Director ITE, Uni of York; teachereducator; history education advocate; lifelong learner; likes nothing more than being outside esp. in the North. Derbyshire lass. Views my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇰🇪🇸🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧
Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
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Standing ovation 👏 this evening for the legend who is James Noble-Rogers, about to retire from UCET after 21 years at the helm. But not before we got Andy H to conduct a special ‘this is your life’ drinks.
Thank you James, for all you have done for the HEI ITE sector over many decades.
#legend
#ucet
We are so so proud of one of our UoY mentors this evening - Erin Josh of Northallerton School & Sixth Form has won the inaugural Helen Snelson HTEN mentoring award! See the thread below for more details as to why, plus all the other incredible mentors who were nominated.
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Oh that's a relief, I was really worried he wouldn't get in... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Important article getting at the heart of retention problems with ECTs. Push-pull factors clear. Lots of good for thought for schools, DfE, trusts, appropriate bodies and ITE providers. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PRNJER...
Good luck to the 2025-26 UoYPGCE primary and secondary cohorts tomorrow as they go into placement schools across Yorkshire & Humberside. You’ve got this!
#newteachergeneration
#pgceUoYprimary
#pgceUoYsecondary
A huge welcome to our 2025-26 @universityofyork PGCE cohort! Virtual hello for secondary BTs this week, but the secondary team are looking forward to saying hello in person on Monday next week. Primary BTs already up & running!!
Welcome aboard your PGCE journey at York!
Caz Coronel: “Now, more than ever, we need kindness and compassion and a genuine effort to understand each other, even towards those with prejudice.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
This has me absolutely beaming. The committee voted for the anonymised shortlist to select the winner & it was an incredibly hard call to make. The nominees were all so impressive; their mentees/ tutors spoke so highly of them &their historyteacher #mentoring.
Helen would have been thrilled. 😍
Prof. Claire Ball-Smith
"The ITT curriculum needs to be carefully designed & sequenced in order to maximise learning & retention: overloading the syllabus dilutes the impact of everything in it." A good piece from Yalinie Vigneswaran of @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social, @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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Danny Nicholson (Science Fix book out now!!)
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Alice Roberts
He will follow in the footsteps of his father, the Prince of Wales, who also attended the private school.
ALT: snoopy and woodstock are holding a pink flag that says good luck
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Jill Berry
It is with pleasure we can announce
ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School
as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award.
There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership.
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#historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
ALT: a cartoon of goofy standing in front of a blackboard with the words " a teacher " written on it
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
It is with pleasure we can announce
ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School
as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award.
There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership.
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#historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
We can’t solve every challenge in society by adding it into teacher training - but government-backed professional development would help teachers to play their part, says Yalinie Vigneswaran
Many of us involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation have been keen to see subject, & distinctive nature of our discipline, re-centred in the recent focus on instructional coaching & core-practices in schools. It was brilliant, therefore, to read 'Secondary History in Action'. 1/
