Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺
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Maths teacher @davismallow |HoD|NQT Mentor|T&L coach|PhD from @DCUMaths |Past Chair @Imtanational | Co-author #JCSuccess Mathematics. #edutwitter #education #FBPE
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Kids' menu at a Scottish restaurant.
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Researchers at MIT have questioned whether SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) actually work. They suggest we might get better outcomes if we make our goals FAST (frequently discussed, ambitious, specific and transparent) not SMART.
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In the 90s Mattel introduced a doll named “Share-a-Smile Becky,” a friend of Barbie's who used a wheelchair. Becky was an instant hit - as many as 6,000 dolls were sold in the first two weeks. But a problem soon became apparent. Becky's wheelchair was incompatible with (1/3)
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the Barbie line’s Dreamhouse. The frame of the doll’s chair did not fit through the front door or the lift. Mattel responded to the concerns by discontinuing the doll. Ableism is so entrenched in our society that our toy buildings are inaccessible, and a doll is excluded (2/3)
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because of structural barriers. Rather than redesigning the Dreamhouse so it was accessible to Becky, Mattel dealt with the problem by making Becky disappear. (3/3)
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Don't forget to celebrate the positives today.
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Over a hundred blank maps of the world, countries, continents and more.
All organised here on the google drive by Laura Pellegrino so you don't have to go searching !
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Very nice Bloom's Taxonomy cheat sheet! Fantastic for planning, questioning and skill development.
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Nice little resource for students to help them understand command words in questions
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Teacher: Don't touch anything until I explain the activity.
Students:
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Data is critical to improvement but without a meaningful context it's difficult to use data to promote change. When we explain data with a compelling story that links to people's values and a sense of shared purpose, then things start to move..
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Settler grid - ask students to pick one and complete at the start of class - great method for retrieval.
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Dyscalculia: difficulty in understanding numbers.
Dysgraphia: difficulty converting the sounds of language into written form.
Dyspraxia: difficulty affecting physical co-ordination.
Dyslexia: difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters and other symbols.
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More useful apps - the language in the categories is a bit awkward but you find the name of the apps. The hyperlinks don't work but you can find them through or google.
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I can't recommend this enough. The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how a mathematician operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and sometimes teachers!) reflect on this.
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Nice little resource for students to help them understand command words in questions. Command words are the words and phrases used in exams and other assessment tasks that tell students how they should answer the question.
Link for printing:
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Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how a mathematician operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and even teachers!) reflect on this.
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Settler grid - ask students to pick one and complete at the start of class - great method for retrieval.
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Have shown the benefits of using Lego for fractions before. New one here - dominoes for mixed fractions.
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Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how a mathematician operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and sometimes teachers!) reflect on this.
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Useful ipad apps for learners with dyslexia/reading/writing difficulties. However, it's a handy wheel in general for everyone. Share it with anyone that you think would find it beneficial. PDF link below.
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Love this gamified question hierarchy! Brilliant way to promote deeper thought.
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Very nice Bloom's Taxonomy cheat sheet! Fantastic for planning, questioning and skill development.
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Dyscalculia: difficulty in understanding numbers.
Dysgraphia: difficulty converting the sounds of language into written form.
Dyspraxia: difficulty affecting physical co-ordination.
Dyslexia: difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters and other symbols.
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Enjoy where you are and who you are right now.
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Twenty five giants of Rhetoric
Knowing rhetorical devices is good, recognising them is better, using them is best!
LINK for a PDF
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Twenty great youtube channels to support students' maths development.
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Amazing Lesson Design Outline - Miguel Guhlin, this is a helpful resource based on research-based classroom strategies packed with lots of useful links. Great for anyone looking for something new in their teaching practice or those just starting out.
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Check out ‘’.
Type in or paste whatever text you wish and it will identify each word class in the sentence for you! A very useful resource.
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Amazing Lesson Design Outline - Miguel Guhlin, this is a helpful resource based on research-based classroom strategies packed with lots of useful links. Great for anyone looking for something new in their teaching practice or those just starting out.
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Key principles taken from Making Every Lesson Count.
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Have you ever considered using lego to teach fractions?
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Settler grid - ask students to pick one and complete at the start of class - great method for retrieval.
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Turf, coal or wood - it felt like everyone's grandparents had one of these.
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What is a successful student....?
Can download it from as a powerpoint, pdf or png thanks to the hectic teacher.
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Check out these 126 digital verbs linked with Bloom's Taxonomy to aid planning. Guaranteed to get you thinking digitally
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COILLTE should probably have had a second go at making this sign for The CUT recreation park in the Slieve Bloom mountains.
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Teacher waiting for her Easter holidays - self portrait by Emily, aged 25.
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Seven formative assessment stratgies from the great team at Impact.
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Nice way to help students reflect on their learning.
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Want to know which apps allow pupils to develop which skills? Look no further! The Pedagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington.
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Happy Pi Day - Did you know that the mirror image of the approximation 3.14 is PIE!
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Ten things to do when a student says that they don't know.
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Always remember that there's more going on in the background.
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How windows are cleaned at the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh🥰
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Fifty five positive things to say to your child.
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It's one thing to identify a difficulty, it's another to find something to help with it. I like this resource by
@miss_aird
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Going from -8 degrees during the morning commute to tornado watch.
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Five things to remember when dealing with challenging behaviour.
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Love this gamified question hierarchy! Brilliant way to promote deeper thought.
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Twenty five giants of Rhetoric
Knowing rhetorical devices is good, recognising them is better, using them is best!
LINK for a PDF
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Nice idea to encourage students to keep the laptop cart in order.
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Formative assessment and how it can be used effectively.
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Our names are an incredibly important part of our identity. They carry deep personal, cultural, familial, and historical connections. Bourdieu notes the power of names to impose recognition of one's identity upon others. Also the power to impose others' identity upon them.
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Eight ways a child's anxiety can show up as something else.
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Settler grid - ask students to pick one and complete at the start of class - great method for retrieval.
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We should never forget our impact as teachers, it can last a lifetime.
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Hope my proposal to replace Leaving Cert 2021 with one big national Kahoot is given serious consideration in coming days.
#LeavingCert2021
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GIVEAWAY! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 for MathsWeek
I've received a gift of the amazing Compendium of Mathematical Methods by
@mathsjem
However I already own a treasured copy so I want this one to find a new home.
Simply like, comment and retweet to enter. Closes Monday 5pm!
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Live footage from teacher correcting mock exam papers, realising that half the class didn't follow the instructions.
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Don't ever worry about people who don't worry about you.
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Every prime (except for 2 and 3) is one away from a multiple of 6. Thanks Chris for the diagram.
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Breaking down Dyscalculia
I really like ths short video from Tes on it also
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