The current system has many negative consequences on the teaching and
learning in our primary classrooms and tells parents very little about how their local schools perform.
2) Create some for - credit classes for older students and restructure the daily schedule so that qualified students who have demonstrated mastery of curriculum being taught to younger students can be
used in the primary classroom (with supervision) as coaches during part of the day 2 or 3 times a week.
So instead of a teacher being quite isolated, let's
say in a primary classroom all day, doing their own thing with their students, they would work with other teachers and other students so that they were always working collaboratively.
After Teacher published an article about the results of a study suggesting standing desks lead to increased student engagement, one of our readers got in touch to share a strategy that's made a
difference in her primary classroom.
I have mixed up all the original Thinking Hat colours and done away with black and white as I had teachers who felt these were not
appropriate in a primary classroom and relaunched it all as Thinking Scarves - I hope you like the changes and leave me a nice comment below!
The purpose of the Teacher Development Fund is to support the delivery of effective arts - based teaching and learning
opportunities in the primary classroom and to embed learning through the arts in the curriculum.
The aim of Literacy Alive courses is to bring the core elements of reading and writing to
life in the primary classroom, encompassing storytelling, role play, paired and group work, as well as individual study.
Ensuring that the Health and Safety guidance we give to schools is comprehensive, compliant with all statutory regulations and easily
implemented in the primary classroom is of paramount importance to us.
In order to bring this to life, Eric showed me various photographs of «blended learning» approaches, with teachers rotating pupils through different work
stations in a primary classroom, some of which included interactive maths and spelling activities, some that used specific apps to express ideas or communicate understanding, and some that involved reading comprehension.
To challenge these preservice teachers to engage with the DLTs, I designed the assessment components of the unit to focus on the use of these learning technologies to teach
mathematics in a primary classroom context, as in Teo, Lee, and Chai (2007).
About Blog A blog by Cara Carroll engaging and effective activities to
use in primary classroom and sharing those ideas on little blogs.