Claire Rohdie
@clairerohdie.bsky.social
Assistant Head in charge of teaching and learning at a school in Gloucestershire. Sociology and geography teacher. Love mountain walking, swimming and cycling. Gorgeous dog called Hugo!
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‘Learning Barriers, not labels’
“Would you teach differently if you were to learn about the designation of the special educational need?”
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‘Learning Barriers, not labels’
“Would you teach differently if you were to learn about the designation of the special educational need?”
alexquigley.co.uk/learning-bar...
Learning barriers, not labels
Let me introduce you to James.
James finds it hard to articulate his thoughts due to limits to his vocabulary and a difficulty in understanding complex language in class. He can rely on simple words,...
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May 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🚨 NEW POST 🚨
‘Learning Barriers, not labels’
“Would you teach differently if you were to learn about the designation of the special educational need?”
alexquigley.co.uk/learning-bar...
‘Learning Barriers, not labels’
“Would you teach differently if you were to learn about the designation of the special educational need?”
alexquigley.co.uk/learning-bar...
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Engaging in, or condoning, practices based on false information maintains misconceptions and multiplies its influence.
Our blog on the use of coloured overlays in schools: ‘Papering Over the Reading Gap’ explains more wp.me/p4hKgx-7Xq (7 min read).
#EduBlogUK #EduSky
Our blog on the use of coloured overlays in schools: ‘Papering Over the Reading Gap’ explains more wp.me/p4hKgx-7Xq (7 min read).
#EduBlogUK #EduSky
April 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Engaging in, or condoning, practices based on false information maintains misconceptions and multiplies its influence.
Our blog on the use of coloured overlays in schools: ‘Papering Over the Reading Gap’ explains more wp.me/p4hKgx-7Xq (7 min read).
#EduBlogUK #EduSky
Our blog on the use of coloured overlays in schools: ‘Papering Over the Reading Gap’ explains more wp.me/p4hKgx-7Xq (7 min read).
#EduBlogUK #EduSky
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Reposted by Claire Rohdie
Why are so many schools picking the same texts for English literature GCSE students? @jasminenorden.bsky.social investigates
Revealed: The most and least popular GCSE English lit texts
Schools need support to break away from An Inspector Calls to cover texts by authors from more diverse backgrounds, say experts
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April 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Why are so many schools picking the same texts for English literature GCSE students? @jasminenorden.bsky.social investigates
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Reposted by Claire Rohdie
The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
April 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
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Would love this! @suchmo83.bsky.social is someone I have a great deal of respect for! Whomever wins this will be in for a treat! 📚📖
The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
April 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Would love this! @suchmo83.bsky.social is someone I have a great deal of respect for! Whomever wins this will be in for a treat! 📚📖
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One of the most effective ways to drive effective inclusion is to make our teaching ‘accessible by default’.
Let's dig into what that means:
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Let's dig into what that means:
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April 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One of the most effective ways to drive effective inclusion is to make our teaching ‘accessible by default’.
Let's dig into what that means:
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Let's dig into what that means:
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Good notes are notes that are:
-Formatted for spaced retrieval practice
-Condensing large amounts of information
-Building understanding
-Recording and monitoring understanding
#EduSky
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28
-Formatted for spaced retrieval practice
-Condensing large amounts of information
-Building understanding
-Recording and monitoring understanding
#EduSky
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28
Notetaking Formats — The Learning Scientists
One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that ...
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March 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Good notes are notes that are:
-Formatted for spaced retrieval practice
-Condensing large amounts of information
-Building understanding
-Recording and monitoring understanding
#EduSky
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28
-Formatted for spaced retrieval practice
-Condensing large amounts of information
-Building understanding
-Recording and monitoring understanding
#EduSky
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28
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"..and the physics & the maths involved became relatable to what I was doing." Interview with astronaut Tim Peake in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: tes.com/magazine/tea... 2/2
Tim Peake: from A-level disappointment to outer space
The astronaut tells us about his unusual path to the stars, and how he would like to see Stem develop in UK schools
tes.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"..and the physics & the maths involved became relatable to what I was doing." Interview with astronaut Tim Peake in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: tes.com/magazine/tea... 2/2
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🚨BANGING NEW EXPERIMENTAL STUDY on effective teacher development just dropped.
Quick summary:
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Quick summary:
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February 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🚨BANGING NEW EXPERIMENTAL STUDY on effective teacher development just dropped.
Quick summary:
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Quick summary:
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*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them.
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Choral Response and ‘I Say You Say’
The longer a teacher talks for, the more likely it is the number of pupils paying attention decreases. The trick to sustaining attention is to ask pupils questions and to expect 100% participation …
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February 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them.
bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/c...
bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/c...
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@lauraturnerr.bsky.social @jgg4.bsky.social @clairerohdie.bsky.social @stevehickman.bsky.social @stupotwakefield.bsky.social @kknteachlearn.bsky.social @hartleyian.bsky.social . Ken Browne's A level Sociology hashtags. Use to build a bank of l A Level Soc resources. bsky.app/profile/brow...
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February 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@lauraturnerr.bsky.social @jgg4.bsky.social @clairerohdie.bsky.social @stevehickman.bsky.social @stupotwakefield.bsky.social @kknteachlearn.bsky.social @hartleyian.bsky.social . Ken Browne's A level Sociology hashtags. Use to build a bank of l A Level Soc resources. bsky.app/profile/brow...
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"We should perhaps be cautious about being superficially impressed by someone who oozes charisma." My new blog post this week: jillberry102.blog/2025/02/04/c...
Charisma? Gravitas? Or ‘Presence’?
I recently enjoyed this short (6 minute) podcast from Bennie Kara on the subject of ‘Charisma’. I agree with Bennie that ‘charisma’ isn’t necessarily something we should see as…
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February 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"We should perhaps be cautious about being superficially impressed by someone who oozes charisma." My new blog post this week: jillberry102.blog/2025/02/04/c...
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NEW BLOG: Where have all the Headteachers gone? #Edusky #Schools #Headteacher @headteacherchat.bsky.social @teachertapp.bsky.social pls share. southgloshead.wordpress.com/2024/08/31/w...
Where have all the Headteachers gone…?
Being a Headteacher was what I wanted to do since I first stepped into the classroom in 1996. I turned 50 last week. Properly old! I've also been asked by the lovely people at Bloomsbury to write a bo...
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August 31, 2024 at 9:03 PM
NEW BLOG: Where have all the Headteachers gone? #Edusky #Schools #Headteacher @headteacherchat.bsky.social @teachertapp.bsky.social pls share. southgloshead.wordpress.com/2024/08/31/w...
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Reposted by Claire Rohdie
We must ask whether SEND determination is useful to those assigned the labels.
Too often it isn't because the processes and associated actions are so inconsistent they're meaningless.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...
Too often it isn't because the processes and associated actions are so inconsistent they're meaningless.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...
February 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We must ask whether SEND determination is useful to those assigned the labels.
Too often it isn't because the processes and associated actions are so inconsistent they're meaningless.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...
Too often it isn't because the processes and associated actions are so inconsistent they're meaningless.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...
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We know students love stories but how you do you actually tell them? How do they connect with your wider lesson sequence and its enquiry question? What do you get pupils to do with them? @hughrichards.bsky.social will explain, using beautiful examples from our new KS3 textbooks #ChangingHistoriesKS3
Really excited to be doing this FREE webinar about stories in History with @counsellc.bsky.social - sign up if you’re interested in learning more about stories in the classroom.
Some good stuff in there for teachers and HoDs alike
Please RT/spread the word!
Register here 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER
Some good stuff in there for teachers and HoDs alike
Please RT/spread the word!
Register here 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER
January 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We know students love stories but how you do you actually tell them? How do they connect with your wider lesson sequence and its enquiry question? What do you get pupils to do with them? @hughrichards.bsky.social will explain, using beautiful examples from our new KS3 textbooks #ChangingHistoriesKS3
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***New Post***
Twitter folk got quite upset about the idea of 40 lesson observations a few weeks back. My take on why it doesn't have to be the beast of old and can give us some real opportunities.
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/s...
Twitter folk got quite upset about the idea of 40 lesson observations a few weeks back. My take on why it doesn't have to be the beast of old and can give us some real opportunities.
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/s...
Slaying a Beast
Observations are a topic which provokes strong feelings in teachers. Many of us went through years of high stakes observation where a single lesson could be used to determine the future of your car…
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January 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
***New Post***
Twitter folk got quite upset about the idea of 40 lesson observations a few weeks back. My take on why it doesn't have to be the beast of old and can give us some real opportunities.
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/s...
Twitter folk got quite upset about the idea of 40 lesson observations a few weeks back. My take on why it doesn't have to be the beast of old and can give us some real opportunities.
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/s...
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*NEW post* Becoming Better People.
Do your pupils become more polite, more hard working & more responsible each year they progress through school?
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Do your pupils become more polite, more hard working & more responsible each year they progress through school?
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Becoming Better People
Are your pupils more polite at the end of Year 7 compared to the start of Year 7? Do pupils in Year 8 work harder than pupils in Year 7 because their habits of working have improved over their time…
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December 23, 2024 at 9:13 AM
*NEW post* Becoming Better People.
Do your pupils become more polite, more hard working & more responsible each year they progress through school?
bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/b...
Do your pupils become more polite, more hard working & more responsible each year they progress through school?
bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/b...
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At Reach there’s no limit to what you can achieve within our values-driven culture of high expectations & strong relationships built on mutual respect. @lilystaff.bsky.social reading programme is proof of this.
Want to join us & grow your career? reachacademyhanworthpark.com/jointheteam/
Want to join us & grow your career? reachacademyhanworthpark.com/jointheteam/
December 22, 2024 at 3:31 PM
At Reach there’s no limit to what you can achieve within our values-driven culture of high expectations & strong relationships built on mutual respect. @lilystaff.bsky.social reading programme is proof of this.
Want to join us & grow your career? reachacademyhanworthpark.com/jointheteam/
Want to join us & grow your career? reachacademyhanworthpark.com/jointheteam/
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I keep seeing comment about lessons being fun, so why not roll out my old article on the matter?
We need fun for its own sake, but no need to pretend that it's part of the learning
www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
We need fun for its own sake, but no need to pretend that it's part of the learning
www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
'Schools have forgotten about fun for fun's sake'
We make a mistake trying to inject fun into lessons - we should simply aim to make schools more fun in general
www.tes.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I keep seeing comment about lessons being fun, so why not roll out my old article on the matter?
We need fun for its own sake, but no need to pretend that it's part of the learning
www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
We need fun for its own sake, but no need to pretend that it's part of the learning
www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
Global development module- we looked at the patterns of the key terms to help learn them- prefixes, suffixes, portmanteau words and initialisms. #sociology . We also plotted the whole module on a tree.
December 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Global development module- we looked at the patterns of the key terms to help learn them- prefixes, suffixes, portmanteau words and initialisms. #sociology . We also plotted the whole module on a tree.