Simon Beale @SPBeale
Head of History & Politics. teaching and learning strategies. #historyteacher. Co-founder of @historybookgrp. see my pinned tweet for resources. historyiseverystory.wordpress.com London Joined July 2011-
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My opinion is that YouTube is a good example of a technology that has harmed education. The "good" use case is for when you need to show a film of something you can't directly do yourself, or by definition cannot be done without access to video. In science, that might be a slow motion film of crystal growth or a clip of a rocket launch, or blowing up a lump of caesium in a bath tub. In English, it might be a great actor reading a sonnet. In geography, it might be the waves acting on a cliff. You get the point, and it makes sense. Unfortunately, what it *became* is teachers offloading their explanation. You open YouTube, type in the topic, and presto you get a video. At best, you get BBC Bitesize. At worst, and ordinarily, you get some American cartoon with nice graphics and a good jingle in the background. Even the best option isn't great. These videos are almost always completely unsuitable. They move too fast, include vocabulary your students don't know, aren't tied to your curriculum, and rarely adhere to the basic principles of how to construct an explanation. I see this a LOT in my journeys around different schools. And I always test my theories. I ask students basic questions about the videos and the content, and invariably they just don't understand it (or worse, actively pick up misconceptions). One of the sadder things here is that the construction of an explanation is the beating heart of the lesson, and it should be a thing of joy and excitement for a teacher to sit and really figure out how they are going to communicate their subject. After watching a lesson with a video, I'll almost always ask the teacher "do you really not think you could have done a better job yourself?" It's a punchy thing to say, but I've never had anyone reply "no" yet. Can YouTube be used well? Sure. Is it? No. Can we all do better? Hells yeah.
@KyrstieStubbs @britishmuseum It was! Such a fun day.
Wonderful day with the twins at @britishmuseum. They wanted to see the mummies after reading about them and it made my heart soar when they matched the pictures in their books to the artefacts. The Reading Room has become a highlight for me, the range of figures that have visited
Side note. The comments from bystanders that: A) it’s daddy day care day B) double trouble/hands full C) poor him on his own Are unwelcome and boring. I’m enjoying a day with my two amazing children.
I recently re-shared a post about sources of historical scholarship. Here is the sequel! How to embed historical scholarship in your lesson with over 25 practical approaches. Organised as a hierarchy based on how much time it takes to implement. historyiseverystory.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/emb…
@ballater6 I don’t want to believe this, but this week has made it hard to argue.
No celebs, no consultants, no edu speakers. Just go into schools and ask day to day: leaders, classroom teachers, LSAs, the site team, the catering team, non pupil facing support staff, parents and pupils what issues schools are facing.
@adamboxer1 Doubling down on a point about reach that I don’t really understand.
@KateJones_teach Educators INSIDE the UK are wondering who Gemma Collins is.
@MsAylingHist @JoshPreyeGarry Thanks so much Sian. Really appreciate you taking the time to write it and flagging it for me.
People working in schools are often going full tilt, constantly busy, always stimulated by their environment. I'm increasingly aware of this as a problem around three limitations that affect everyone: a) Cognitive bandwidth- you can only think about so many things at once b) Chronological bandwidth- your time is finite, and only so much can be done c) Emotional bandwidth- you can only care about so much at once Overloading any one of these three leads to that sinking sense of helplessness, stress, and being overwhelmed. We often conflate all of these as workload, but that collapses too many things into one. I also think that they play off against each other. Lack of time affects what you can think about; but having to juggle too many relationships can also exhaust what you can get done, etc.
@MsAylingHist Yes! Would love to read this. Been struggling for years to grow our cohort.
Charles III is doing a fantastic job of providing stability, compassion and unity.
Amazing conversation happening on @TTRadioOfficial. @bones_carmel discussing her new book “Clockwork Classrooms”. A lifetime of experience distilled into a sensational compendium of precise pedagogy. 6 chapters of advice. Can’t wait to read it.
Clockwork Classrooms - Solutions for smoother running lessons x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
I have compiled every question AQA GCSE Q & mapped it against the specification. I can show students the questions that have come up, what is yet to be asked and most importantly the importance of covering the whole specification in your revision! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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