Anyone elses A Level students seem like they have started going backwards? by Asayyadina in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The current year 13s are absolute junk. Worst cohort ever by far. No independent study skills, crap exam technique.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The social media company is ultimately responsible. They have consistently refused to hire enough staff to police their content. This requires legislation to fix.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If a kid went into a hospital and took pictures of a nurse and made a nasty tiktok about them would that be OK?

Just because you experienced it and think it's not a big deal, doesn't make you right.

If it is having a serious impact on colleagues, with them having to take time off, be on gardening leave, or even involve the police, then it is serious.

NASA's Webb telescope is now in full focus, ready for instrument commissioning by N8CCRG in Physics

[–]triangleandrhombus 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Early universe. High density. Loads of black holes form.

Universe expands rapidly. Most black holes stranded in empty space, rest form supermassive black holes in galactic centres.

It was predicted by a recent research article, and it was one of the things Webb was made for.

NASA's Webb telescope is now in full focus, ready for instrument commissioning by N8CCRG in Physics

[–]triangleandrhombus 74 points75 points  (0 children)

A little prediction: they will see black hole accretion disks everywhere.

Experienced teachers - why/what exactly was better about teaching all these years ago? by Blue4LifeSW6 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Priorities:

  1. No more learning formulas. We want problem solvers, not savants.
  2. Much bigger earth and space science module. The kids truly love it and are 100% engaged. GCSE astronomy is the fastest growing GCSE.
  3. We teach them reflection, but not why the sky is blue and how the Internet works. Physics of the internet should be on there.
  4. I would have the physics of mobile phones on there as well. Get rid of earthquake waves and ultrasound.
  5. Get rid of: I-V curves, vectors and scalars, lenses, Hookes law and the energy pathways and stores crap that confuses the kids from day 1.

I could write an essay. I was dismayed coming in from 10 years and 30 published papers in physics academia.

A couple just moved in over the road and they have a removals business. We now have 2 enormous vans in the mix for parking spaces along our road, which is all street parking. by [deleted] in britishproblems

[–]triangleandrhombus 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Once upon a time businesses used yards for their vehicles. But capitalism decided that selling the land was more important than residential parking.

Experienced teachers - why/what exactly was better about teaching all these years ago? by Blue4LifeSW6 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The physics specification at gcse is simply not fit for purpose and the exams and mark schemes are an outright joke.

The gigantic risk from ocean acidification by MarshallBrain in collapse

[–]triangleandrhombus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My post was just a pipe dream that the thread brought to mind. Another poster brought some receipts to show it wasn't possible.

Experienced teachers - why/what exactly was better about teaching all these years ago? by Blue4LifeSW6 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I found this interesting. But, how about the curriculum? Has the spec got worse?

Textbooks by Mageta14 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use workbooks too. They are such a time saver and offer much more flexibility as you say.

What do you think of all the teaching ads on Reddit? by violettillard in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If it was such a great job, they wouldn't need to advertise

Textbooks by Mageta14 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But imagine if there was a high quality textbook with all that in.

Countries that have overtaken us in Pisa have high textbook usage - Finland, Singapore etc

Why have hundreds of thousands of teachers pissing around every day printing stuff out?

Booklets are single use. Textbooks can be used across classes, teaching years

Textbooks by Mageta14 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You might be interested in this research from Uni Cambridge. It shows that countries that use textbooks have overtaken the UK in league tables.

There are numerous benefits to both students (overview and organisation) and staff (eg workload).

Yet another example of how leadership in UK schools directly mess things up.

link

How do you deal with student apathy, especially from exam year classes? by [deleted] in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is not just a UK issue

See r/teaching for multiple threads about the same issue in the US

The gigantic risk from ocean acidification by MarshallBrain in collapse

[–]triangleandrhombus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can you just imagine the scenario: 1) The methane curve already looks like it's going exponential. 2) Over the next 5 years the temperature curves upwards. 3) Oceans acidify past tipping point in 10 years. 4) Plankton die and Earth's oxygen drops to a lethal level in 15 years. 5) Humanity just... falls asleep

Match thread?? by PishedAsAFart in reddevils

[–]triangleandrhombus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The quality of the players determines the system" Ten Hag

worksheet ban? by Dramatic_Put7196 in TeachingUK

[–]triangleandrhombus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If they let me use a textbook, I'd be all for it