Resources by Teachers TV

Magic Science and Maths

This programme from Teachers TV shows how to use ‘magic tricks’ to engage and excite children in maths and science lessons. Former space scientist and now ‘math magician’, Dr Mark Biddiss, visits the Orion School in North London and demonstrates magic tricks and intriguing science investigations to a group of...

Making Maths Real

Headteacher Maggie Hastie and her team at Weeke Primary School share their enthusiastic approach to making mathematics fun in this Teachers TV video.

A number of teachers in the school have become mathematics specialists and are mentors for other staff members in order to raise standards.

Students...

Making Shadows

From Teachers TV, this video explores how shadow puppets can be used to explore light, shadows and storytelling. A shadowgraph theatre brings characters to life. The light source is a simple angle-poise lamp and the characters in the play are figures mounted on rods. The puppets tell a traditional folk tale about...

Making Statistics Matter

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard who visits Carnaby Street to demonstrate the use of statistical data in the fashion industry. Staff at Vyners School in Hillingdon use fashion to make teaching mode, median and mean relevant to the students in a low ability Year Nine...

Managing GCSE Coursework 1

In this Teachers TV programme, two teachers discuss how they encourage their students to take a creative and independent approach to their GCSE coursework rather than ‘jumping through exam board hoops’.

Lorraine John teaches textiles at Swanmore College of Technology in Hampshire and believes that good...

Managing GCSE Coursework 2

This Teachers TV programme looks at ways teachers can help design and technology students take a less formulaic approach to GCSE coursework.

The two teachers shown in Managing GCSE Coursework 1, textiles teacher...

Managing the Process

As part of the series Progression in Primary Maths, this Teachers TV video looks at the impact of a skills-based curriculum and advanced tracking system on student progress in mathematics.

Sue Courbet, Headteacher at Great Barr Primary School, believes that to improve progression mathematics needs to be...

Materials

This video, from Teachers TV, suggests ways to introduce children to the subject of materials, separating mixtures and irreversible or reversible change. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, it contains these ideas for lessons:

Materials: Lesson and Review

From Teachers TV, this video looks at a Key Stage Two science lesson devised by Year Three class teacher Clare James.

The lesson was inspired by visits the children made to a working water mill. Clare brings the...

Mathematical Development

This Teachers TV video looks at how Troedyrhiw Infant School, a pilot school for the new Foundation phase, is encouraging mathematical development in their nursery and reception classes. Teachers Rebecca Fowler and Claire Lloyd have set out a number of different mathematics activities inside and outside the...