Curiosity Kits: The impact of non-fiction book bags on boys’ reading at home
This 2001 NFER Topic (now PRE-Online) article reports on a small-scale pilot project which was supported by the National Year of Reading (1998–99) and the UK Reading Association, as well as publishers and other businesses. This research involved placing sets of book bags (‘Curiosity Kits’) in four Year 4 classes across the country, and monitoring the home-school reading patterns of these pupils compared with four control classes. The kits, contained in sports bags, comprised at least one
Government Action Plan in Response to Lord Laming
On 12 March 2009, Lord Laming published "The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report". The Government accepted the recommendations contained in the report and stated that they would publish a plan of action at a later date.
This action plan has now been released and outlines the Government's responses to the recommendations including how ‘Central Government' will work with ‘local government' and front line services. These, in turn, include teachers, teaching assistants, school
Inspirations - Building Sights
The resource is a Teachers TV video that records the design and construction of a new classroom for a rural primary school considering the local environment, issues of sustainability and cost in its development.
Taking control: how teachers use research
This 2004 PRE-Online article draws on the findings of a National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) report, to identify the barriers preventing teachers from using research to inform their practice, as well as to highlight some of the ways Local Authorities have helped to remove these. The project also examined the barriers to accessing, engaging with, carrying out and sharing research, as well as evincing why teachers should be interested in using it.
Leading Sustainable Schools
The research document produced for NCSL looks into sustainability in schools, how these schools are being lead in a successful sustainable manner and the barriers that can prevent success. This document attempts to consider the issue of leadership for sustainability within the context of the wide spread changes in the English education system including buildings and grounds, curriculum and assessment, the relationship between schools and their local communities, the merging of education and chi
Developing your school's strategy for community engagement
The resource is a microsite, accessed from the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) website. It provides information and resources to support secondary specialist schools in developing work with their local community, which has recently become a pre-requisite for retaining specialist school status.
KS1/2 Music - Managing Music at KS1
This is a 15 minute Teachers TV programme documenting two Year 1 music lessons, including reflection on and discussion about the lessons between the class teacher and the local authority music advisor.
Promoting Creativity in Initial Teacher Education; a study by tutors and students at Canterbury Chri
The resource is a research paper that forms part of a much wider initiative, the Higher Education Arts and Schools (HEARTS) project, and specifically discusses the development of a collaborative project between the education faculty at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and local schools. Entitled ‘Strangely Familiar’, the researchers aimed to demonstrate the impact of involvement in the Arts on creative teaching and thinking.
Communities in recession: the impact on deprived neighbourhoods
This ‘Round-up’ reviews the evidence from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s body of research and neighbourhood level unemployment data 1985-2009, comparing the social and economic consequences on specific deprived areas of the UK. Comparisons are made with two former recessions (of the early 1980s and 1990s) with the recession of 2008-9. It reports on the extent to which these identified communities shared in, or were excluded from, the benefits of the economic growth of the intervening yea
The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: A guide for practitioners
This resource is a guide to the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) which has been designed to be used by all practitioners who work with children and young people. The CAF itself seeks to give a common approach for use by all children’s services and in all local areas to support with the identification of children’s needs. This resource offers guidance to indicate when a common assessment should be completed, and by whom, along with guidance on how a good assessment can be carried out. The do
How to Make the Most of Teachers TV - CPD Leaders
This Teachers TV video, recorded in three different educational settings, explores how Continuing Professional Development (CPD) leaders, school leaders and local authorities are using Teachers TV to support professional development programmes.
Sci-tutors: Scientific Enquiry: Ideas and Evidence
This article on the Sci-tutors website explores the conceptual barriers to understanding the nature of science or 'how science works'. In general many scientists and science educators do not have a clearly articulated view on the subject and it remains a disputed field. It seems clear that 'doing science' is an activity that all humans engage in to some extent and that it requires curiosity, intellectual honesty and a search for understanding, explanation and application in the contexts of obser
Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Wales
This resource is the review of Local Authority Social Services and Local Safeguarding Children Boards of the arrangements to safeguard and protect children in Wales. The report summarises the main messages and findings from CSSIW’s (Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales) programme to verify the self assessments completed by every local authority and local safeguarding board in Wales.
Evaluation of the Making Good Progress Pilot
The resource is the final evaluation report of the Making Good Progress Pilot. Commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), the pilot was launched in June 2007 to respond to the continuing challenge of raising educational achievement. This is an independent evaluation completed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP which reports on the two year project and assesses the effectiveness of the approaches used by the participating Local Authorities in raising attainment.
LETS: A community development
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
City history and multi-scale spatial master-planning
The UK and Chinese Governments have agreed at the highest level to collaborate through the China-UK Sustainable Development Dialogue on research and knowledge exchange to help ensure that the way we develop our cities will become truly sustainable. As a part of that initiative a group of related networks has been funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, inspired by the Dongtan Eco-city development north of Shanghai.
The specific network which is the subject of th
MLK Commemoration: The Local Perspective
Utah State Senator Ross Romero speaks about the local civil rights perspective at the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
Au bureau de vente de billets
This unit helps you to acquire the basic language to find your way around a French town. You will learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist information office and get information about what to see and do in the local area. You will visit some museums in Avignon and buy a film for your camera. This unit also deals with telling the time and making liaisons in speech. By the end of the unit, you will feel more confident understanding and
2008.02.29-Migration Conference Keynote Address: Bridging the Gap
Conference on Migration, Rights and Identities: Examining the Range of Local and Global Needs.
2008.02.29-Migration Conference Keynote Address: Bridging the Gap
Conference on Migration, Rights and Identities: Examining the Range of Local and Global Needs.
