August 17, 2015
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The Educators To start you thinking about education you could find this series of radio programmes on the BBC website at this link: The Educators In each of the eight programmes Sarah Montague interviewed a contemporary educator about their ideas. … Continue reading
August 7, 2015
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If you are starting the FDLT course in September you might like to read some advice from some of the students who have been on the course. You can find this above on the page called ‘Advice from students to … Continue reading
May 3, 2015
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From May the 11th you can sign up to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called Let’s Teach Computing. Here are the details: Details Let’s Teach Computing is a Department for Education funded MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). It is … Continue reading
April 30, 2015
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Over the last few weeks I have been teaching a session about using images to support learning and teaching to FDLT Y1. we have explored searching for images online and issues of safety, copyrightt and citation / referencing. One useful … Continue reading
March 26, 2015
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Next Monday (30th March) there is a programme on Radio 4 called ‘Minecraft: more than a game’. Its on at 11am and than available on iplayer and on Box of Broadcasts if you a university student. In this programme the … Continue reading
March 9, 2015
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I was so pleased to be sent this photo of some of our FDLT graduates from last month. The photo shows Jo, Tracey, Karen and Victoria, who are all now on the BALT course. Tracey called this photo ‘Look how … Continue reading
March 4, 2015
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You might have heard on BBC TV and radio lots of references to their campaign to encourage creativity called Get Creative! You can browse the website here. In the early weeks of this campaign there have been some programmes focusing … Continue reading
February 23, 2015
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Last week creativity was in the news as the Warwick Commission launched their report ‘Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth’ and the BBC launched their ‘Get Creative’ celenration of the arts, culture and creativity across the UK. ‘Enriching Britain: Culture, … Continue reading
February 19, 2015
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Last Sunday many of attended the School of Education graduation ceremony at the Derngate in Northampton. As tutors we are lucky to sit on the stage and watch as our students receive their FDLT and BALT awards. This is such … Continue reading
February 16, 2015
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Teaching assistants from Leicestershire, Northants and Derby took part in a great day of workshops on Friday 13th February at Beauchamp College, Oadby. The morning workshop led by Eva Cartwright, Principal of the Teaching Assistant College, focused on creative strategies … Continue reading