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PGCE Survival Guide

PGCE Survival Guide

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 from recent PGCE graduates and more experienced teachers covering every element of teacher training, from your first day at university, through the hectic world of placements (with lots of valuable teaching tips) to finding a job- we have it all covered!

You won’t find countless chapters about educational theory – just real tips and advice from real teachers that have been selected to help you during your teacher training.”

I mentioned the #pgcetips Twitter tag on Teaching News a few weeks ago. The contributions to this tag have been collated and added to the book too. In fact, the book has over 250 super useful hints and tips from the education community on twitter!

I wish that there was a book like this when I started my teacher training course many years ago! Tim Handley (and the many other contributors) have done a wonderful job of creating an extremely valuable resource for all teachers, so download a free copy of the book or buy a paper copy!

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Summer Discoveries 2

Summer Discoveries 2

Here is another collection of interesting education-related news, links and resources that I’ve discovered during my summer break.

Ideas to Inspire

I’ve added 5 new collaborative presentations to Ideas to Inspire over the past week or two. These have included ‘Ways to get to know your new class‘, ‘Ways to use Google Search in the classroom‘ and ‘Best Non-Tech Strategies and Techniques‘. The total number of ideas on ‘Ideas to Inspire‘ now exceeds 1200 – all of them contributed by teachers and educators from around the world. Thanks to Tom Barrett and David Mitchell for starting the new presentations.

#twittereducator

Peter Richardson has set up a simple way for teachers to find other educators on Twitter. Simply visit Blastfollow and enter the hashtag #twittereducator. You will then be able to follow a number of other teachers who have been recommended on Twitter. If you’re already on Twitter, why not send a tweet recommending other educators and add the hashtag #twittereducator to add them to the list? Find out more on Peter’s blog.

BrainPOP’s Space resources

Our new Space Teaching Theme was launched this week and it has attracted lots of positive feedback. By coincidence, BrainPOP have just revealed a new Space themed page too – Starship Brainpop. Their site has links to all of their space themed movies (some are free and some require a subscription) and their blog has lots of space themed resources too including activity sheets and an Astronaut Moby!

Other links:

Have you discovered anything interesting or exciting during your break?

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Summer Discoveries 1

Summer Discoveries 1

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 have been sharing what happened via their blogs and Twitter accounts. Here are some ways to follow the event it you couldn’t go:

PGCE Tips:

Tom Henzley is aiming to create a free e-book containing tips for students starting a PGCE course. The book will contain contributions from people who post messages on Twitter using the hashtag #pgcetips. Here are some of the contributions so far:

  • Be organised. Listen to and observe everything. Keep all bits of paper! (from @adambutterworth)
  • Listen to advice, offer to help, don’t expect to be perfect – your mentor won’t expect you to be! (from @zaragozalass)
  • Innovate… learn from school placements and write out your idea of what makes a good teacher… pick the best bits from others (from @dan_bowen)

Take a look at the other contributions by searching Twitter for #pgcetips and add some ideas of your own too. Lots of the ideas will be useful for practising teachers… not just PGCE students!

Other useful sites I’ve found:

Have you discovered any useful news / resources during the past few weeks?

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This week’s Education News (17/7/10)

This week’s Education News (17/7/10)

Here is another collection of links to the latest education news stories:


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This week’s Education News (10/7/10)

This week’s Education News (10/7/10)

It’s been another busy week with lots going on in education. Here are links to some of the headlines:


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ICT is important

ICT is important

Naace, ‘the professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of ICT’, has produced a statement entitled ‘A Vision for ICT in Education’. This statement was produced with a number of other delegates and was addressed to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education.

www.naace.co.uk

It explain’s Naace’s view that ICT is important as a tool for learning. You can read the full statement below:

How do you feel about this message?

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This week’s Education News (3/7/10)

This week’s Education News (3/7/10)

This post contains links to this week’s education related news stories:


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This week’s Education News (26/6/10)

This week’s Education News (26/6/10)

Here’s a round-up of this week’s education-related news stories:


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  • The first #ukedchat event took place with teachers on Twitter sharing their ideas. This week’s question was ‘How can we get more teachers to use technology effectively in their teaching?‘. An archive of the responses can be found in this document. Well done to @colport for organising the event. If you’re on Twitter, join in every Thursday at 8pm by following the #ukedchat tag.
  • Bev Evans wrote a wonderful post about linking ICT and the outdoor curriculum… it’s well worth reading to get some ideas for the last few weeks of the summer term.

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This week’s Education News (19/6/10)

This week’s Education News (19/6/10)

Here is a summary of this week’s education news:

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This week’s Education News (12/06/10)

This week’s Education News (12/06/10)

Here is this week’s collection of education news stories:

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