kind of not doing the same

754
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,080
thing then.
And people, people still had

755
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,760
counter arguments to that.
For example, they get really

756
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,080
bored when it's the same song
all the time.

757
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,840
Or they just, my class happened
to love this Taylor Swift

758
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,600
knockoff version, whereas this
other class I had, they love

759
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,720
these other ones.
And yeah, and it was a

760
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,040
discussion.
We didn't just sit there and

761
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,000
say, yeah, but it has to be this
now.

762
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,320
And we just kind of came to the
middle ground.

763
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,440
We need some consistency when
you're when your objective is

764
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,520
they're learning the timetables,
we're just going to use this set

765
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,200
of songs.
But if you want to play this

766
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,080
other song because it's fun in
your starter of your lesson,

767
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,080
play it.
It's a laugh.

768
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,480
Who cares?
And someone had left onto it.

769
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,520
And then I got home and listened
to it.

770
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,840
We're never going to say no.
And I think this is the whole

771
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,480
point.
And we had it in a white box and

772
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,120
it was what we wanted people to
take away from that meeting was

773
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,400
we want the individual.
We genuinely want the

774
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,200
individuality of your teaching
profession.

775
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,280
And you know what works for your
children and you know what

776
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,080
works?
Well, 80% of it's going to stay.

777
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,920
But we're going to look for
continuity where we think there

778
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,200
is reason for it, not for the
sake of it.

779
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,080
We're not going to come in and
say this is what timetables

780
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,680
looks like, like we're robots
because a lot of schools do

781
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:47,600
that.
It's really, really

782
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,840
prescriptive.
I don't want to see that at all.

783
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,120
What I want to see is when
there's a reason to be

784
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,000
consistent because of the
outcomes of the children and

785
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,320
it's more of a choice rather
than a teaching pedagogy.

786
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,520
Let's be consistent.
That's fair enough.

787
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,720
Here's another good example of
when continuity is not needed

788
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,720
for the sake of it.
So in the same staff meeting,

789
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,760
when it comes to tracking where
your kids are, it with times

790
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,680
tables, really we just want the
teachers to know where their

791
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,120
kids are so that they will be
putting in the right things for

792
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:15,960
their class.
That's it.

793
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,560
I don't really need to know all
the time.

794
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,200
We can, we can do some summative
of datas tests and things.

795
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,520
We've got multiplication check,
whatever.

796
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,160
So really I don't care how the
teachers track.

797
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,720
We just said we just want you to
track and we can see that loads

798
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,120
of you've got your own little
tracking systems.

799
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,680
You use an Excel sheet, you've
got like a little book that you

800
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,680
write in, you do it on the TTRS
website via this tracking.

801
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,520
OK, cool.
As long as you're all doing it,

802
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,320
it doesn't matter.
We don't need to turn around and

803
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,680
say no, 90% of you are now
scrapping what you're doing and

804
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,240
you're going to do it this way
because we liked that.

805
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,600
We liked that one, even though
it's literally not us doing it

806
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,120
exactly.
It's just that there's the

807
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,880
difference, you know, that
didn't need to be the same.

808
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,280
Whereas the songs we were like
we could see the.

809
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,480
Benefit and I think that is
where there's nuance and that is

810
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,720
where hopefully when you're
listening to this list we're

811
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,880
about to go through, we're going
to explain why we think it's

812
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,240
good.
We might list, I don't know, 15

813
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,800
to 20 things here.
You might go away and use two.

814
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,280
Yeah.
You might go away and try 4.

815
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,040
You might even just do not.
You might need to do any of it.

816
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:10,880
You might think I already do
that.

817
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,520
But the point here is we're
going to show you some really

818
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,040
cool stuff that has helped us
with our teaching, actively

819
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,960
helped us.
And maybe it's something you can

820
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,480
go away and try.
Maybe it's something you can

821
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,120
talk to your subject leads
about.

822
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,600
Maybe it's something that it
might really work in your

823
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,360
school.
Let's see, shall we?

824
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:25,640
Yeah.
Yeah.

825
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,400
So should we get going?
Yeah.

826
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,800
Do you want to dive in with with
your opener?

827
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,640
Your start?
This, this, I said to Hayden.

828
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,960
I've got one that I want to
start with and it's from when I

829
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,080
was a young teacher.
I was two or three years in I

830
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,720
think, and it was the start of a
new year and the deputy head

831
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,560
came round to everyone and he'd
bought everyone a book.

832
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,960
And I thought, OK, interesting,
what was this?

833
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,680
But I hope it's not a book.
I have to read them a weekend.

834
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,320
But the book was, it was really
helpful and I've still got this

835
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,080
book.
So this is 8-9 years down the

836
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,320
line now.
I've still got it in my

837
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,160
cupboard.
It's very simple.

838
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,280
The national curriculum.
Oh, fair enough.

839
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,040
So it sounds, it sounds so basic
and I'm teaching a lot of people

840
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,440
to suck eggs now, but do you
know what I needed to be taught

841
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,920
to suck eggs at some point, even
though I felt like I was 2-3

842
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,120
years in, I don't know what I'm
doing.

843
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,960
Do you know what the point was?
Make sure everything you're

844
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,320
doing is crowned in the national
curriculum.

845
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,040
And that's a really useful
resource to have have have as a

846
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,280
teacher when you're teaching
geography or history or science

847
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,800
and you're using a scheme.
Just because you're using a

848
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,720
scheme doesn't mean it's always
hitting the national curriculum.

849
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,440
We've seen schemes and youth
schemes before that go way above

850
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,160
and beyond what actually needs
to happen.

851
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,640
I mean, most of them, if you
think, you know, we've said it

852
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,280
before, you look at the national
curriculum for something like

853
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,800
geography in history, whether
they're really short.

854
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,080
I've definitely saved myself
some stress before in the last

855
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,720
two years.
I can, I can tell you, I've done

856
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,560
this by going to the national
curriculum because I've been

857
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,560
worried about the amount of
stuff I've got to get in from

858
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,400
this science unit, let's say,
thinking cracking, you know,

859
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,920
this scheme is we've got to
deliver a lot here.

860
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,480
And I've gone to the national
curriculum and realised,

861
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,920
honestly, half of it wasn't on
it.

862
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,400
It was all enrichment stuff.
And I was like, that's great.

863
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,080
But I can calm down a bit now.
And you know what, if anyone

864
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,280
challenges me, why didn't you
deliver?

865
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,120
You didn't, you didn't do lesson
5 of this thing.

866
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,400
Do you know what?
It wasn't on the national

867
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,800
curriculum.
If you want to have an argument

868
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,040
about it, let's talk about it.
But I needed to save some time.

869
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,000
This was getting stressful.
I felt better about it.

870
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,960
So you're right, having that
tool is useful.

871
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,719
And I just have it saved as
bookmarks on my on my Google

872
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:14,520
Chrome.
Yeah, do that.

873
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,440
Do that.
Whatever works for you.

874
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,639
Like I said, not one way to do
everything.

875
00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:19,080
I've got the paper.
I like flicking through the

876
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,480
paper version.
I'm just old schooler.

877
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:21,400
You're old.
Yeah, I am.

878
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,639
I'm a boomer.
So let's dive into some subject

879
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:26,159
specific ones then.
And obviously we start with

880
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:27,880
maths because maths is our
little baby.

881
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:30,840
Number one thing I think all
schools should be at least

882
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,239
looking at personally, because I
think it's really useful as a

883
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,920
starting point if you don't
really have anything, is the

884
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,600
White Rose MTPS.
They are free.

885
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,480
The medium term plans, they
break objectives up into small

886
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,480
steps.
They use the curriculum so you

887
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,120
know it's from the curriculum in
the 1st place.

888
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,800
They give you sentence stems,
they give you questions as an

889
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,679
examples that can be used from
the start.

890
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,960
I'm going from this.
That's good enough.

891
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,840
You don't need to copy it over
and put your school logo on it.

892
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,520
Just to say that you put your
school logo on it, use that as

893
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,480
you're planning.
It is really good stuff.

894
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,240
And I go even further and say if
your school's in a position to

895
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,920
and you're going all in with
White Rose, I think it's very

896
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,960
much worth the premium resources
as well.

897
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,680
You get worksheets, you get
questions.

898
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:13,320
These are mathematician,
mathematical, mathematic

899
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,480
specialists.
We really don't edit this

900
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,520
podcast, guys.
We weren't.

901
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,240
They're specialists.
They're really good questions.

902
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,720
The fluencies there.
And then as a teacher, you can

903
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,960
take it and you can cull things
you don't need and you can apply

904
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,920
a professional knowledge to it.
But I would say that's cut my

905
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,800
mass planning time by more than
half being able to use that

906
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,960
scheme.
Do you know what White Rose to

907
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,360
me is hands down the best
mathematics scheme.

908
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,400
I just think there's a lot of
people out there.

909
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,400
You'll see me online having
arguments with people on like a

910
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,360
math specialist group would be
like, and no, actually white is

911
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,480
better than all these because
they'll say, oh, I hate why Rose

912
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,760
is rubbish.
She doesn't do this, this, this.

913
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,320
I really do think, and I want to
want to mention this actually

914
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,240
earlier, that sometimes with
resources, I think what can

915
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:56,080
happen is people don't use them
properly and SLT mainly right.

916
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,640
Well, not you not implement a
resource properly and then a

917
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,680
year later be like, no, it's
rubbish.

918
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,000
Wasn't doing the job.
That's another like bug bear I

919
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
have with resources in general.
And I do find that with White

920
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,280
Rose, you actually you just
gotta gotta get it.

921
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,560
You've got to get into the nitty
gritty of it and it's not a you

922
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,720
can't just pick it up and use it
with 100% success in any setting

923
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,960
ever.
You will need to adjust the pace

924
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,680
and the pitch of your lessons,
but you can use White Rose.

925
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:19,880
The starting point is the best
bit.

926
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,400
Like you said, you can use it
small steps if you really,

927
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,040
really don't want to.
You don't get in trouble if I

928
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,200
use their worksheets, OK, or at
least use their like progression

929
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,800
of lessons because it's spot on.
You know what I mean?

930
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,080
So it's a good place to start
another one for me.

931
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,560
Big one.
Everyone's heard of this

932
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,920
timetables, Rockstarz.
It's so good.

933
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,640
Me didn't have a conversation
the other day about this, about

934
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,720
how it's simple, it's so simple
and therefore maybe gets

935
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:47,600
tarnished with it's, you know,
it's not complex enough.

936
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,680
We need something that does
more.

937
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,520
TTRS is simple and unbelievably
effective.

938
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,440
And actually hidden away, which
is the beauty of it is complete,

939
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,080
is unbelievably complex.
It's got that.

940
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,680
It's got so much, the stats bolt
on, it's unbelievable.

941
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,000
You can go in and see how long
it takes your child, each

942
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,720
individual child to answer each
individual times table.

943
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,560
It's got a heat map.
You can set tables if you want

944
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,360
to, if you're explicitly
learning, or you can let the

945
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,800
algorithm run its course and
just give the children exactly

946
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,360
what they need.
It is the most unbelievable

947
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,640
times table resource.
And I think more than anything,

948
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,200
the reason it gets kind of
brushed aside as normal is

949
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,920
because so many schools are
using it now.

950
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,440
It's so normal for a school to
have time a Rockstar.

951
00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:28,560
The impact it can have if the
child, if the children use it

952
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,200
properly and consistently and
every week and get on it is

953
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,600
insane.
Our kids in year 4 are making

954
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,760
amazing progress because this
year we're making more use of

955
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,000
times to have a Rockstar.
I mean, it's easy to get and

956
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,720
just be like cool, just set
garage, which is just practising

957
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:45,440
your times tables 10 minutes a
week and hope that makes a

958
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,280
difference.
There's so much more to it.

959
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,280
There are worksheets in there.
Specific times tables help.

960
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,480
It's broken down into division,
missing numbers, times, table

961
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,200
facts.
It's just so good and I would

962
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,800
recommend immediately If your
school does not have TTRS, get

963
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,400
it immediately.
That's.

964
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,360
Probably one of the few
resources where I really can't

965
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:04,920
imagine a school not being able
to use that.

966
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,880
Yeah, like most resources, we
said, oh, you know, it might not

967
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,160
work for you.
That's one of the probably the

968
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,480
only one here on this whole
list.

969
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,760
So I'd say it definitely will
work.

970
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,880
It will definitely work in any
school because it because it's

971
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,000
so varied, it's so good.
Yeah, Hit the button is a free

972
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,880
version basically.
Where do you know?

973
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,360
What I see a lot of the time
with the children is real high

974
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:24,560
engagement level.
So hit the button.

975
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,600
If you literally Google hit the
button, it's the top marks

976
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,280
website.
It's just a game where it pops

977
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,480
up times table questions and the
kids have to hit the answer and

978
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,600
it becomes competitive.
It's completely free and built

979
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,880
in to hit the button, which
again, I think is sometimes

980
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,000
under utilised.
Do you know when you don't

981
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,880
really get time?
You've got like a year 3-4

982
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,360
class, right?
And you suddenly realise that

983
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,760
your kids can't 88 and you
suddenly realise your kids can't

984
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,520
do number bonds to 10 or 20 or
100.

985
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,600
And it's really weird because
you're sat there, these kids are

986
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,680
doing 4 digit addition or short
multiplication or you know, year

987
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,880
4 level stuff.
But they're just missing that

988
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,920
those basic like adding three
numbers together, 7 + 5 + 8.

989
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,040
And they just don't know how to
go about it in an efficient way.

990
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,840
Hit the Button has these games
where they just practise that

991
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:08,720
and I think it's an amazing
tool.

992
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,000
Yeah, it is incredible.
I like the number one stuff.

993
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,600
I found that when I've had to
differentiate in my class, so

994
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,240
when I've had a quite a wide
variety of ability in my class

995
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,200
and I want to do some timetable
practise, it's so immediately

996
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,160
good for, well you do that one,
you're doing mixed twelves with

997
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,440
division.
You're doing, you're practising

998
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,160
at your threes because you're
still on your threes.

999
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,080
But actually do you know what
you need to practise halving

1000
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:30,800
like you said, and they've got a
whole halving game, like you

1001
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,080
said, doubling, halving number
bonds hit the button.

1002
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,960
Yeah, very underutilised.
But you do need the tech as well

1003
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,000
as go of it.
So I do find if you've got iPads

1004
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,320
or something like that, it's
fantastic.

1005
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,920
But even on the board sometimes,
if I've got 2 minutes spare,

1006
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,200
like if I ask the kids what you
want to do, Hands up.

1007
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,440
Can we can we hit the button?
Competition.

1008
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:47,960
Do you know what?
Yeah.

1009
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,400
OK, we've got 2 minutes.
We're going to assembly a

1010
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:50,440
second.
Let's come on.

1011
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,120
Right, U5, let's have a
competition ready.

1012
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,960
Who's gonna be quickest?
And then if you want to get

1013
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,880
everyone involved, everyone else
is writing on the whiteboard,

1014
00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:58,040
writing our answers down as well
whilst the kid plays at the

1015
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,120
front.
Hit the button is up.

1016
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,200
That's a good one with the most
engaging game that the kids

1017
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,280
really want to do all the time.
Yeah, it's so simple, but so

1018
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,240
effective.
I've got another tool, I think

1019
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:07,200
it's more specific to year 6.
I'd like to hear your opinion on

1020
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,000
this because I've been in year 6
for ages now.

1021
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,480
But test base.
Oh no, test base is amazing.

1022
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,760
So again, test space, something
I've always used, but I've used

1023
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,280
it way more in your.
So what is it?

1024
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,120
Test base is basically just a
culmination of of what?

1025
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,120
For year six at least, it's all
of the old old SATS questions

1026
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,720
and it goes back honestly like
20.

1027
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,280
Years.
Well, you think about SATS, it's

1028
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,960
from every year group.
Yeah, it's a TH 2.

1029
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,120
Yeah, so I guess it, yeah, it's
useful, right.

1030
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,200
In other year groups, but
particularly in year 6, I find

1031
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,480
it just sometimes it just allows
me to to centre my brain again

1032
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,600
as to what is the actual
standard of questioning that

1033
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,320
these kids.
Because in year 6, you do get

1034
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,800
caught into the trap of it feels
like you're teaching to a test.

1035
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,040
Yeah, of course it does.
So sometimes with my, if I

1036
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:46,800
generate a worksheet or
something, I'll just Chuck in a

1037
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,880
couple of questions from test
space and be like, right, there

1038
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:49,840
you go.
You've learned this thing.

1039
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,760
I've given you questions.
Here's some White Rose stuff,

1040
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,720
but here's some actual questions
in the South and how exactly how

1041
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,600
it's going to be worded to you.
Have a go.

1042
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,320
So test space is unreal because
it's so quick to philtre.

1043
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,200
It takes me 5 seconds to find
what I mean.

1044
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,800
You can click year group, you
can click level of difficulty,

1045
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,240
you can click year that it came
up.

1046
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,880
The topic itself, obviously you
can, you can change it and it

1047
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,000
doesn't not just for mouse as
well.

1048
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
You can do it for for GPS, you
can do it for reading.

1049
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,880
It's got really good stuff and
there's I've heard it's got

1050
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,600
other newer features I've not
even checked out.

1051
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,600
I need to check out after this.
Apparently it's got even more

1052
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,960
new stuff recently added to it
which I've got to go and find

1053
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,040
out.
Maybe you guys can help me.

1054
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,240
And I would say from my point of
view, lower down the score all

1055
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:28,240
the way through having having
having that in, in the whole

1056
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:30,640
bank where, you know, you can go
and see a test star question

1057
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,520
that is just powerful all the
way through.

1058
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,280
So you can, you can go and click
here for I've said to my class,

1059
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,480
but you can imagine that bigger
guys, this is from a year six.

1060
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,840
Yeah, they love it because
because to them it's a year six

1061
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,040
thing.
It's a age two thing.

1062
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,120
But then, but then I'm like,
cool, I can see what the

1063
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,720
reasoning might look like.
I can see what the end goal is.

1064
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000
And you know, what I find it
incredibly useful for is

1065
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,040
generating so many arithmetic
tests and papers and stuff.

1066
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,520
So when you're doing arithmetic,
it's easy again.

1067
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,640
And, and this is no right or
wrong thing, but you might give

1068
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,920
questions to your class that you
think are really useful and they

1069
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,760
are and they help your class.
But again, they're nothing like

1070
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,120
what might come up in the way we
assess the children.

1071
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,880
So it helps you ground yourself
in that of, well, this is what

1072
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,400
it will look like.
Do you know what my kids are

1073
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,720
going to get?
And it sounds silly, 0 * 412

1074
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:19,560
right?
And that's such an easy

1075
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:20,680
question.
That was just a bit of

1076
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,080
familiarisation.
The kids will learn it's in the

1077
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,040
white row, small steps, but they
might not see it in the context

1078
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,000
of a of arithmetic test and just
exposing them to that.

1079
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,680
It will take 5 minutes and then
I'll be able to.

1080
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:31,640
Answer it.
Do you know how I could?

1081
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,720
The funny proof is here that you
definitely use test base.

1082
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,520
Is it 0 * 412 is absolutely one
of the exact exact question

1083
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,240
'cause I use it all the time.
With year six, that exact

1084
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:43,240
question has come up and. 6
still don't get it guys.

1085
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,960
I've done this 47 days in the.
World it's been No we do the

1086
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,720
whole I don't sit there doing 0
times come on mate, I'm beyond

1087
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:49,640
that.
I'm not year 4.

1088
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,320
What do you think I am?
Yeah, it is so good.

1089
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,840
When we did an activity with our
staff once, didn't we, where we

1090
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,280
actually said just pick a type
of question.

1091
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,000
It literally could be two
numbers added together.

1092
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,160
It could be two numbers
multiplied together or whatever.

1093
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:04,360
Something from arithmetic.
Go on test space, search by that

1094
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,080
topic.
And I want you to copy and

1095
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:08,760
paste, like do a snipping tool
snip into.

1096
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,440
So just addition for example.
Yeah, just a Word document how

1097
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,160
many different ways it presents
an addition question.

1098
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,000
And we found like with some
types of questions that there

1099
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,040
were like 7 or 8 different ways
it presented it.

1100
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:21,520
And it just opened our minds to
be like, so when we do an

1101
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,240
arithmetic test, maybe sometimes
we put the answer box on the

1102
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:26,120
left, maybe sometimes we put it
in the middle.

1103
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,040
So they have to use inverse or
not, you know?

1104
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,320
Yeah.
It just prompts your memory for

1105
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,200
that one more in terms of maths
analysis.

1106
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,000
All the time.
And I spoiled it earlier, didn't

1107
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,480
I?
You really spoiled it.

1108
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,080
You really did yours.
You just can't keep it in.

1109
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:39,800
But I want to talk about
learning by questions.

1110
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,200
To me, learning by questions is
an unbelievable tool.

1111
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:49,760
It's an unbelievable way of
teaching maths that is really

1112
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,400
individualised and gives
feedback to your children all at

1113
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,600
once in a way that is just
simply impossible.

1114
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,240
As a teacher you cannot be in
front of every child really

1115
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:01,960
narrowing down exactly what
they're getting wrong all the

1116
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,080
time.
It's impossible.

1117
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,760
There's always some children
waiting over there for your

1118
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,520
hands out.
They've not exchanged properly.

1119
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:07,720
Oh gosh, OK, I'll come to you in
a second.

1120
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:10,160
Because these these children
haven't laid out their numbers

1121
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,520
correctly and that's a
completely different

1122
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,360
misconception.
There's seven different ways how

1123
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,400
you can get the same thing wrong
and your job as a teacher is to

1124
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,040
firefight that and get around
the room and help as much much

1125
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,360
as possible.
LBQ is a tool where you can set

1126
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,040
a lesson for children and it's
linked up with White Rose.

1127
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,280
So back to White Rose, this
whole kind of like universal

1128
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,760
building of things that overlap
and you can set a small step.

1129
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,600
So it might be dividing by 100
something I did in my year fours

1130
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,000
recently and it's got a bunch of
fluency questions, It's got a

1131
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,080
bunch of reasoning questions,
problem solving questions.

1132
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,840
And they get progressively
harder as they go through.

1133
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,080
And the children independently
sit there and answer the

1134
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,200
questions and they go green if
they get it right.

1135
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,960
If they get it wrong, goes red,
doesn't move on, gives them some

1136
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,160
feedback.
Ask them to try this, like gives

1137
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,160
the children a chance to fix
their answer.

1138
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,160
If the children fix their answer
and they get it right, it goes

1139
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,360
gold, right?
So really it's amber, but we say

1140
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,480
it goes gold because it's
exciting.

1141
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,600
You've got a gold medal.
So they get a chance to fix it.

1142
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,720
And then if your children are
still getting it wrong again and

1143
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:12,840
again, it stays red.
But the red BLOB gets bigger for

1144
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,760
you on your screen and you can
see you got it wrong twice, 3 *

1145
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,320
4 times an right.
And on your screen you've got a

1146
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,680
big Excel sheet, all the
children's names.

1147
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,040
You can put this on a board if
you want.

1148
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,840
Sometimes that's a real nice
carrot to see how many greens

1149
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,800
you can get across.
Or you can keep it to yourself

1150
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,320
and you can say oh gosh, people
4 has got question 5 wrong 6

1151
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:30,200
Times Now.
That's it.

1152
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:31,880
Oh gosh, that's I'm going to go
straight to them.

1153
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,040
The other ones are getting them
wrong, but they seem to be

1154
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,360
turning orange.
They're getting the feedback

1155
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:36,560
themselves.
I can leave them for a minute.

1156
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,360
It helps you prioritise, it
helps you go there and what it

1157
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,040
does is a teacher.
It doesn't replace you.

1158
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,240
I think that's a really big fear
people have, especially of AI.

1159
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,280
There's no AI involved in
learning my questions.

1160
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,480
It's just feedback to the
children and that information

1161
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,840
more importantly given to me as
the teacher.

1162
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,280
I can then go, OK, cool.
At the end I've got all this.

1163
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,440
I'm doing life help as I go
around.

1164
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,360
But at the end, I can see there
are four kids here who are

1165
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,320
consistently getting this wrong.
Cool.

1166
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:04,680
I'm gonna grab them for an
intervention group.

1167
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:05,960
Yeah, I'm gonna get the
whiteboards out.

1168
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,120
I'm gonna teach them, teach them
what to do.

1169
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,600
We're gonna try again next.
Week that to me is by far

1170
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,040
there's a lot of gimmicky tools
out there for mouse and I think

1171
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,320
learn by questions the way it
gives you that assessment for

1172
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,320
learning it's just so much more
clear and quick to your mind

1173
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,760
quick to your vision isn't it
like with the circles and the

1174
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,160
spreadsheet I think that's what
sets it just a bit above other

1175
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,560
tools that might claim to be
doing similar similar things so

1176
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,080
yeah, my question and there.
Are incredible, thousands of

1177
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,880
questions on there that you can
really, really narrow it down to

1178
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,480
exactly what you want and
there's a huge scope and I think

1179
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,320
the link with White Rose, I
think with the curriculum, it's

1180
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:38,080
all there.
It's good.

1181
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,760
It's not just maths.
Like I said, they've got loads

1182
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,000
of curriculum stuff on there.
I would very much say to someone

1183
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,720
who's interested in that and by
the way, this is in no way an

1184
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:48,560
ad.
We're not remotely being like

1185
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,160
paid anything by LBQ.
We use it a lot, we love it and

1186
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,880
we've been talking to people
involved with LBQ.

1187
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:56,880
That's why we're going to their
standard bet.

1188
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,520
It's going to be really cool.
Yeah, we'll be doing some

1189
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,760
content and.
Podcast stuff there.

1190
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,280
Look forward to that one that'll
be coming out soon.

1191
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:03,960
OK, let's move on to English
then.

1192
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,600
When we talked about maths,
let's whiz through some English

1193
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,160
tools and there's some more
general ones after.

1194
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:12,560
So English for me, a huge hook
for the children is video.

1195
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,520
Yes.
And I think literally shed have

1196
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,480
some unbelievable videos.
You're listening to this.

1197
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,400
You probably, you probably know
the ones that you go to straight

1198
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,200
away.
I think the lighthouse's one is

1199
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,720
yeah, yeah, there's Alma and
one.

1200
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:24,760
There's one marshmallow that
we're using here for where

1201
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,400
there's monsters from.
It's just it's been there

1202
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:27,760
forever.
I think that's one of the first

1203
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,560
tools I got into when I started
teaching it was, was Literacy

1204
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:31,960
shared videos.
They're just brilliant.

1205
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,480
They're such a good hook and
they're quite short usually,

1206
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:35,440
obviously.
And they're all like, they've

1207
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,000
obviously done the licencing
stuff for you.

1208
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:37,880
Don't have to worry about all
that.

1209
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,360
If it's on there, you can use
it, you know what I mean?

1210
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,080
But yeah, very good.
And it's free to you.

1211
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,280
You just go on the website, you
just literally watch the video.

1212
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,800
And quite often, I mean, even if
you don't get it through

1213
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,680
Literacy Shared, right, there's
so much planning out there

1214
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,120
because because so many people
use it.

1215
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:52,840
You can very normally just
Google this video planning.

1216
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,880
Alma, alma, alma like attention.
Wanker Yeah, that's what I

1217
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,280
really got.
It's kind of horrory, really

1218
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:57,960
common.
Honestly.

1219
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,120
There's so much stuff out there
for free based on those videos,

1220
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,080
so it will give you a starting
point as well if you're not even

1221
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,080
sure where to go.
Unbelievable hook really good.

1222
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,800
Take a look.
This is, I'm going to talk about

1223
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,360
this one quickly because I used
it in the last couple of years

1224
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,600
so much and it's one of those
times where you can just sit

1225
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,920
there and realise, Oh my gosh, I
am in the 21st century.

1226
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,640
This is insane.
Google Translate, It seems so

1227
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,600
simple, but when you have an AAL
child, someone who joins your

1228
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,720
class and doesn't really speak
English, for a few years in my

1229
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:27,120
career, I didn't even really
think to use a translate tool

1230
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,280
and it sounds awful.
I just thought, OK, we'll get

1231
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,520
some picture cards in, we'll do
some Turkish to English, Hello,

1232
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,440
toilet exit, all that kind of
good stuff, all the twinkle nice

1233
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:36,480
stuff.
That's really cool.

1234
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:37,520
Don't be wrong, there's a place
for it.

1235
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,760
A child joined my class.
A Turkish child didn't speak any

1236
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,720
English.
We were sat having a

1237
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:45,840
conversation about football
through Google translation.

1238
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,440
That's so nice.
And, and he looked so happy.

1239
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,640
And then, and then he we'd be
talking about football and he'd

1240
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,880
look up and he'd go messy,
messy.

1241
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,640
You can form a bond with kids
because language, because of

1242
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,960
this unbelievable technology
isn't a barrier anymore.

1243
00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:03,320
And it was just that moment
where I just thought, OK, like,

1244
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,760
this is so easy to take for
granted, but this is

1245
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,720
unbelievable.
It sounds so simple, but you

1246
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,800
didn't think of it for exactly
that, so it's worth mentioning

1247
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,840
in case someone else is thinking
Oh yeah I know this exists.

1248
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,520
I know everyone knows Google
Translate is a thing, but maybe

1249
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,560
you haven't thought of using it
right in the class.

1250
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,400
Well at what point did did he
finish the conversation?

1251
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:20,680
Was it when he found out who you
support?

1252
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:25,280
Yeah, well, funnily enough, he
supported Galatasaray, which is

1253
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,880
a Turkish team.
You won't know because you don't

1254
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,040
choose football, but Man United
were playing Galatasaray like

1255
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,640
that year that we were together.
So I was saying to that we're

1256
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,240
gonna beat you and it's like no,
gala, gala, gala, gala.

1257
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:36,960
And then we beat them.
So I was like.

1258
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:39,880
Took away the iPad.
You can't you Google Translate

1259
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:41,120
anymore?
That was the bet, wasn't it?

1260
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,400
Horrible.
But it's really nice because

1261
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,080
like, I suddenly had a bond with
a child where the language

1262
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,560
barrier would have prevented
that from happening.

1263
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:49,520
Yeah, I suppose.
Really nice.

1264
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,840
Another one, I mean, I talked a
little bit about this last week,

1265
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,000
so I won't talk about that
aspect of it, but ChatGPT and if

1266
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:56,880
there's any other things that
that are similar out there yet

1267
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,280
them as.
Well, why specifically English

1268
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,440
would you say it's good?
For ChatGPT, I mean, last week I

1269
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,720
talked about Waggles, right?
Incredibly good for Waggles.

1270
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:05,800
Another massive thing I like
doing with ChatGPT for English

1271
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,040
is making word banks, right?
That is an insanely good tool,

1272
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:11,160
right?
And whether it's you saying

1273
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,640
create a word bank for this
thing, you give it a prompt or

1274
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,040
you can copy in a piece of text
and say, make a word bank out of

1275
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,280
this.
Or you can say, here's an

1276
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,480
example of the text that I want
to use make a word Bank of this

1277
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,960
and some synonyms and some extra
stuff they can use to expand on

1278
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,240
this.
You can just basically get it to

1279
00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:28,280
do absolutely anything you want.
And there's another really good

1280
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,560
tool, but another really good
way you can use it, sorry, which

1281
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,000
is to summarise stuff and also
define things.

1282
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,360
So sometimes I put it in and I'm
like, I kind of know what I want

1283
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,640
to say to the kids, but I feel
like I'm being too complex right

1284
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,320
now.
I need to simplify this.

1285
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,920
I need to pull out like 2
learning points from it and I

1286
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,080
can't get my thoughts straight.
I'll put it into, I'll put it

1287
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,120
into ChatGPT.
Help me summarise this.

1288
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,320
I've even before put it in and
said give me some success

1289
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,840
criteria for this lesson because
I can't think of how to, how to

1290
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,520
like condense this nicely.
And even if it doesn't give you

1291
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:01,360
the exact answer 100% of the
time, it has at least prompted

1292
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,400
me to to get what I want.
I mean, at least made me think,

1293
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,440
Oh yeah, that's where I need to
think about.

1294
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:06,600
Those stepping stones are there,
Yeah, it's.

1295
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,400
Just so good.
It's just so good for that sort.

1296
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,760
Of stuff, I think the the power
of AI is knowing what it's good

1297
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,960
at and then using it as much as.
Possible.

1298
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,440
Do you find the kids ever say to
you in English what's another

1299
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,200
word for when they say
something?

1300
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:20,840
And sometimes I can just give
them one.

1301
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,800
Other times I'm like, I am
stumped.

1302
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,880
And I just use chat with GT and
you can use Google as well, but

1303
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,840
I just will just say give us the
synonyms for this in the context

1304
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,120
of this.
Sometimes that's really useful

1305
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:32,960
because it will just actually
give you ones that are useful,

1306
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,600
rather than just any every
synonym ever.

1307
00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:36,480
Yeah.
And I think that's where it's

1308
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,440
hard for some people to step
back as a teacher because

1309
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,240
they're worried, oh, AI is going
to take over.

1310
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,600
Now, do you know what AI is
better than you at pulling out

1311
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,000
words really quickly?
Like, even if you have an answer

1312
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:45,920
for that child, right?
Yeah.

1313
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,480
What would be better having
seven that the child can use and

1314
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,680
then discuss and think, well, is
that why is that more suitable?

1315
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,680
What's a better learning
opportunity than you just going

1316
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,400
big?
Colossal.

1317
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,000
Yeah, colossal is a lovely word
for big.

1318
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,800
And it could work in a lot of
context, but it might not work

1319
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,720
in that context.
And ChatGPT would have seven

1320
00:52:00,720 --> 00:52:01,880
others.
And you can then discuss with

1321
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:03,120
the I'm.
Expose myself a bit here as

1322
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:04,520
well.
And just because you might

1323
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,120
think, come on Hayden, you
should be able to do that.

1324
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:07,200
But you know what?
I don't care.

1325
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:08,600
In that moment, I just.
I was.

1326
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:09,960
Here we go after the behaviour
thing.

1327
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,800
Yeah, I need something on you.
Yeah, yeah, I struggle with

1328
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,760
behaviour Hayden struggles with.
Reading comprehension, kind of

1329
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:15,920
it's related to reading
comprehension.

1330
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,640
So there we were doing some
questions on like looking at

1331
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,920
authorial choices, and it was
explaining why authors do things

1332
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,480
right.
And there was a chapter in The

1333
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,000
Boy in the Tower, which we're
reading at the moment.

1334
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,680
Incredible book, by the way.
And the chapter is like one page

1335
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,200
long.
And the question that that was

1336
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:31,560
planned.
So we share planning.

1337
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,040
So the other teacher who planned
this was, you know, the question

1338
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,240
was a big question like 3 marks.
Why explain why the author's

1339
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:38,960
chosen to do this in one
chapter?

1340
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,240
And only one thing came to my
mind, which was dramatic effect

1341
00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:43,480
as a dramatic effect.
And I couldn't really like, I

1342
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,160
just couldn't formulate the
answer to this question.

1343
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,320
I knew there were more things
and I just couldn't put it into

1344
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,080
words.
And I literally went into AI and

1345
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,720
I was thinking, I wonder if
it's, I wonder if it knows this

1346
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:55,560
book.
And I said, why would the author

1347
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,160
have written this chapter in,
in, in one page?

1348
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,560
And it just gave me the most
unbelievably good answer ever.

1349
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:02,520
And it just had, it was there in
the back of my mind then.

1350
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,200
So when I had the conversation
with the kids, I could draw out

1351
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,160
with my question.
I could draw out that level of

1352
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,000
answer from them.
Yeah, it just helped me.

1353
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,520
It supported me thinking.
And dropping your pride meant

1354
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:12,400
you had a better discussion
with.

1355
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:13,480
You.
I was waiting.

1356
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,400
I can see your brain thinking,
thinking.

1357
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:16,960
He's gonna.
He's gonna roast me for some.

1358
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,680
Reason Admitting you're
absolutely terrible at your job

1359
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,360
helps you actually be better at
your.

1360
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,080
Job.
I'm surprised.

1361
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:22,240
I'm surprised.
I'm not listening to you.

1362
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:23,680
I don't care about you.
You can't control me.

1363
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,920
Very quick one for me.
Make your own Wordle.

1364
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:28,520
Just Google it.
It's a really cool game.

1365
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,160
The children love doing it and
you can put in what you've been

1366
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,040
doing for your spelling rules so
it's not just random.

1367
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,640
Wordle's very random.
I tried playing Wordle before in

1368
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,440
my class and it was a word
they'd never heard of.

1369
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,560
It was quite like, it wasn't an
inappropriate word, but it was

1370
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,160
just such a high level word they
would never have got it.

1371
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,320
There was no kind of like
spelling like thread in there.

1372
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,080
Whereas if you make your own
Wordle, you've been doing Ed

1373
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,480
words.
For example, put Ed in there and

1374
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,480
you say to the kids, if they
know it's like recent, they'll

1375
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,320
be like, let's try E because
we've been doing Ed.

1376
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:56,520
Yeah, yes, there is.
Cool.

1377
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:58,840
OK, what about T?
Because I know T can go there.

1378
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,320
Or how about a different vowel?
Because I know the vowel goes

1379
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:05,040
before a consonant.
It might say, but you know, hate

1380
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,360
it or something like that.
Let's try a.

1381
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,400
Let's try I you're kind of
building up that idea of well is

1382
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:11,840
very common.
Vows come up a lot.

1383
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,200
All these spending things that
we take for granted as adults,

1384
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,200
you can implement that.
It's a really good point,

1385
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:17,120
actually.
Not really.

1386
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:18,400
Some of those things aren't
really rules.

1387
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,520
It's just like pattern
recognition things like if we as

1388
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,440
an adult, if I see, if I see a Y
come up in orange, right, I've

1389
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,880
used it somewhere else, I'll be
thinking, well, that's probably

1390
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,120
at the end, right?
And if not, it's probably in the

1391
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,000
second position.
Yeah, just 'cause I know how

1392
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,040
words were.
And I think that's, that's, I've

1393
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,600
never really thought about the
power of that with kids.

1394
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:33,800
It's not even just a spelling
words.

1395
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,120
It's just now this.
Our letters generally are used

1396
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:37,320
in the English language
together.

1397
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:38,920
What's a sensible guest, you
know?

1398
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:40,320
Yeah.
You can have the conversation

1399
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:41,800
with a kid.
While you should not get Z at

1400
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:42,520
the start.
Yeah.

1401
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,280
Yeah, it's for a number of
reasons.

1402
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,040
And if you've got AQ in there
for whatever reason you need to

1403
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:47,840
guess you are.
Yeah.

1404
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:49,120
Like so there's little tiny
things.

1405
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:51,920
They're really useful.
You very quickly.

1406
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,520
I just wanted to mention
something you've gone on about a

1407
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,080
lot.
It's it's I've always found this

1408
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,920
hard to use.
It's the Alan Pete.

1409
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,680
Yeah, so, so Alan Pete, it
sounds like they're like Alan

1410
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,400
Pete is a person and and it's
his, his resource.

1411
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:04,360
It's really old resource
actually.

1412
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,160
I've had it for a long time.
I don't know when he made them,

1413
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,440
but here Alan Pete, literacy
expert, go online, just Google

1414
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,640
him like he's he's big in the
literacy world, education world.

1415
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,120
He's quite incredible actually.
He's got some amazing resources

1416
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,640
and training and things out
there for writing and he's, he

1417
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,960
made this resource and it's, I
think it's called 25 sentence

1418
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,480
structures or 25 sentence types.
And when I first found it, it

1419
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,760
was a time when I was generally
I find English hard anyway, but

1420
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:31,120
I was I was struggling with how
to like get some variety in my

1421
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,000
kids writing because everything.
It feels so grammar and

1422
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,120
punctuation formulaic,
dependent.

1423
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,200
This is why I.
Struggled with it.

1424
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,960
I'd love you to kind of answer
back why it's not a struggle or

1425
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,360
why we should use it.
Because I found as a teacher, I

1426
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,640
had to get in there front dead
furbles and then inverted

1427
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:47,880
commas.
And then this is the thing so I

1428
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,120
can take off the assessment
sheet.

1429
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,960
And I always feel like that
creativity has been almost

1430
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,640
killed.
So why are these so good then?

1431
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,960
OK, because if you use them
properly, most of them do

1432
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,280
actually have embedded one of
those skills anyway.

1433
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,600
So what's an example of what?
So there'll be like 3 Ed.

1434
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,680
He gives them all little names.
All the quirky names are really

1435
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,240
nice to remember for the kids as
well if you try using a three.

1436
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,280
ED3ED.
Three Ed sentence is literally 3

1437
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,520
adjectives in a row, all
separated by a comma.

1438
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,760
But all they all end in Ed might
be exhausted, comma, worried,

1439
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,160
defeated, defeated comma.
Freddie walked away from the

1440
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:25,520
fight.
Did you know what I mean?

1441
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:26,760
Like stuff like that.
Effect.

1442
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,720
Yeah, it's all about effect.
And it's like, do you know what

1443
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:29,880
is?
What's missing in a?

1444
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,360
Fronted adverbial lesson or a
lesson that you know, we're

1445
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:34,960
doing a lesson.
The war is we're starting

1446
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,560
sentences with verbs or Ed words
or adjectives, whatever.

1447
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:40,800
I don't know if I would
naturally do that.

1448
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,000
I'd probably go a bit formulaic
and be like, right, everyone's

1449
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,400
going to do.
Without.

1450
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,640
Without.
Without hesitation, without.

1451
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,880
Hesitation comma.
Freddy walked away from the

1452
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,640
fight feeling defeated.
Comma Freddie walked away from

1453
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:53,560
the fight.
Don't know why someone's

1454
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,120
fighting in this, but probably
wouldn't use that.

1455
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:56,320
And why they've been defeated
they've.

1456
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,960
Been defeated, Yeah, yeah.
And why it's not called Dylan

1457
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,120
Price, but yeah.
So you've got 25 different

1458
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,640
sentence.
Feeling defeated, Mr. Price then

1459
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:05,640
his class back in.
Repeat.

1460
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,240
Yeah, literally, that's the one
I'm gonna use, but.

1461
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:10,480
You get that?
You get that?

1462
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:12,160
Back into the writing, it's
lost.

1463
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,600
There's 24 more of those.
They're all more about the

1464
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,960
creativity and the generating
interest to your reader and

1465
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,480
effect, right?
But embedded in, and they do

1466
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,240
have grammar, punctuation you
can pull out of it.

1467
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:23,880
So you can use them.
We've done it in six loads of

1468
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,600
times.
We've done whole lessons where

1469
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,560
the literal lesson is designed
around those sentence type

1470
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:28,720
types.
We be like, we're going to do

1471
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,240
these three sentence types.
And when when we're doing it, we

1472
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,280
can say to the kids, oh, by the
way, that's a relative clause.

1473
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:35,920
Yeah, yeah.
By doing this.

1474
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,280
Best way of doing it?
100% the best way of doing it.

1475
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,400
It's all about effect.
As the writer, why you doing it

1476
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,240
for effect?
By the way, you've also done

1477
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:43,600
that.
In the meantime, you shouldn't

1478
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,240
start by thinking, well, this
sentence needs a fronted verbal.

1479
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,920
What do you even mean?
That doesn't mean anything.

1480
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,200
We've really nonsense.
We've really shifted towards

1481
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,680
that recently, like our learning
objectives now where it

1482
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,760
previously would have been
something like we're learning to

1483
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:57,840
vary sentence language.
Sure.

1484
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,120
It's now we're using things like
we're learning to create

1485
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:01,920
suspense and tension, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1486
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:05,600
And in that lesson, we explore
how, oh, this is kind of a cool

1487
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,600
way to do it, isn't it?
Look at how varying our sentence

1488
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,240
length does that.
Should we do that?

1489
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,280
Guys, let's do that.
And I'm finding more and more

1490
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,960
powerful that you can do that
with basically everything.

1491
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,000
Honestly, if you really think
about it, you can just make it

1492
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,480
interesting and creative and
pull out the grammar and

1493
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,000
punctuation.
I just think we got a little bit

1494
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,640
too obsessed with the grammar
punctuation over the last

1495
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,200
decade.
Completely, completely instead

1496
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:26,680
of detriment of any creative
writing.

1497
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,600
So Alan, very formulaic Alan
Pete.

1498
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,240
Check him out.
Incredible resources on top of

1499
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,000
that, this is just one of the
many things he does.

1500
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,400
Let's wind this up then with a
few more generic ones, a couple

1501
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,480
of AI ones.
Suno AI helps you make songs.

1502
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,240
I've made a song about the water
cycle, so you can go in and you

1503
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:42,800
can say I want a song about the
water cycle.

1504
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,320
We talked about the power of
songs in maths.

1505
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,680
Really cool tool, because I know
teachers who sat there before

1506
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,440
and said, oh, I'm going to
change the lyrics to this really

1507
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,480
popular song to try and help
children remember something,

1508
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,040
which is such a nice thing to
do.

1509
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,040
OK, it's great, but who has the
time for that these days?

1510
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,960
Yeah, Suno AI does it for you.
It works, it's funny.

1511
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,960
And then in general image
generation, now I've not got a

1512
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:03,600
specific one for this because so
many do it.

1513
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,880
ChatGPT does it now.
Copilot did it for a few times

1514
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:08,440
that I've used that.
You've used one called Leonardo.

1515
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,800
Leonardo dot AI.
Yeah, so there's loads of free

1516
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,040
ones out there, but the power of
generating an image, and I've

1517
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,600
done it with my year fours and
it really brings their writing

1518
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:17,520
to life.
Yes, we did.

1519
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:21,880
Character description and the
idea that what they wrote down

1520
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:27,840
on the paper directly affected
what the AI generated gave that

1521
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:31,000
purpose we spoke about.
It's no longer just put two

1522
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,480
adjectives separated by a comma
because you want a noun phrase.

1523
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,560
It's not that anymore.
It's what's really powerful

1524
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,720
language and vocabulary you can
use that will affect this

1525
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,960
machine to make a character you
want to see.

1526
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,320
And if it makes a character you
don't want to see go away with

1527
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,760
your writing, cross out some
adjectives, refine it.

1528
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,960
If you want a more cartoon style
or something a bit more eerie,

1529
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:52,640
you need to change your
adjectives because the AI is

1530
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:57,000
reacting to what you've put.
It made those words have clout.

1531
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,320
It made it a meaningful lesson
suddenly.

1532
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,520
And the children were so engaged
because at the end of it, I

1533
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,480
generated their images and
showed them and they were

1534
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,000
buzzing.
And if they weren't buzzing,

1535
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,840
they went away, crossed it out,
edited, which is, and again a

1536
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:14,480
national curriculum, but it's
embedded in A use for them.

1537
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,760
They can literally see.
So the editing had an effect

1538
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,000
because then the picture
changed.

1539
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,040
So it wasn't just editing
because I need to take off

1540
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:21,680
editing and we need to see that
you've improved your word

1541
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:23,640
choice.
It's actively changing what's

1542
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:24,720
coming out of it.
And the kids were.

1543
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,640
So happy with it.
I like how in your description

1544
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,280
there maybe realise that the AI
is basically becoming a reader.

1545
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:32,800
It's like you're actually
getting to test it for real.

1546
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:34,920
It's like you're getting a,
you're getting a glimpse into

1547
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,840
the reader's mind when they read
what you've written.

1548
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:38,560
This is roughly what they might
be imagining.

1549
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:40,600
I think that's so powerful.
We're doing the same with

1550
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:41,640
setting description at the
moment.

1551
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,200
We've been using ChatGPT,
putting in our descriptions and

1552
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,440
getting it to generate an image
to see if it's roughly kind of

1553
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,080
what they were hoping for.
So yeah, it's incredibly.

1554
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:52,440
Could be useful because as a
teacher, used to be the person

1555
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,400
who'd be like, oh, this could do
with some more tension.

1556
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:55,920
Just written in their book after
recently.

1557
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,080
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is the ultimate feedback.

1558
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,000
But also, by the way, just
making prompts as well.

1559
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:00,840
Yeah.
So the way around, if you

1560
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,560
actually want to get the kids to
write about something, you want

1561
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:04,880
to do something very specific in
mind that you want to do a

1562
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,200
second description on or a
character description, just

1563
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,880
tell, just tell the AI to make a
picture of it is remarkably

1564
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:11,120
accurate.
So yeah, on Google looking for

1565
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:12,480
the perfect picture of gross
can't find.

1566
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:13,560
It.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1567
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:14,520
absolutely.
Really good.

1568
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,560
So last last few just very
general yeah Canva education is

1569
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,760
amazing.
You can get logged in as an

1570
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:20,840
educator.
You need to upload.

1571
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,760
I think your school pass.
You don't get, I don't think all

1572
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,440
the features of premium, but you
get a lot of them and it's

1573
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,640
amazing for creating slides or
effects and canvas cameras.

1574
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,080
Unbelievable.
And if you're like me, canvas

1575
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,560
one of those things where I
remember Canva like six or seven

1576
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,320
years ago and I remember and,
and it was just, it is not even

1577
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:38,720
the same thing anymore.
It's not the same beast.

1578
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,320
I remember camera being thinking
like, ah, this is right.

1579
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,680
It's very specific, very niche.
Maybe it's social media kind of

1580
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,160
thing.
It is unbelievable now they have

1581
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,200
pumped so much money into
camera.

1582
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,120
It has incredible tools on.
It and it's and like we said,

1583
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:54,400
it's free, which is always nice.
Kahoot and Blocket, these two

1584
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,160
always seem to come together.
Basically interactive quizzes

1585
01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:58,040
that you can make for your
class.

1586
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,760
If you're going to do a kind of
a quiz of your class that you're

1587
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,280
writing anyway, why not just put
it into Coot or Blocket?

1588
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,240
The children get a device, they
log in and it's like a game

1589
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:07,840
show.
They pick ABC or D.

1590
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,680
It's interactive, they get
points, they can play against

1591
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,400
each other.
Any competition's really good.

1592
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:13,840
Most of you will have heard of
it.

1593
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:15,720
For example, I've heard of
Blocket.

1594
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:17,680
I've not used Blocket.
I looked up, I saw it.

1595
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,320
It's very similar to Kahoot.
I want to use Blocket now.

1596
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,440
I'm hoping people listening be
like, OK, I've heard this enough

1597
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,480
now guy, you've said it as well.
I will just Google it and have a

1598
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,760
look because there are three
things you can use again on them

1599
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,720
both if you just want to use it
for that.

1600
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,960
And then finally you want to
talk about Class Dojo.

1601
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,640
Yeah, last one from me.
Class Dojo.

1602
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:36,600
I don't think I would use it as
a whole school approach all

1603
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,280
year, all the time for behaviour
tracking.

1604
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,880
But Class Dojo is really cool
because you can upload all of

1605
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,000
your children's names and they
all get a little avatar on this

1606
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:44,320
website.
It's very easy to use.

1607
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:48,040
You can just bookmark it in
your, in your Google Chrome,

1608
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,160
whatever.
And yeah, each kid gets an

1609
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:51,640
avatar and you can just give
them points.

1610
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,560
You can make, you can customise
what the points are for.

1611
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:55,960
You can click them, you can give
them, add a point for good

1612
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,720
behaviour, whatever it is that
you know, add a point for not

1613
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:01,440
making Mr. Price come back in
and after here we go lesson

1614
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,160
early, all those sorts of
things, you know, and I just use

1615
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,600
it genuinely as a hook.
I probably use it one term a

1616
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,200
year because I think it does.
I think it runs its course.

1617
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,280
Yeah, I've seen before a bit of
controversy around it in terms

1618
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,360
of like parents complaining,
like my kid didn't get points or

1619
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,400
had my kid had points taken away
for this or you've said they

1620
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:21,720
need X amount of points to get a
treat.

1621
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:23,000
They didn't get there.
It's not fair.

1622
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:25,800
I think that goes, I think that
taps into a problem we have in

1623
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,480
general, maybe with entitled
parents.

1624
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,720
I don't think that means that
this is a bad system.

1625
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,120
No, and probably schools.
I imagine there's some schools

1626
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,840
out there that actually use it
really properly and thoroughly

1627
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:37,840
for the school, but I've
personally used it just with my

1628
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,160
class, maybe a term a year.
That's a bit of a laugh.

1629
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:40,960
Do you know what?
It's a hook.

1630
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:42,200
It's a carrot.
It gets them.

1631
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,200
It gets them interacting and
thinking about their learning

1632
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:46,080
behaviours.
And yeah, maybe you can build in

1633
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,320
some sort of reward system.
You know, if you get past 15

1634
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,280
points this term, this is, this
is what you get.

1635
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:51,560
We'll get to have some extra
play.

1636
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,280
But you're right, you've got to
be careful because then when

1637
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,320
that kid gets 14 points, yeah,
exactly.

1638
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:56,640
You're thinking, Oh no, they're
well behaved.

1639
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:58,280
I just didn't notice they did
some things.

1640
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:00,440
And then it becomes I've got to
get the ball to 15 and it

1641
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:01,760
becomes.
Pointless.

1642
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,520
So it's a little tall you can
use as a little carrot.

1643
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,880
Don't take it too seriously, but
Class Dojo, check it out.

1644
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,400
Amazing.
Now there's our list.

1645
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,560
OK, it's not an exhausted list.
We've used many other things.

1646
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,600
And just because it's not on the
list, this list doesn't mean

1647
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,480
it's Pat, OK?
These are just the ones that

1648
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,840
came to our mind as the ones we
use most often.

1649
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:22,480
Personally, what I would love to
hear from you guys is anything

1650
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:25,600
you use because we can put it on
our platform, We can spread the

1651
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,600
word.
Like I said, none of this was an

1652
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:29,760
advertisement whatsoever.
This is just things we're

1653
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,320
teachers.
We find it useful.

1654
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,720
We hope you will find it useful
as well, Hayden, very quickly

1655
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,000
Before we go, I'm really excited
genuinely about going to bet yes

1656
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,600
this week.
Me too and hopefully our next

1657
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,400
episode or the episode after
that we'll we'll be sharing some

1658
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:47,120
of our insights from BET meeting
some some clients there.

1659
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,960
People clients, some clients
yeah we're gonna go there of our

1660
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:50,920
big money.
Hello.

1661
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,160
We're teaching repeat.
What's that 2,000,000 for those

1662
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,160
smart boards?
Yeah, I'll have 5.

1663
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,320
How do we tell them that this
podcast has run on zero budget

1664
01:04:58,320 --> 01:04:59,400
for every two years?
Yeah.

1665
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:00,640
What do?
We say we do.

1666
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:02,640
We do it by laughing at the idea
that we can have clients.

1667
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:03,680
That's.
True, it's true.

1668
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,400
Small thing to be your birthday.
We started this podcast end of

1669
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,560
January, start of February 2023
when the strikes were hitting.

1670
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,520
So yeah, happy early birthday
TC.

1671
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:15,600
Lovely.
Also the fact that 2023 was two

1672
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:16,400
years ago.
Sickening.

1673
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:17,720
Really sickening.
Sickening.

1674
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:18,920
Sickening.
Absolutely.

1675
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,120
Most.
Of my career has been spent post

1676
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:24,680
COVID now yeah that's and that's
insane to me COVID is like more

1677
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,440
than halfway ago in my career
which is oh that doesn't feel

1678
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:32,240
right to me time is flying
anyway yeah so in that.

1679
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:34,880
Existential crisis?
Let's end it there.

1680
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:36,520
The time is flying.
See you.

1681
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:37,600
It's true.
Bye.