Improving Design Sub-skills
This Teachers TV programme follows resistant materials specialist Sharon Giraud, from Nower Hill High School in Harrow, as she teaches two lessons, three weeks apart, as part of a nine-week module on jewellery design. The new Key Stage Three Strategy at the time of filming placed a greater emphasis on design. Harrow was one of ten…
E-assessment: Where Next?
This Teachers TV video Professor Richard Kimbell explains how e-portfolios could be used to assess students' design and technology work. This video looks at using mobile phones to test Key Stages Two, Three and Four students at the time of their choosing, abandoning the idea of ascribing numerical marks to students'…
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…
Learning Maths with Kyane
This programme from Teachers TV follows the progress of one Year Four child as he learns about 3D shapes. Kyane, a student at Erdington Hall Primary near Birmingham, is regularly absent from school due to asthma. He is often behind with school work and is not socially integrated in his class. Harriet, his teacher, has written…
Problem Solving in Primary Maths - Review
In this programme from Teachers TV, Professor Lindsay Logan and Isabel Murphy review the Teachers TV programme Problem Solving in Primary Maths - the Session with teacher Mark Valentine. Logan was responsible for drawing up the guidelines for problem solving in the mathematics curriculum in Scotland, while Murphy is an education…
Problem Solving in Primary Maths - the Session
In this programme from Teachers TV Mark Valentine, teaching head of Nethermill Primary School near Dumfries, gives a group of four upper Key Stage Two children a challenging problem to solve, looking at the interior and exterior angles of polygons and how they relate to the number of sides. The problem requires the children…
Whiteboard Numeracy: Decimals and Rotational Symmetry
In this programme from Teachers TV, primary mathematics consultant Darren Ellsum presents two lessons showing how ICT can be used to teach abstract concepts in numeracy. In the first lesson, Year Four teacher Paul Greenwood uses the interactive whiteboard to show how to relate fractions to decimals. Children then play an online…
Whiteboard Numeracy: Ratio and Proportion
In this Teachers TV programme primary maths consultant Darren Ellsum introduces the idea of using ICT in numeracy teaching to illustrate abstract topics. In the first of two lessons, advanced skills teacher Liz Walker uses presentation software in edit mode to illustrate ratio to her students in Bexley. Children work in pairs using…
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…
Fun with Maths
This programme from Teachers TV shows how teaching assistants at one primary school are supporting mathematics both in and out of the classroom. The teaching assistants at Glenbrook Primary School have developed games and activities to help teach mathematics and engage children who need extra support. Sue's card game reinforces…
KS2 Maths - Geometry: Lesson Review
In this programme from Teachers TV Petula Allen, headteacher and former mathematics adviser helps Gary Clapperton review his lesson on Geometry with Year Six. Petula reflects on how useful the whiteboard is and they look in detail at how it enhanced Gary's explanation of ratio. The way that the shapes can be moved and re-sized…
Numeracy - Interpreting Data
This Teachers TV programme follows on from the programme Numeracy - Handling Data where Year Four teacher Simon Mills taught three lessons on data handling using Excel in the ICT suite. Professors Rosamund Sutherland and Jan Winter of the University of Bristol discuss the benefits of using ICT to teach data handling at Key Stage…
Numeracy - Handling Data
This Teachers TV programme observes a Year Four class at a Bristol primary school where teacher Simon Mills uses the problem of the distribution of colours in a tube of sweets to explore the challenge of understanding frequency and interpreting and presenting data. The class worked in the school's ICT suite over three lessons…
Maths Stories
This programme from Teachers TV contains seven clips which may be used to demonstrate a technique for teaching number operations and fractions using paper cups. Teachers should view the programmes Just a Fraction and Understanding Fractions to see the technique being used with a class. The clips relate to the following: •…
Learning Science with Kyane
This programme from Teachers TV follows Kyane, a Year Four child at Erdington Hall Primary School in Birmingham. Kyane is on an individual educational and behaviour plan. This programme shows his level of engagement during a science lesson on friction. Children work in groups to investigate friction using model vehicles, ramps…
Following in Darwin's Footsteps
This Teachers TV programme follows the winners of the Rolls Royce Science Prize 2007, St Stephen & All Martyrs School, Bolton. They studied the classification of plants through their project Following in the Footsteps of Darwin. In order to respond to a lack of interest in science within the school and having heard about…
Teeth, Springs, Rocks and Other Topics
This programme from Teachers TV comprises seven short starter clips for Key Stage Two science topics. Each clip ends with a question to prompt discussion or lead into an investigation. The topics are: • Types of teeth • Springs • Properties of different rocks • Thermal insulators • Gases around us •…
Organic Farm
In this programme from Teachers TV a mixed Year Five and Six class from Fordcombe Church of England Primary School visits an organic farm and study centre for a day to learn about food and farming. Commonwork, in the heart of the picturesque Weald of Kent, boasts over 500 acres of land and an organic herd of 280 dairy cows. The class…
Astronomy - Observatory Trip
This Teachers TV programme follows amateur astronomer Bill Forest as he gives a primary class a tour of an observatory. Teacher Adrienne Bullen arranges an evening trip for her class from Ponsbourne St Mary's Primary School in Hertfordshire. The children ask questions about space and look at stars through a telescope, getting…
Forces - Rocket Launch
This starter clip from Teachers TV demonstrates how much air pressure is needed to move objects of varying size. Scientist Dr Mark Biddiss constructs a makeshift launch pad, watched by children from Orion Primary School in north London. The air volumes are changed to project small, medium-sized and large bottles into the air. It…
Scientific Enquiry - Paper Loop
In this starter clip from Teachers TV, the principles of the mobius strip are demonstrated by scientist Dr Mark Biddiss. Children from Orion Primary School in north London watch Dr. Biddiss show how the strip works, as he twists the paper strip into a loop and cuts it along its length to produce one big loop. This could lead into…
Heat - Naughty Balloons
This starter clip from Teachers TV shows how colour affects heat absorption. Scientist Dr Mark Biddiss holds various coloured balloons over a heat source, watched by children from Orion Primary School in north London. The experiment shows how balloons react differently in relation to heat depending on their colour. It could be used…
Muscles - Using a Longbow
Produced by Teachers TV as part of their Lesson Starters series, this clip shows how muscles work in pairs, relaxing and contracting to cause movement of bones. An archer fires an arrow demonstrating movement of the arms and shoulders. This clip is suitable for use when learning about moving and growing. The video ends with a question…
Micro-organisms - Making Bread and Cheese
Produced by Teachers TV as part of their Lesson Starters series, this clip shows how micro-organisms are used in food production. A baker talks about how yeast is a living organism and about the conditions it needs to reproduce and how this is utilised in the making of bread. Then a cheesemaker shows how cheese is produced using…
Reducing Friction - Skid Pan
Part of the Lesson Starters series, this Teacher’s TV programme is a short clip demonstrating how friction works. A driving instructor drives a car around a test track in wet conditions, and discusses how friction is reduced by the water. The video ends with a question designed to prompt discussion on how other weather conditions…
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