Hwb - e-Safety. Hwb - School zone. Learning Wales. We need to appoint around 10 Advisers to work with our regional consortia.
The deadline for to apply is Friday the 25 April 2014 at midday. Potential candidates should make themselves available for interviews on 7 and 8 May 2014. In order to apply please send a CV and covering letter which covers all the requirements set out in the skills and capabilities form below to Laura Cole – email: Laura.cole5@wales.gsi.gov.uk To become an SCCA, you must have a proven track record of expertise in working with secondary schools in the most challenging circumstance, to raise education standards in terms of: improving attainment at relevant Key Stagesaccelerating the progress of pupils facing the challenges of povertyimproving the quality of teaching and learning developing leadership building capacity so that improvement is sustainable.
The contract will be offered for a 2 year period with a possible extension for 1 year. Schools Challenge Cymru. Think Like An Education Secretary: Gove’s 2012 Reading List. Michael Gove is no stranger to literature.
Not only does he constantly quote classic authors in Parliament but in a recent Spectator interview Gove lamented that he’d “had it up to here” with people arguing working class kids should be ignorant of the canon. After all, his self-confessed new favourite book – The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class – claims that in 1920s Britain working-class children read upwards of 70 books a year, so why don’t they do that now? (One can only wonder what might have happened if at the moment he finished his triumphant speech the interviewer had held up a small sign simply saying: “The Internet?”) But that Spectator article got me thinking: What else has Gove been reading this year?
Here’s what I’ve gleaned from speeches and a few other places: 1. In November, Gove namedropped Daniel Willingham during his widely reported “The One With The French Lesbians” speech. 2. 3. And Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Deployment. 5 Must-Know Tips For Deploying iPads In Your Classroom. If you’re looking to deploy iPads in education, you may think that it’s just a matter of expense and storage. Those things are big, but they’re not the biggest problems you’ll face. In fact, this is one of those situations where money is the least of your troubles. I was chatting with an Edudemic reader this week who wanted to know a few tips and tricks about deploying iPads in his classroom this coming school year.
I figured it might be helpful to share the results of this conversation with the rest of the Edudemic readers. After all, this site is all about sharing and learning together. How many devices can use one Apple ID? This is a question that pops up all the time. But long story short, it varies. Basically, you should plan on using free apps for the most part as these are easy to install on any device you have, no matter how many Apple IDs you have / need.
How do I store all these various devices? What if we lose a device? What apps should be installed? Differentiated Instruction. School Restart: Change on Day One. One of the statements which drives me insane is the teacher who tells me that they must, "set the strict rules from the first day, then they can ease off later.
" I always "suggest" that when they do that, they not only lose all the respect of their students, the literally create a room full of enemies, and if they try to "ease off" later it will go as well as... say the last days of the East German or Romanian Ceauşescu regimes. If you want to begin the school year educationally, creating an ecosystem designed around student learning, you surely don't need to begin as a "tough guy," you instead have to throw out all of your "classroom management" strategies and probably almost everything else your school usually does the day kids come back from summer holidays...
Here are ten things to change at the start: 1. 2. So say instead, "welcome, come on in, make yourself comfortable. " 3. 4. It is NOT your space. 5. Automaticity - mindlessness - is an industrial efficiency concept. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 Things in School That Should Be Obsolete. Flickr: Corey Leopold By Greg Stack So much about how and where kids learn has changed over the years, but the physical structure of schools has not.
Looking around most school facilities — even those that aren’t old and crumbling — it’s obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use. 1. COMPUTER LABS. At Northern Beaches Christian School students learn everywhere.