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Phil Beadle

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Phil Beadle

@PhilBeadle

Teacher, author of twelve books, training provider and speaker. Expert in literacy, behaviour management, cultural capital, white working class achievement.

London

Joined June 2009

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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Feb 11, 2025
At villa Park for e-act poetry festival, sharing a stage with imtiaz dharker today.
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Feb 7, 2025
We all get a little disregulated from time to time, but isn't body language interesting?
LBC
@LBC
Feb 7, 2025
'I'm just asking for less arrogance and some humility to understand what we actually do.' Headmistress of Michaela Community School @Miss_Snuffy feels like she is in a ‘David vs Goliath’ battle with the Education Secretary over academy school 'freedoms.'
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Aug 30, 2021
There it is, right on cue, same as every year: the dream that I can't teach for shit, haven't marked their work for weeks and can't control the behaviour at all. Never misses a year - always horrid.
Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Sep 5, 2022
I've read three edu books in the last week and my conclusion is ... there's quite a few people who don't appear to have imposter syndrome who might want to consider it.
Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Apr 29, 2023
Here is my take on authoritarian behaviour management techniques, specifically SLANT, for anyone who should care to read it: philbeadle.com/SLANT/41/
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Sep 29, 2021
So, this is the first time I've taken 10s into 11 for 16 years, and I'd forgotten the profound depth of trust you obtain in that second year together. I am loving teaching at the moment - twenty-five years after I started - and don't want it to end.
Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Oct 19, 2023
I've worked in one of the schools at the top of this list. Students were exhausted as they did nothing but go to school (seven days a week). They felt that they were being subjected to completely inhuman treatment. I agreed with them. Results are not just academic.
Robert Colvile
@rcolvile
Oct 19, 2023
My colleague @lehain is tweeting the details but today's provisional Progress 8 scores represent an absolute triumph for @michaelgove, @Miss_Snuffy, @MerciaSchool et al - and for @StarAcademies too. These are now the best schools in the country, in some of the toughest places.
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Oct 26, 2023
Pressed send on 'Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Teach Like a Totalitarian' this week. It' gone to publishers. Expect a nuclear explosion at Easter. It's time the abuse of children to serve the pockets of grifters is revealed for what it is. Any professors who wanna help DM me.
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Jan 11, 2021
Jeez, on-line teaching talk a lot of planning. It makes you realise how much you rely on humour, busking, relationships, getting things mostly right and being tcharismatic in lessons. It's also more angsty in delivery. And more sressful. Not overly keen.
Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Jun 13, 2023
Head of Ofsted - sum total of lessons taught: 0. sum total of ability to properly empathise with the stresses that inspections put humans through: 0. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Feb 5, 2021
Marking Year 11 creative writing. "It was all a dream" apparently. "NO. NO. NOT. It was NOT all a dream. NO it wasn't. You are not five and I am not well trained enough to be an early years teacher." NOT, NOT, NOT, NEVER."
Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
Jun 30, 2023
This is an excellent article by an actual teacher:
If you think absent pupils are skiving, just try spending a day in a school | Nadeine Asbali
From theguardian.com
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Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
May 9, 2016
Just did KS2 SPAG test with son as prep for tomorrow. I got five wrong. I write books on this kind of stuff. IT'S TOO HARD for 11 year olds.
Phil Beadle
@PhilBeadle
May 20, 2023
This is what is happening on the ground:
Class sizes in England could go up to 60 warn heads in funding pay row
From theguardian.com
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