Ensuring a High Quality, Localised Infrastructure for the CPD of Maths Teachers
The purpose of the study, produced by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) was to inform the establishment of the planned National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), but it is also hoped that this report of the study will be viewed as a useful contribution to the on-going debate about…
Ensuring Effective CPD for Teachers of Mathematics in Primary Schools
A policy report produced by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education which argues that the key issues for the future of primary mathematics learning and teaching can only be addressed in primary schools if there is suitable provision of continuing professional development (CPD). In view of this, ACME commissioned a study into…
Creative Encounters: Feasibility Study for a Touring Exhibition to Promote Creative Learning in Science
Published by the Wellcome Trust in 2007, this report is the product of a feasibility study for a touring exhibition to promote creative learning in science. The study involved: • Evaluating the Trust's objectives for such an exhibition and making recommendations on the feasibility of meeting these objectives (and advising…
Believers, Seekers and Sceptics: What Teachers Think about CPD
In 2005 the Wellcome Trust commissioned this survey of teachers and managers in state maintained schools in England, focusing on three main aspects of continuing professional development (CPD): • What do different types of teacher want from CPD? • What are the benefits of CPD, and for whom? • What, if anything,…
Primary Science in the UK: a Scoping Study
The Wellcome Trust commissioned this research in May 2004. The Graduate School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast and the Science Department of St Mary’s University College Belfast carried out the work. The Wellcome Trust was seeking to establish an overview of the current status of primary science in the UK…
Primary Science Survey Report
This report presents the findings of an online survey during July 2011 for The Wellcome Trust. The survey asked primary school teachers for their views on the status of primary science, the opportunities available to their students and themselves as professionals, and how these things may have changed since the removal of SATs in…
Improving the Assessment of Practical Work in School Science
This report, published in October 2012, reviews how practical work in science is currently assessed in England by the three main awarding bodies (AQA, Edexcel and OCR) for GCSE, A level and for certain other qualifications. Comparisons are also made with the way in which practical work is assessed across a range of other subjects…
The Continuum of Design Education for Engineering
This booklet examines the development of engineering expertise and makes recommendations on ways to harness, encourage, facilitate and reward it. Covering all Key Stages from Foundation Stage to post-16 and higher education, the booklet states the case for design and technology in schools to encourage an understanding of engineering,…
Continuing Professional Development for Teacher of Mathematics
Provided by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), this resource was written in 2002. It includes recommendations on the steps to be taken, at that time, to raise the quality of mathematical provision in schools. Concerns regarding the poor uptake of students continuing to study mathematics at Post 16, the reduced…
Learning Outdoors
This programme from Teachers TV shows how one school uses the school grounds as a valuable resource for learning across the primary curriculum, especially in numeracy. Pip Mann a Year Three teacher at Hook Primary School in Goole passionately believes in the benefits of learning outdoors. Using the outside space within the school…
Data Handling in the Classroom
In this Teachers TV programme, a Year Two teacher overcome her own fear of ICT while improving her teaching of data handling at Key Stage One by using the advice of a fellow teacher. Data handling is often conducted using traditional pen and paper methods in the classroom, but ICT offers an effective and simple way to teach data…
Drama 4 Learning - KS1
This Teachers TV programme shows how one teacher incorporates drama into a mathematics lesson on number at reception and Key Stage One. Terri English at Great Hockham School in Norfolk uses the technique of "Teacher In Role" playing the part of a café owner to make her lesson more engaging for the children, stimulating…
Independent Learning - KS1 Maths
In this Teachers TV programme, two education experts Malcolm Reed and Alison Fletcher analyse a primary mathematics lesson for a mixed ability class, looking at the teacher's techniques for encouraging independent learning. Teacher Pritti Poole encourages the use of mathematical vocabulary as she introduces her lesson on…
Teaching and Learning - Algebra and Geometry
The Royal Society provide these resources which offer an insight into reviews, which took place in the mid 1990s and early 2000s, to investigate the teaching and learning of algebra and geometry. Both reviews took place at a time of considerable discussion over developments in mathematics, both at home and at international level. Teaching…
Researching Effective CPD in Mathematics Education
The Researching Effective CPD in Mathematics Education (RECME) project was set up under the umbrella of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in England, who provide these resources. The project's aim was to provide advice, guidance and recommendations to be used by NCETM to inform future…
Key Understandings in Mathematics Learning
These resources are provided by the Nuffield Foundation who, in 2007, commissioned a team from the University of Oxford to review the available research literature on how children learn mathematics. The resulting review is presented in a series of eight papers. Paper 1 Overview - summarises findings from detailed analysis of a…
Deep Progress in Mathematics: the Improving Attainment in Mathematics Project
This resource, provided by Anne Watson, Els De Geest and Stephanie Prestage, describes how a group of ten teachers taught low attaining groups in secondary school, and what features were seen to be important. The teachers had a shared commitment to improving the attainment of their lowest attaining students by building on the belief…
Numeracy and Literacy
This Teachers TV programme focuses on two lessons where teachers use ICT to aid the teaching of mathematics at Key Stage Two and Literacy in a reception class. A primary teacher in Kent develops a lesson using free Interactive Teaching Programmes from the National Strategy in her work on pentagons and diagonals. Working alongside…
"Goodbye SATs... Hello Assessment" - Programme 2
In this Teachers TV programme, mathematics consultant Val Worcester joins Melanie Grant and Vanessa Clarke from Aston Tower, Birmingham as they reflect on the assessment activities used in their Key Stage One classes. The challenge for teachers in Key Stage One assessment is to design activities that will yield evidence about…
"Goodbye SATs... Hello Assessment" - Programme 1
This programme from Teachers TV looks at how teachers assess progress. Year Two teachers, Melanie Grant and Vanessa Clarke are anxious about how they can accurately build up a picture of children's skills at the end of Key Stage One. They work with mathematics consultant, Val Worcester, to design active assessment opportunities.…
Reception 2
In this programme from Teachers TV a panel of early years experts analyse the practice at Berridge Infant School and talk about the balance between child-led and adult initiated play. Sheila Sage, primary adviser with responsibility for early years in Worcestershire, is joined by Ged Cotton, an infant school head teacher from…
Reception 1
This programme from Teachers TV follows teachers Johanna Moore and Kristabel Harwood from Berridge Infant School, a multicultural school in Nottingham. They each choose a target child to focus on over the day, Jade and Shoaib. Throughout the day they create a balance between teacher-led and child-initiated learning in their classes…
Learning with Scarlet: Lesson Review
In this Teachers TV programme Jane Turner, deputy director of the East of England Science Learning Centre, visits St Mary's Primary School in Birmingham to review and discuss the Learning with Scarlet science programme. Jane joins Veronica Knight who taught a lesson on 'the parts of plants we can eat' to her Year…
Primary Science
In this Teachers TV programme, a Year Five teacher asks for advice on how to use a digital microscope to enhance the learning of lifecycles and a Year Three teacher shows how she has used digital photographs to help children understand fractions. This programme is a useful refresher for anyone who wants to use a digital microscope…
Special Schools: Science
In this programme from Teachers TV Lisa Rees from Ysgol Erw'r Delyn, a special school in Penarth, South Glamorgan, presents her video Teaching Science through Stories to a panel to discuss. Lisa's video looks at making science more accessible in a special school for children with profound and multiple difficulties, and…
Science Stories
This Teachers TV programme follows Alex as he visits a farm with his mum, brother and his younger sister on his seventh birthday. It is divided into three sections on: living things, growing and changing and growing plants.
APP for Primary Science - Mummification with Deborah Herridge
This Teachers TV programme shows CPD trainer Deborah Herridge introducing a practical mummification exercise for Key Stage One and Two which links science and history. Talking to a group of primary science teachers, Deborah shows how a tomato can be mummified using similar techniques to the method employed by ancient Egyptians, relating…
APP for Primary Science - Counting Caterpillars with Deborah Herridge
This programme from Teachers TV demonstrates a fun, low-cost and practical science investigation which will help cover the Assessing Pupil's Progress criteria for pattern-seeking and collecting and representing data at Key Stages One and Two. CPD trainer Deborah Herridge shows a group of primary science teachers a simple…
APP for Primary Science - Introducing Deborah Herridge
In this Teachers TV programme trainer Deborah Herridge reveals her passion for practical science to Key Stage One and Key Stage Two teachers. Starting with a testable question she challenges the teachers to find out which hands grab the most sweets, an exciting exercise which encourages children to carry out a fair test whilst engaging…
Properties of Fabrics - The Cross-country Run
This starter clip from Teachers TV shows the properties of three materials and how they are suited for different purposes. The clip shows a cross-country race between three differently-dressed people, highlighting how each material can be put to practical use. The film ends with a question designed to instigate a primary classroom…
Habitats and Food Chains - Fox and Hedgehog
In this Teachers TV short programme, animals and plants talk about their place in a food chain and how they are interlinked. A fox, a hedgehog, a caterpillar and a carrot talk about what they eat, showing how animals and plants are reliant on one another to survive. When one of the links disappears it shows what happens to the rest…
Seeing in the Dark
This short lesson starter from Teachers TV, aimed at Year One children gives a clear example of how light is needed to see. A man takes his dog Woody for a walk in the woods at night, who promptly runs away. This clip leads into a discussion about how Dick managed to find Woody in the dark woods.
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