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Useful
Links For Teaching
General
Course-related Teaching
Practice Resources
Individuals Employment
A
little bit of everything...
National Curriculum
- Like the book, but more!
National Literacy Strategy - The NLS online, with planning sheets and resources.
National Numeracy Strategy - The NNS online, same as above!
DfES - if you don't know
what it is by now, go find out! Includes SATs info on every school in country.
Standards - standards
and effectiveness site of the DfES.
Trainee Teacher
- there are more of us out there! fantastic site just for us, resources, advice
and tips. Teachernet
- Set up by the DfES, for teachers. Links to lesson plans plus good info in general
on teaching Teachers.net
- a U.S. site, so while not related to our NC it's still full of lesson plans,
student teaching chatboard, printable resources and much more.
Ofsted - Office for Standards
in Education. Reports
on schools and publications.
TES - Times Educational Supplement
online. Advice, jobs, news, resources, forums...
EducationGuardian
- articles relating to all aspects of teaching, with careers, students, job fair,
higher education sections etc.
TTA - the Teacher Training
Agency Teacher
Support - support network with advice and information. Course-related
QTS tests (TTA) - go here to find downloadable practice tests, read up about
them and then go here to register for the
real ones! (only for people qualifying this academic year.) QCA
publications - where to search for and order all those booklets and information
your lecturers talk about. EPPI-Centre
- reviews educational research, so you can check the usefulness of what you're
studying! Online
Education Courses / Online College Education - Have you found this site looking
to be a student, but are not one yet? Online Education Search dot org is a search
engine that will help you search for online education courses to start your online
college education.
Teaching
Practice Where?
Warwickshire School Map - Placed in a Warwickshire school? Find it and its
contact details.
Schoolsnet - "The UK's most authoritative guide to UK schools is now
even easier to use."
A
brief overview
Education Guardian Interactive Guide - provides the latest official information
on primary schools in England. You can view raw data on how the schools performed,
see how they have improved, or otherwise against previous results (for all England's
schools)
How
do I get there?
Travel Coventry / West Midlands - bus timetables and routes for Cov and West
Midlands. StageCoach
buses - timetables for its Warwickshire routes, can also select other areas
of the country. Resources
/ Activities / Lessons
BYTEachers - Page of
the Association of Teaching Websites, all its members (who all have links on the
site) have sites that contain high quality resources and materials for FREE, are
built and maintained by teachers, and are comprehensive and user friendly.
Positively Mad -
Personal Development and Accelerated Learning
information, skills and strategies.
National Grid for Learning
- gateway to educational resources on the internet.
Curriculum Online
- The definitive catalogue for digital learning resources linked to the NC.
Infant Resources
- Activity ideas and worksheets for Foundation/KS1
pupils. A clear and simple website for Infant teachers.
abcteach - 5000+
free printable pages and worksheets, and reports, activities and teaching extras.
Quality
Teaching Resources - free worksheets and downloads
Worksheet factory
- buy or design or download for free! many possibilities, a good resource.
Educate
The Children - Zones for kids, parents and teachers. Jobs, competitions and
more. Teaching
Ideas - came up top in a Google search for resources, contains all subjects
including Early Years, Time Fillers and Foreign Languages. Has good links to other
teaching sites.
More Teaching Ideas
- extra to the previous site, ideas for assemblies, displays, classroom management,
PSHE, Seasonal ideas and Special Needs.
Thinking Things
from Snaith Primary - lots of history and geography topics + other interactive
resources. Top
Marks - Lots of subjects, particularly maths resources - activities and
worksheet generators. recommended by BYTEachers (see above).
Superkids Maths Worksheet Generator
- select the type of problem, the maximum and minimum numbers to be used in the
problems, then create!
Welcome to the Web
- good interactive training on how to use the internet, for kids and adults.
School
Assemblies and
Assemblies - guess
what these two have ideas for?!
Translation
- translate phrases, words and web pages in
English, French, German, Danish, Spanish, Finnish, Czech & Italian
Classics
for young people - A growing number of children's literature classics are
out of copyright, and are among the books available in full-text on the Internet.
Earth and Sky - Science
site based on a US radio show for kids. 'Frequently asked questions' area is particularly
good for fact-finding. Individual
Children
Pages for possible help, advice and information on conditions you may
not have been taught about yet. Though it's always best to talk to your school
about the individual cases, there's no harm in doing your own research. Dyslexia
Dyslexia Surrey - advertising a method of coping with dyslexia (not just available
in Surrey) but also has quite interesting explanations
under 'more info.' Worth a look. British
Dyslexia Association - advice, information, help for families, professionals
and dyslexic individuals. The
Dyslexia Institute - Information about dyslexia services and associated training,
teaching and publication details. Autistic
Spectrum Disorders
Autism
UK - information, messageboards, articles and resources.
Supporting
Children with an ASD - pdf format slideshow, with useful suggested strategies
and information.
ASD - information
for teachers - links, related publications, descriptions and teaching strategies.
National Autistic Society
- information on Autism and Asperger Syndrome, and support and services available
in the UK, including information for educational
professionals. Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder Association - articles, personal stories, interviews
with professionals.
50 classroom
tips - dealing with AD/HD. Tourette's
Syndrome
Tourette's Syndrome - also information on other conditions, articles, handouts
and classroom tips. Hearing
Impaired
Royal National
Institute for the Deaf - good source of information and intro to how to fingerspell
and sign.
British Sign Language - shows moving pictures for basic signs.
Deaf Sign - BSL resources,
translators, information and games.
Employment
ETeach
- UK's number one educational recruitment website
ETeach's student
and NQT page - look through all of England's LEAs, their jobs and the packages
they offer NQTs.
TES
jobs - "more current teaching jobs than any other UK publication
or website"
For unbiased
money tips and advice you could try www.moneyexpertise.co.uk,
which includes a section on student finance.
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