Using mentors’ metacognitive skills to increase the knowledge base in teacher training of how teac
This project explored the strategy of adding voice files to word documents - primarily lesson plans and schemes of work - in an initial teacher training context. The technique is called Voice over Text (VoT). The purpose was to reveal the thinking behind teaching processes; in this case there was an emphasis on planning. The use of Voice over Text delivered promising early results in that trainees were able to access the thinking of experienced practitioners which previously had been invisible
Quantitative research: a scoping study for the Learning and Skills Research Centre (Building effecti
This publication has been written in order to address the perceived need to encourage increased use of numerical data and statistical methods by people concerned with planning and designing research in post-16 education and training.
KS1/2 MFL – Sharing Skills – Secondary with Primary
This Teachers TV video shows how Secondary and Primary teachers in Mansfield are sharing skills and knowledge to deliver MFL at KS2.
The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills
The Education and Inspections Act 2006, which established the new Ofsted, set out three overriding considerations for Ofsted
1) to promote improvement in the public services they inspect or regulate
2) to ensure that these services focus on the interests of the children, parents, adult learners and employers who use them
3) to see that these services are efficient and effective
This is the first annual report undertaken within Ofsted's wider remit, and is intended to establish some form of b
GTIP: Extending Writing Skills
Extracts from a Theory into Practice Publication of the Geographical Association, Extending Writing Skills is concerned with written communication and the ways in which writing activities in the geography classroom can assist the learning process
Teachers TV Skills and Work Week
Teachers TV has a week of programmes, 4 - 10 February, looking at what young people can gain from work experience, careers education and voluntary work.
Developing Children’s Skills in Mathematical Explanation
This is an article, written in 2001, which explores the extent to which it may be possible to teach, explicitly, the skills of explanation to primary pupils. It considers the impact of direct teaching on the pupils’ written mathematical work.
Developing thinking skills in the primary classroom
This paper presents the background to the keynote address given at the ‘Register of Primary Research Seminar Conference’ in Worcester U.K. October 2001. It gives a succinct review of the literature on developing thinking skills in the classroom and identifies "powerful pedagogical strategies" to investigate and develop effective teaching and learning. There is then a review of a number of classroom approaches. These have been trialled in, and developed for, both primary and secondary classro
Building thinking skills in thinking classrooms ACTS (Activating Children’s Thinking Skills) in No
This research briefing is of a project carried out as part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme based at the Institute of Education, University of London. ACTS (Activating Children’s Thinking Skills) was used as the thinking framework. The project builds on a substantial earlier review of the research literature on developing thinking skills.
Working with 134 teachers of 8-11 year old pupils in Northern Ireland schools, lessons were designed and taught to teach thinking skills inte
citizED: Thinking Skills in the Citizenship Classroom
A set of thinking skills posters on the citizED website, designed by a secondary teacher to be used by pupils to help extend their citizenship skills. The posters come with ideas for use, including lesson plans, schemes of work and examples of pupil work.
Q16: the professional skills tests in numeracy, literacy and information and communications technolo
From September 2008, all relevant skills tests must be successfully completed by trainees before QTS can be awarded. The TDA has put together the attached text to provide some background to the tests, and information about recent changes to the format, and disability arrangements.
Effective Teaching of Inference Skills for Reading
This is a literature review written by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). The review focuses on four main questions: Are there different skills within inference?; How can pupils be best taught to use inference skills?; What strategies are most effective in teaching inference skills?; and What does progression in inference and deduction look like? The key finding of the report states that the "abili
The impact of a thinking skills approach (CAME) on students’ mathematical ability
This is a research digest from the DCSF Research Informed Practice Site (TRIPS). The article is a précis of the paper entitled ‘Fostering cognitive development through the context of mathematics: Results of the CAME project’ published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (2007). It reports the findings of an intervention project, Cognitive Acceleration in Mathematics (CAME), initiated in 1993. The aim of the project was to investigate whether the CAME approach would accelerate the cognitiv
TDA Standards case study: Professional development aspects of the Standards for the award of QTS
A case study charting the experiences of trainees on a secondary PGCE programme, including the ways in which the provider tailored provision to support trainees’ professional development.
Evaluation of Skills for Work pilot courses: Final Report
This is a final report on the evaluation of Skills for Work Pilot courses in Scotland. The aim of the resource is to report on the findings from research carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research examining the piloting of Skills for Work (SfW) courses over two years. Skills for Work (SfW) courses were introduced via a two year pilot to help young people to develop skills and knowledge in a broad vocational area, core skills, an understanding of the workplace, positive attit
The development of pupils' reading comprehension skills during the first six school years
This paper is a summary of the author’s research into children’s development of comprehension skills across the first six years of their schooling in Finland. It begins with a very helpful overview of research which considers the nature of comprehension and presents some of the findings of this longitudinal study of primary school children from a baseline assessment conducted when they began first grade, aged 6 or 7 years and tested at different times during the next five years.
TDA Standards Case Study: Support for QTS Skills Tests
A case study charting the experiences of trainees on initial teacher training programmes, including the ways in which the provider tailored provision to support trainees in passing the professional skills tests.
ESOL in the post-compulsory learning and skills sector: an evaluation
This Ofsted survey evaluates the quality of provision of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) offered in the post-compulsory learning and skills sector and reports on the programmes available to learners. It is the outcome of visits between September 2007 and March 2008 to 14 further education (FE) colleges, eight adult and community learning providers, five independent work-based learning providers, and one learndirect provider. In addition, the survey draws on the results of a survey
St Mary's University Handout 2 - Audit of Occupational Skills for Teaching the Diploma
St Mary's University Handout 2 - Audit of Occupational Skills for Teaching the Diploma
Sci-tutors: Scientific enquiry: Investigative Skills & Ideas and Evidence
Two units from the Sci-tutors site that deal with misconceptions in the teaching of science
