READING - Digital Footprint Tap here for our Free App! Get all our media picks, personalized for your kids. No thanks Jump to navigation Discover the best apps, games, and websites and learn best practices forteaching with technology. Basic Internet Safety Learning to recognize the warning signs of these risks will allow trusted adults to intervene and lessen potential negative impacts. By acting as a resource, parents and guardians can help make the Internet a safer place for their families. As a parent or guardian, you should stay well-informed about current issues to understand what your children are experiencing on and off the Internet. If they are social networking, instant messaging, using webcams, or blogging, help them use these tools safely by learning how to use them yourself.
READING - 20 Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment I visit a lot of classrooms. And I'm always fascinated by the variety of ways teachers launch the new school year and also with how they "run their rooms" on a daily basis. From these visits and my own experiences as an instructor, I'd like to offer my top 20 suggestions for keeping your classroom a safe, open, and inviting place to learn. 1. Community Build All Year Long. Routinely include strategies and activities in your lessons, such as Save the Last Word for Me, that allow students to express their thoughts and ideas, build relationships, and practice collaboration. Safeguarding Children As parents – or relatives, teachers and other adults responsible to children’s safety – we want our children and those we look after to be healthy and happy … and to develop well both physically and mentally. Above all, it’s also instinctive that we want kids to be safe. Children learn through exploration and natural curiosity, and it is part of our job as parents and carers to encourage that. However, as our children grow up, develop and discover new experiences, we have to take more and different steps to ensure their safety. Until their understanding and instincts catch up with their curiosity, our children need to be protected from everyday dangers – whether crossing the road, in and around the home, trying new foods or talking to new people they meet. And sooner or later … going online.
READING - Displays – The Sheffield College Displays can be powerful tools to: Extend learning spaces in order to maximise learningShow industry standards and expectations to influence learners’ personal AND professional developmentCelebrate success in order to increase expectationsShowcase future possibilities in order to raise aspirationsHighlight diversity in order to create an inclusive environmentPresent relevant aspects of English and maths to further develop learners’ skills in these areas Some questions Displaying, commenting upon and celebrating success?Promoting work-related skills and industry standards/values?Incorporating positive and aspirational role models and stories from diverse backgrounds?
RESOURCE - Maths Calendars Once again, a few of my favorite bloggers have come through with math calendars for our students to puzzle over. Check them out: Things to Do with a Math Calendar At home: Post the calendar on your refrigerator. Use each math puzzle as a daily review “mini-quiz” for your children (or yourself).
READING - Taking the courage to go beyond equality and diversity Guest post by Kay Sidebottom, Teacher Educator at Barnsley College and Northern College. It’s Sunday night, and across the country teachers will be busily working on lesson plans, marking books and turning the house upside down looking for post-it notes (actually that last one could just be me). READING - A powerful poem about race and gender Remember when you were a child and it felt like everyone — parents, teachers, adults in general — tried to speak for you? It was probably really frustrating. When I was growing up, I felt like my parents thought they knew everything about how I felt. Yes, Mom. I actually did want to go to summer camp.
READING/VIDEO - What are women? I just finished reading the book, The Good Earth, and of course, I had many questions regarding it and its contents. My original question relating to this story was “What is a woman?” But then it occurred to me that I hate that question, because all throughout society there has been a depiction that there is only one type of woman. This, partly due to the phrases such as “you throw like a girl“, “don’t cry like a girl“, “only girls have long hair” which are all indicating that there is only one type of girl, as if we all act the same towards everything. As if we are all weak, as if we are an entirely different species, humor me not but even if society says different; we are all human.
READING - Teaching and Trust (Nomads II, by Pablo Jurado Ruiz) Every once in a while the bleak personal stories of our students are opened up to us like a drawer of knives. We get a brief glimpse into personal prisons that children shouldn’t ever experience. Names will rise to the surface of the mind of every teacher when I present this scenario: boys, girls – success stories and failures. Always too many failures. WEBSITE - A Website For Students Who Think They Hate Maths The best resource for a student that thinks they hate math is a great teacher. But what about the best resource for that teacher? Beyond an active imagination, ability to relate to students, and an incredibly strong content knowledge themselves, it may not get much better than Numberphile .
READING - Helping Students Believe That They can Write I am an extremely fortunate teacher. My classes are filled to the brim with bright, capable and hard-working students. I am constantly impressed by the arguments they construct in essays and the points that they raise in class discussions. Although it might sound cliche, I can honestly say that I am proud of every single one of my students. Sadly, I am regularly told by some of my students that they do not have the ability to succeed in my class.
READING - Autism and education: key points and resources When providing the best provision for pupils with autism there are many aspects and people to consider. Gareth D Morewood collates why we know what we know. I have written quite a lot about autism and education, indeed it is possibly the area I have most involvement with as a SENCo, researcher and supporter of families and young people. With the raft of changes and pressures in the educational system at the moment it is easy to forget some of the stark realities relating to outcomes for autistic young people in our schools. READING - Independent Thinking - Blog The following model is the one we use as the cornerstone to underpin relational practice. It is based on a model originally created by Malcolm Glaser, but more recently promoted by Ted Wachtel and Paul McCold. It’s called the Social Discipline Window and it's the basis for a restorative practice model built on high challenge and high support.