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: •…
Science
In this video from Teachers TV, Science teacher Nichola Offer uses a range of techniques to help her students think about STEM related careers. In a lesson based on in vitro fertilisation(IVF), Nicola invites the school nurse to support the activities and talk about her work. In a role play activity, the Year Eight students think…
Information, Advice and Guidance
In this video from Teachers TV, science teacher Angalika Newton is eager to promote careers in science to her students. Angalika works with Head of Careers Lorette Parker to plan a lesson to introduce the kinds of jobs that studying science can lead to. Their plans include bringing outside visitors into the school, giving advice…
Role Models and Work Placements
In this Teachers TV video, a group of STEM ambassadors visit Bradfield School in Sheffield to share their stories with a group of Year Nine girls. As a lesson starter the students take part in an exercise aimed at combating some of the stereotypical images of STEM related careers. The ambassadors then take questions from the…
Economic Wellbeing
In this Teachers TV programme, staff at Riddlesdown High School in South London are taking steps to encourage students to study science, mathematics and technology. Students at the school participate in a role play as members of a residents' association. During the activity they discuss a proposal to build a pharmaceutical…
Equality and Diversity
This Teachers TV video shows two secondary schools in Blackburn as they explore STEM careers by encouraging their students to take a hands-on approach to learning. Witton Park High School takes a workshop for Year Eight girls which aims to make students aware of gender stereotypes and encourage girls into engineering. The girls…
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
This video is part of the Teachers TV series Worth the Trip, which features a wide variety of out of school activities and offers practical advice on how to organise effective school trips. In this programme, Steve Lord, from Pool School and Community College, takes his Year Seven students to visit Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station…
Bath Bombs and Rockets
This Teachers TV video shows how science AST, Alison Tiltman, is keen to work closely with other departments and encourage cross curricular learning. Combining science, design and technology, and maths, her Year Nine students take part in a challenge to imagine they are running their own cosmetics companies. As part of the project…
Peer to Peer Assessment
This Teachers TV resource features Rich Walters, Teacher of Mathematics at Merchants Academy in Bristol, as he shows an easy-to-use idea where a set of differentiated questions, written on post-it notes, are used to facilitate peer assessment. The technique empowers students and creates highly effective dialogue, enabling students…
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Simon Brilliant Revisited
This resource from Teachers TV features Inspector Clare Gillies, as she makes a return visit to secondary mathematics teacher Simon Brilliant, to see if he has maintained or improved his teaching standards since her last visit three years ago. Previously Simon was classed as good by Clare, having received tailored CPD support and…
Maths with Professor Christopher Zeeman
This resource from Teachers TV features Professor Christopher Zeeman at the Royal Institution in London to talk about mathematics. In 1979, Professor Christopher Zeeman was the first mathematician to deliver a Royal Institution annual Christmas Lecture, which influenced many young mathematicians at the time. It was from these lectures…
Designing APP Assessment for Maths
This resource from Teachers TV features Tom Pole, Head of Mathematics at Plantsbrook School, who has redesigned the Key Stage Three curriculum to deliver Assessment for Pupil Progress. Rich tasks allow students to choose their own path to investigate problems and the movement of a ball on a pool table provides opportunities for…
Testing Times
This Teachers TV resource explores how strong leadership and a broad based mathematics curriculum are key factors in creating an outstanding mathematics department at Oaks Park High School in Essex. The mathematics department aim to give all students the chance to get the best grades they can and have introduced a booster programme…
Creating the Right Atmosphere
This resource from Teachers TV looks at why the mathematics department of Oaks Park High School, in Essex, counts recreational mathematics and good teamwork as central to its success. According to Ofsted, few secondary students cite mathematics as their favourite subject, even those who are doing very well. Staff at Oaks Park…