Teachers TV - The Department for Education Skip to main content GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies Is this page useful? Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful Is there anything wrong with this page? Thank you for your feedback Close Help us improve GOV.UK Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Don’t have an email address? Understanding Science: An overview To understand what science is, just look around you. What do you see? Perhaps your hand on the mouse, a computer screen, papers, ballpoint pens, the family cat, the sun shining through the window …. Science is, in one sense, our knowledge of all that — all the stuff that is in the universe, including the tiniest subatomic particles in a single atom of the metal in your computer’s circuits, the nuclear reactions that formed the immense ball of gas that is our sun, and the complex chemical interactions and electrical fluctuations within your own body that allow you to read and understand these words. Science helps to satisfy the natural curiosity with which we are all born: Why is the sky blue? Science is complex and multi-faceted, but the most important characteristics of science are straightforward: Science is a way of learning about what is in the natural world, how the natural world works, and how the natural world got to be the way it is. Where to begin?
Placement Tests Step 1: Giving the Reading Placement Assessments (Grades K - Middle School) If you are uncertain which assessment to administer, use this guideline: If your student will be: 5 years old this fall, give the Basic Phonics Assessment. 6 years old this fall, give the Advanced Phonics Assessment. 7 years old this fall, give Reading Assessment 1. 8 years old this fall, give Reading Assessment 2 Part A and Part B. 9 years old this fall, give Reading Assessment 3 Part A and Part B. 10 years old this fall, give Reading Assessment 4 Part A and Part B. 11 years old this fall, give Reading Assessment 5 Part A and Part B. 12 years old or higher this fall, give Reading Assessment 6. NOTE: Placement test guidelines were updated and new tests were added/replaced on April 6, 2005. Reading Placement Tests Step 2: Giving the Language Skills Placement Tests (Grades 3 - Middle School only) If you are uncertain which test to administer, use this guideline: Language Skills Placement Tests Writing Tests
101 Report Card Comments to Use Now Four times a year I’m given the monumental task of creating report cards that leave an accurate record of my students’ performance in the classroom without making anybody cry. As a teacher, it is our duty to be truthful, but we also need to be tactful. This week I’ll share with you some of the tried and true report card comments that I have used over the years. I’ll also give you a peek into over forty of my actual report card comments that may give you a few ideas and save you valuable time when you write your own comments this year. Start on a Positive Note I always begin each comment with a general statement letting the parents know how happy I am to be teaching their child, or how much their child is learning and growing: It has truly been a pleasure getting to know your child this quarter. Provide Specific Information Across Several Different Areas Next, include formative evidence that lets the parents know how you view their child as a person, a classmate, and a student. Behavior Math
You Are Your Words - AHD Elementary Teacher Resources, Get The Teaching Resource You Need Getting Organized Organization Tips from Mrs. McDavid I have had many teachers stop by my room to ask how I keep things so well organized. I have had other teachers to ask if I would consider teaching a staff development course at our school to help teachers become better organized. Truly it's the small details that make the biggest impact. Materials You Will Need ~ Back to the Top ~ Purge Unused Materials and Non Essential ItemsAs teachers we tend to hoard materials and supplies that we think might come in handy one day. Organizing the Teacher's DeskThe teacher's desk can become a dumping ground for paperwork, papers that need to be filed, correspondence from the main office, items that need to be read or evaluated, and papers that need to be held for future reference. The first thing you need to do in order to organize your desk is categorize the type of paperwork that crosses your desk: The next step is designating an area to file your paperwork. My personal favorite is the metal desktop sorter.
Superstickers webyarns.com: stories for the web Interactive whiteboards - Collaborative multi touch learning technology for education Enliven teaching and learning with our range of interactive whiteboard systems. Designed to focus attention and provide a platform to boost the interactivity of your lessons, ActivBoard interactive whiteboards and Promethean's teaching software provide the essential building blocks for any digitally connected classroom. Because each classroom is unique, Promethean ActivBoard Systems are available in a wide variety of configurations, enabling you to tailor the right solution to accommodate your needs. Which is the right ActivBoard for you? Precise, cost effective, adaptableActivBoard 100 is a great starting place for those looking for a flexible entry-level interactive whiteboard. Accurate & fast multi-touch capabilityActivBoard Touch combines multi-touch interactivity with Promethean’s unparalleled ActivInspire Professional Edition software, while respecting tight budgets. *Multi-touch capability is dependent upon the ActivBoard, application software and operating system used.
My teaching manifesto for 2013 Manifestos are big around the web at the moment. I'm not adverse to jumping on a bandwagon, so I've written my own. Here is my personal teaching manifesto for 2013: What about you? Do you have any resolutions for the new year? Class Tools Just this morning I had an excellent experience using an exciting interactive site called Class Tools which allows you to create games, activities, and diagrams in Flash (without knowing a thing about Flash!). While covering an eighth grade social studies class, I informed students that they would be creating review games for an upcoming test. They were less than enthusiastic (and those of you who are familiar with the typical enthusiasm level of eighth graders will know that causing them to be even less excited was something of a real feat). Hoping to rescue the moment, I asked if some of them would like to create a game online. Even this was met with grudging acceptance, but they agreed, perhaps considering it at least a momentary reprieve from creating another stale board game with markers and construction paper). Well, in about twenty minutes time, I had some very excited eighth graders on my hands. Click here for full screen version Class Tools is well worth a look!
Teacher Prep and Better Resources: How to Reach Urban Students | Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. Students in urban schools tend to have stereotypes attached to them. Rather than see these students as individual learners, many urban kids and their schools are often thrown into the "lost cause" category. Problems like deteriorating buildings and overcrowding often become too overwhelming for reformers. As always, before we can implement change, we need to fully understand the problem. Are urban schools lost causes? In a 2009 article in the Harvard Political Review, writers Tiffany Wen and Jyoti Jasrasaria discuss the "myths of urban education." Studies have found a correlation between overcrowding and lower math and reading scores. Are we too quick to remove students? Removal from school as a disciplinary measure, while potentially the easiest short-term solution, feeds the school-to-prison cycle that is built primarily in urban schools. With budget cuts a perennial complaint, though, more money for K-12 mentorship initiatives is unlikely. What do you think?
Free Printable Reading Activities To Improve Reading Skills Teaching The Basic Code Establishing The Alphabetic Principle The information and reading activities on this page are designed for young children just learning to read or older children who are struggling with learning to read.<br> This page deals with basic code, the forty-two sounds in the English language and their most probable spellings. As mentioned on the Teaching Reading page, by basic code we mean when the letters of the alphabet are used individually to represent the sounds in a word. Kids need to learn the basic alphabetic code first before moving on to the more difficult advanced code. The following words contain only basic code: run, hat, stop, dog, milk, lost In comparison, these words contain advanced code: boat, cow, great, shop Teaching children to develop good decoding skills through reading activities using basic code words will establish the alphabetic principle and lay a foundation for decoding more difficult texts in the future. Words are made up of sounds. CVC Activity