Did you know that there is a new online service that has been developed to deliver free expert advice and useful information on e-safety in schools?
Teaching Resources UK are giving away free membership every day of 2013! All you need to do to win is sign-up for a FREE 14 day trial to gain access to lesson plans, worksheets and school activities.
The ‘Countryside Investigators’ website is a useful teaching resource that provides thorough information on the protection, enjoyment and employment of the rural environment.
If you are looking for a great hands-on STEM activity take a look at Practical Action’s Floating Garden Challenge, designed for ages 7-19
If you could ask for one gift from Santa this year, what would it be? We think that many busy teachers would choose the gift of time. Christmas is a hectic time in schools and it can be challenging to juggle professional and personal commitments at this time of year.
STEM: Build our future contains free teaching and learning materials for students aged 14-16 from Army in Education.
With all the commercial resources it is nice to come across a website where a teacher used the building of a resource website as an actual learning opportunity for one of his former students.
Playbrighter is a game-based learning environment which contains over 20,000 curricula-based questions to get teachers started and which they can then add to if they want to, allowing them to test their students on any subject area they wish.
‘WebPlay’ is an innovative arts-education organisation with charitable status that has developed inspiring educational projects for schools that combines the creativity of drama with the boundless imagination that technology offers in order to challenge student’s to boost their aspirations, their inventiveness and their awareness of other cultures.
Ten years ago if you wanted to land a job with an international school you had only one of two choices – get yourself to an interview in London or Boston often at great expense with no guarantees of success – or interview over the phone.
The Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) is a charity whose ethics centre around offering young people straightforward, unambiguous information about cancer in a positive and supportive manner.
Get ready for Anti-Bullying Week on 14th November with a brand new assembly from Genes Are Us!
Completely FREE to download and created in partnership with Nowgen and The Progress Educational Trust, Jeans for Genes Day have developed four new films and supporting resources to help students get to grips with the complex topics associated with genes and genetics.
Roald Dahl Day is celebrated on the 13th September to coincide with Dahl’s birthday. This may be of great interest to primary school teachers at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 as well as Key Stage 3 teachers if pupils are studying ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’.
Today marks the relaunch of the Future Morph website, a web-based resource for students, teachers and parents which aims to redefine perceptions of the careers arising from studying science and maths.
Managing Teacher Duties and Visual Literacy Resources.
Art and Design Resources for Primary and Secondary Schools
Feline Welfare Charity offering Free Resources
There are two notable websites that will be of interest to teachers.
AGHHHHH!!!! - Embarrassing cut & paste mistakes in school reports
There are a wealth of online tools and resources to support teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools whether this is focused on independent research or collaborative working.
For the first time since the competition was launched, there are two national joint winners!
This week we've added two resources that ICT and Science teachers may find useful and that have the potential to save a lot of planning and preparation time!
Pick up great KS1 and 2 science diplays, or glean top tips from other Secondary RE teachers with this weeks new listings.
There are more teaching resources being added to our website every week, all free for teachers, including these great lesson plans from Orange and Handwrtiting Help for Kids.
This weeks freebies are useful for teachers of English with some great Design and Technology resources thrown in for good measure.
Excellent Planning Resources for a Wide Range of Subjects and Ages
Ed Balls is ordering a “study” into whether teachers who are members of the British National Party should be allowed to work in schools. “I have always believed that membership of any organisation that espouses racist views is fundamentally incompatible with the values and ethos of the teaching profession,” the Schools Secretary has said. It’s a tricky one this.
As a parent of two primary school age children (years 2 and 5), I have to plead guilty to being a rubbish parent when it comes to organising homework. My 6 year old gets two books a week to read at home with a parent, plus spellings to learn. My eldest is supposed to read in her own time and keep notes of what she has read, do a set of maths homework, spellings, and project work in her log book.
So the headline figure for the Department of Education spending cuts is £359 million. But what exactly is going to be affected? Well the good news is that frontline teaching posts and funding for resources seems to be ringfenced. Bad news is, anyone involved in Diploma delivery will be questioning the strength of the new qualifications given that the new academic diplomas are to be cancelled, and the Department refers to “scaling back support for delivery of Diplomas” as saving them £13.2m.
According to the Telegraph today, the rise in the use of technology is shifting the balance from textbook learning towards more computer use in schools. A survey of school teachers found that they were more likely to invest in the latest technology in the future, than traditional textbooks. But it was also important for children to understand that not all of the information on the internet is accurate, and textbooks should be used, alongside technology, to verify facts.
Over the last few months schools, teachers, parents, teaching unions and ministers have been bouncing between total confusion and horror to gratitude and relief because of the educational reforms proposed by the coalition.
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