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Do you have enough teaching resources? Do you sometimes struggle to think of how you can teach a particular aspect of your subject? The internet has a huge number of teaching resources with teachers and experts in the field willing to share their insights and experience, gained over many years of teaching experience.
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China Outperforms Us All China Outperforms Us All
The 2009 Pisa tests - the Programme for International Student Assessment - show Shanghai becoming a world leader in Education as well as in other more corporate fields. Where Europe once led, the East has begun to take over, causing global comment. The White House responded to the last Pisa results with President Barack Obama's observation that the nation which "out-educates us today will out-compete us tomorrow".
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Tutors Not Declaring Lessons
Pete's blog 17-7-12: I met with Laura last week, and we got cracking on categorising disciplines...
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Dyslexia Training for All Teachers?
A new report by the charity Action on Dyslexia suggests that more needs to be done to aid teachers in identifying and teaching children with dyslexia. Writing for the BBC News Education page today (27/06/2012) Judith Burns reports that the charity found ‘Almost two thirds of parents of dyslexic children (61%) said their child had to wait a year for help after being diagnosed.
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Protect yourself from criticism and motivate your students.
Just yesterday I received an email from the parent of one of my students telling me the marks he had received in year end tests. His email sounded disappointed and his comment about next year’s tuition seemed to imply I was to blame for his son’s performance, which incidentally had improved dramatically from when he started with me.
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Lego stage sets a priority? Creative learning gone mad.
Just after the Easter holidays one of my students told me that he hadn’t finished the play they were reading in class as they had been too busy building lego stage sets on the first act. Yep, I was rather mystified too. This was their second lesson, he explained, during which they had built as a group a lego representation of the detailed set in Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’. As a drama student, he had thoroughly enjoyed this task.
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Back & Forth, Back & Forth
Can you believe it? Another call for reform in the field of Education. Michael Gove is being called to comment on a leak from his office in which plans to revert to O Level type qualifications are being discussed.
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All Quiet on the Lessons Front
Pete's blog 10-7-12: Laura was away for three days last week, so I was dealing with all of the admin...
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Singapore goes from Tiger Teaching Methods to the Great Outdoors
BBC news reporter, Rebecca Lim writes that Singapore, the model of exceptional teaching that outperforms every European country (apart from Finland), is becoming aware of the value of ‘creative’ teaching methods.
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