Following on from yesterday’s post about The Little Book of Goodness, here’s another resource linked to food and healthy eating… National School Meals Week is the biggest national healthy eating awareness week about school meals in Britain. It takes place from 9th to 13th November 2009 with the support of the School Food Trust and [...]
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A code of conduct for teachers?
How do you feel about having a code of conduct for teachers? The General Teaching Council says that teachers must “maintain reasonable standards in their own behaviour that enable them to uphold public trust and confidence in the profession”. However, the NASUWT union has started a petition against this, because they feel that it intrudes into teachers’ [...]
Teachers’ TV CPD Training
Teachers’ TV are offering CPD training workshops to support schools in making the most of Teachers TV as a resource for CPD. Tailored to the needs of different practitioners, the sessions are free and provide an interactive and informative learning environment. Download this PDF leaflet to discover more or visit the Teachers TV site [...]
Renewable Energy Mirrors Reflect Better Approach than Wind
By Alistair Owens http://www.keen2learn.co.uk An essential element of our teaching resources in schools has to focus on renewable energy to achieve the goals we need to survive. As the technology advances we are seeing developments in efficiencies of equipment but also some strident considerations. It seems our quest for wind energy could be misplaced. The [...]
Should Video Games Carry Educational Content Advice ?
By Alistair Owens Managing Director keen2learn educational games Food labels are now awash with details of the ingredients, what’s good and bad, high in this, low in that and percentages of daily allowances. Could this extend to video games to show the percentage of educational content contained in the games. The skills of the [...]
"End Of Term School Reports Are History"
Alistair Owens Managing Director keen2learn By the time a parent receives the end of term or year school report a huge chance to help correct a child’s performance may have been lost. A recent survey by BECTA* shows 82% of parents want more information about their child’s progress at school. The survey involved 1000 [...]
Poacher Banker Turned Teacher Gamekeeper In Educational Market
By Alistair Owens Managing Director keen2learn The recent influx of recruits from the banking sector into teaching could be the best thing in educating our children to understand money. Reducing the shortfall in teachers, these recruits may also be ideal candidates to take on the role of business mangers to support or take on a [...]
Education Needs Learning Outside The Classroom.
The UK government is championing what teachers have always said –children learn more and have greater fun in learning when they are taken outside the classroom and allowed to explore the practical application of the theory. It gives relevance to the text book and entices children to seek solutions. The learning time in a classroom [...]
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Tutorhunt is a completely free service both tutors and pupils can use to locate each other. You can search for tutors, by postcode, without registering and view information about their educational background and areas of specalism. To contact them parents need to register, but this is free. So if anyone is thinking of tutoring (and [...]
Effective Help At Home Gains Support
Children love the element of repetition in a game or book. An essential part of the learning curve it’s good to recap and gain confidence from being able to predict what happens next. Being word perfect for the entire script of Shrek II at eight years is a little scary perhaps, but one thing that [...]
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