14 August 2010
The PGCE Survival Guide is a new free e-book created to support those who are about to start PGCE teacher-training courses. However, it is such a fantastic resource that it could be useful for all teachers. The PGCE guide site explains more about the book: “It’s full of useful and practical, hints, tips and advice [...]
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02 August 2010
Teaching Themes – Space This month’s Teaching Theme has now been released and all of the ideas and resources are about Space! The theme contains: Ideas for lessons and classroom activities, Resources to use for your class displays (with some wonderful new space cartoons), Educational videos to watch in your lessons, Examples of existing space-themed [...]
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31 July 2010
Here are some of the interesting education-related things that I’ve found during my summer break so far: Google Teacher Academy UK The first Google Teacher Academy UK event took place this week and it sounded like an amazing experience for those who were able to attend. Even if you couldn’t make it, lots of people [...]
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23 July 2010
I have now started my summer break from school so I will also be taking a break from the daily postings on Teaching News. There will still be occasional updates over the next few weeks, but regular posts will not resume until September. Have a wonderful summer break! Mark Image – Some Day My Prints [...]
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22 July 2010
Alan McKinney from SoundScalpel has kindly contributed a large collection of sound effects to Teaching Ideas. You can download these sounds and use them in your classroom for: Adding atmosphere to lessons, Assemblies, School performances, Adding sound to children’s ICT / multimedia work, Addition to a school website / VLE. www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/dramasoundeffects.htm I’ve also recently discovered www.freesfx.co.uk which [...]
Posted in Music, Teaching Ideas, Technology0 Comments
20 July 2010
Bristol Zoo Gardens has been awarded a badge of recognition for its outstanding education provision. The Zoo has been given the Government-developed ‘Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge’. The Quality Badge is awarded to organisations which have pledged to sustain good-quality learning outside the classroom and have met certain criteria. It makes it easier for teaching professionals to organise [...]
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19 July 2010
The Sorrell Foundation is launching the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB to give pupils and their teachers an exciting new resource to inform and stimulate knowledge and debate about design. The YOUNGDESIGNCLUB is free to UK primary and secondary schools, to run in lunch breaks or as an after-school activity. Each meeting will focus on a piece of design [...]
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18 July 2010
Simon Haughton has set up a number of collaborative documents which are building into very useful resources. The first is a collection of ideas for creative curriculum topics which are perfect for schools who are planning for the next academic year. http://bit.ly/curriculumtopics The second is a list of activities that children can try online during [...]
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18 July 2010
If your school or community group is doing something practical to conserve biodiversity, why not make a short news report about it and enter a competition from the Natural History Museum? The first prize is £500 for the winning group in each age category to visit to a local biodiversity site of special interest and [...]
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17 July 2010
Here is another collection of links to the latest education news stories: SATs for 11 year olds have too high a margin of error to be used to compare schools in league tables, according to the NUT and ATL, who have urged the government to scrap the tests for Year 6 pupils. The leader of [...]
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