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You may have thought that those old, plain (but very useful) Interactive Teaching Programs for the Primary Strategy had been lost when the Government archived all the old material.[...]

We all know that it is important children experience mathematical activities across a range of contexts and locations – and that outdoor learning is just as important as R[...]

Okay, let’s be open… this is a project from last year! The Teachers Resource website was going to launch last year – but ill-health meant I could not complete the[...]

Tony Cotton’s marvelous Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics is now in its 2nd edition. Why is this important? Well if you are fairly new to teaching primary aged c[...]

The Guardian Newspaper’s Secret Teacher tells us that “No amount of data or spreadsheets can alter the fact that all students progress at different rates” (Secret[...]

Ok, hands up, who know’s someone who is as helpful as this?   I found these recently at quickmem.com – listed as “Unhelpful High School Teacher”. Well,[...]

Here’s a unique way to support the educational charity ‘Common Hope’. The charity is focussed on supporting and empowering children and their families in Guatemal[...]

The arrival of the 2012 Olympics is clearly an event that sparks much interest. It is wholly sensible to use this context to help engage learners and we have produced our own set o[...]

For a long time now most teachers and researchers have agreed that effective learning takes place when learners actively construct meaning. For example, Mills, O’Keefe & Whitin[...]