January 23, 2015
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What is TeachMeet? Come along to an evening of sharing teaching and learning ideas. We’ll have mini presentations on creative classroom activities across the curriculum and there will be lots of ideas you can start using straight away. Everyone is welcome … Continue reading
January 13, 2015
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The next meeting of the Book Group will be on Monday 26th January at 17.30 in S036. Light refreshments will be provided. The book to be discussed will be ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime’ by Mark Haddon. … Continue reading
January 11, 2015
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#Nuture1415 is a social media based review of 2014 written by people involved in education. @ChocoTzar introduces it here: “So, it begins. Although to be fair I think others have beaten me to the blog. This is the third year … Continue reading
December 3, 2014
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Over the last few weeks we have been exploring digital technology with FDLT Y2 students. We were fortunate to have support from Rico Lowson and Sophie Burrows from the organisation Into Film. In the first session Rico and Sophie introduced … Continue reading
November 7, 2014
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You might have noticed some headlines in the media last week about the use of ‘lavish praise’ in learning and teaching. This has come from the report published by The Sutton Trust called ‘What makes great teaching?’ You can read … Continue reading
October 28, 2014
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Hello! I’m Lisa Shepherd and I am one of the tutors on the FDLT course. I will be working with year 2 groups in Oadby and at the University on completing the small scale school based research projects. I have … Continue reading
January 18, 2014
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Richard Rose, Professor of Inclusive Education and Director of the Centre for Education and Research (CESNER) at the University of Northampton, has begun writing a blog. At present he is teaching in Bangalore in India. Richard is working with teachers … Continue reading
May 1, 2013
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Have you seen this article published in the education section of the Guardian today (1st May)? ‘State schools employ one teaching assistant for every two teachers’. The figures are taken from the DfE’s annual workforce survey of teacher and school … Continue reading