National Teaching Assistant Day takes place on Friday 16th September 2022. We wish all our students and graduates a happy national TAs’ day!  Here’s a blog post that Abbie Deeming, FDLT course leader, wrote for National TAs’ Day 2022.

Some reminders about the first day on the FDLT course. Where should I come to on the first day? Each group will be going to their venue for the first day of the course in week beginning September 12th: Tuesday … Continue reading →

When you begin to take part in discussion about your setting and begin to write assignments you will need some basic information about your school to provide contextual background. It would be useful if you could collect this information and … Continue reading →

You might wish to create a image of yourself that you can use instead of your photo in profile pictures on NILE and other tools that we use. Here are many ways of doing this. Here are two suggestions: Face.co … Continue reading →

Before you start the FDLT course we’d like you to introduce yourself to the group on this Padlet. There is no need to have a Padlet account of your own to post onto the Padlet. All you need to do … Continue reading →

We shared this reading list with you in July, here is a reminder of it.

Throughout the FDLT and BALT courses you will often need to read and refer to curriculum documents.  These are some of the key documents: For Early Years: This is a link to the page where you can access and download the Statutory … Continue reading →

As you begin university you will need to consider where you are going to study at home and begin to prepare this space so that you are ready to use it from the beginning of September.   There are some … Continue reading →

Here are some links to resources that you might find interesting. You can explore the links on this Padlet but you cannot post on to it yourself. 

As students about to start studying in Higher Education it is useful for you to know about people who work in the field of education. A useful way of beginning this is to listen to radio programmes such as The … Continue reading →