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Teaching News and Events (20/11/10)
Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans to more than double the number of top head teachers helping struggling schools in England. However, most of England’s best teachers are deterred from becoming heads because of the pressures of targets, according to a survey of their own [...]
Teaching News and Events (2/10/10)
Here are some of this week’s education-related headlines: “No touch” rules discouraging teachers from restraining and comforting children are to be scrapped. Surrey County Council is exploring plans to turn all of its secondary schools into academies. Meanwhile, the Lib Dem executive member for education has written a letter to the Guardian claiming that academies [...]
Parents struggle to help their child with homework
The majority of parents frequently struggle to support their child’s learning outside the classroom according to a new report commissioned by Becta – the Government’s agency for technology in education. The study of 2000 parents and 2000 nine to 13 year olds, found that: There is a desire from parents to become more involved in [...]
Children 'missing out on sleep'
A survey from BBC Newsround has found that many children are kept up late at night by video games, mobile phones and televisions. An article on the BBC News site explains that: “Newsround sent a questionnaire to 1,000 children aged between nine and 11 at schools across the UK. Most said they went to bed at [...]
Are your pupils media smart?
Digital Adwise offers teachers a tool to engage KS1 and KS2 students, and teach them about marketing communications. The interactive online lessons can be used by individuals or small groups on classroom computers. The lessons are tailored to teaching needs and are highly flexible for teachers to modify as they see fit. They aim to [...]
How many books do you read with your class?
The BBC recently reported on some new research which states that a quarter of children read just one book with their teacher each year. This is due to the use of extracts, rather than reading (and enjoying) entire stories. How many books do you read with your class each year? I generally read lots of short [...]
Breastfeeding may help to offset early disadvantages, researchers say
Breastfeeding may be particularly important to the educational and emotional development of children from single-parent and low-income families, new research suggests. Previous studies have reported that the high nutritional content of breast milk can increase a baby’s IQ. Other research has found that breastfed children are at an advantage because their mothers are, on average, [...]
Grandparents are not always the most effective childcarers, researchers say
Many babies who are looked after by grandparents while their mothers are out at work might be better off in nurseries or crèches, a new study suggests. Grandparents can often help to develop a baby’s vocabulary but they may be unable to provide other educational and social experiences that an infant needs, say researchers at [...]
6hrs a day in front of a screen
Television is now less than half of children’s viewing time, in competition with the internet and computer games. More than one in three children told researchers the possession they could least live without was their computer. The overall time spent in front of screens by five to 16-year-olds in Britain was nearly six hours a [...]
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