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Creative Curriculum | Teaching Times | Imaginative Minds
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A PHP Error was encountered. Message: Undefined index: myriad flag. Dramatic urban changes were used by Deansfield Comprehensive School to develop a curriculum around design and regeneration that inspired and empowered students. Pupils were intrigued about how the 12 acre site would be developed and this became a focal point for creative coursework involving around 400 young people and their families. Visit Creative Teaching and Learning. Learning: creative approaches that raise standards. Kym Stewart sh...
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Teaching Times
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Welcome to Teaching Times! Welcome to the Imaginative Minds new-look website. Here you will find articles and resources covering a wide-range of themes and the changing priorities within schools. The resources include our catalogue. Of books and resources, where you will find products designed to raise standards of teaching and learning, as well as our archive. TeachingTimes provides you with the best professional practice support available:. A huge archive of easily searchable best practice articles.
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Children from affluent families get help with creative careers
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Children from affluent families get help with careers. New research has revealed that children from affluent families use their connections to get onto the creative industry career ladder. These are the findings of the ‘Creative Industries’ report by YouGov Plc on behalf of Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE). The ‘Creative Industries’ YouGov polling showed:. 95% of parents are supportive of their children working in the creative and cultural industries. Common reservations expressed by parents inclu...
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Primary Leadership
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A PHP Error was encountered. Message: Undefined index: myriad flag. An open mind and a smile on your face. How do you like to spend your summer holiday? Relaxing on a beach somewhere, catching up with what should have been the spring-cleaning? How would you feel about travelling across the world for three weeks, eating dahl for breakfast and teaching pupils who take their shoes off to walk to school? Visit School Leadership Today (plt). Welcome to the new primary curriculum. A national survey of 2,000 pa...
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Parents find out what school their child has been offered
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Parents find out what school their child has been offered. Thousands of anxious parents and carers across the country are told this week what secondary school place their child has been offered. To support and guide those who are disappointed with their offer, the Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) has issued its five-point “CHILD” action plan. Keep Calm – it may feel like the end of the road but there are things you can do. Seek Help – contact ACE or the choice adviser at your local authority. Ldquo;Ho...
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Deaf children failed by LAs and more likely to be abused
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Deaf children failed by LAs and more likely to be abused. Research commissioned for the National Deaf Children's Society by the University of Manchester, and published in Every Child Journal, has revealed that social care and child protection services across England are failing deaf children and their families. As a result, deaf children are more likely to be abused, suffer mental health problems, struggle learning to read and become unemployed. Only 37% of local authorities surveyed showed evidence of c...
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Providing children Home Access to technology
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Providing children Home Access to technology. In September 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a new initiative to ensure that all learners in state maintained education in England would have the opportunity to have access to a computer and the internet in their home. By supporting more effective learning, engaging better with the wider community and supporting a thriving economy, the Home Access programme will be help to create better outcomes for children, learners and adults alike. Schools now...
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Secondary Leadership
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A PHP Error was encountered. Message: Undefined index: myriad flag. Keeping their options open what you need to know. Over the next couple of months young people in schools and colleges face some of their most important educational choices. But how have the 14-19 reforms enhanced the options available? And how can staff be best prepared to deal with questions that come their way? Visit School Leadership Today. Drawing the line at bullying. Engaged and motivated students. Over 1,000 schools and colleges o...
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EARLY YEARS
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A PHP Error was encountered. Message: Undefined index: myriad flag. We talk a lot about developing creativity but how do you go about it? In this article Jo Skone, Forest School Coordinator, explains how the outdoors can be used to develop creativity in the early years. We hear about the benefits of problem-solving in real-life contexts, spontaneous activities and the application of learning. To find out more. Visit School Leadership Today (plt). The Impact of integrated services - Sure Start. In this ar...
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The best and worst of international teaching
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The best and worst of international teaching. Love the adventure, develop cultural understanding, extend your teaching skills, but miss your family. That’s what teachers who have been teaching overseas for several years are telling new recruits to international teaching. The influx of new teachers into the international schools market has grown significantly. According to ISC Research, the organisation that analyses developments in the international schools market, since 2000 the number of staff in i...
