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Teach Food Technology: Mentor Guide
This guide was intended for use by mentors who are supporting teachers being trained as part of the Teach Food Technology programme. The guide prepares them to work with their nominated mentee and plan a mentoring day. The contents of the guide may also be useful for all those involved in mentoring a new food...
The Teachers TV videos in this collection are those which have been suggested as part of the pre-course learning for the Food Technology in the Curriculum training course – part of the Teach Food technology national programme.
The films look at how schools have linked food technology at Key Stage Three with...
Teacher Guidance with Additional Notes for EAL Learners
These guidance notes, from the National Strategies, are designed to help teachers address aspects of the science curriculum for students whose first language is not English. The guides provide strategies to ensure progression to level six and beyond, explaining clearly what characteristics and skills the students...
One aim of the National Strategies was to improve and strengthen the mathematical subject knowledge of teachers. To this end a wide range of materials, in the form of self-study units for teachers, were produced to supplement Continuing Professional Development courses.
The materials included:
*Algebra...
Teachers TV: Mathematics
In this Teachers TV video, mathematics teacher Daniel Gadd links ideas studied in his lessons to the use of mathematics in the world of work, helping students to understand how their learning relates to the real world. The class at the Graham School, Scarborough, focuses on how logistic managers use network...
Three of these booklets, Reasoning about numbers, Shape activities and Calculator activities were produced for schools that were taking part in the National Numeracy Strategy before it was launched nationwide for all schools. They all contained ideas and activities that supplemented the number-heavy curriculum...
These materials exemplify the ideas and approaches adopted in the Standards Unit pilot. To get best value from them, we recommend that you use them in association with the guidance and other materials in the resource. The following are some specific hints and guidance:
- These sessions are offered as...
Teaching and Learning Mathematics Through ICT
This collection of resources from the National Strategies includes resources for activities and lessons that make effective use of ICT in teaching and learning secondary mathematics. The resources include the use of spreadsheets, programs, dynamic geometry software, graph plotting software, video and internet...
Teaching children to calculate mentally
This publication has been adapted from Teaching mental calculation strategies – guidance for teachers at Key Stages One and Two...
The 1998 National Curriculum gave rise to new emphases in both algebra and geometry and to the place of using ICT to develop mathematical thinking. These resources from the National Strategies were developed to tackle these aspects of the curriculum.
The approaches described in the booklet [b]Developing...