A couple of newspapers have today picked up on a story about a letter which appears in today's Times Educational Supplement (TES). The ...
Teachers / Literacy
It's been mentioned briefly on this blog before, but I've been asked to draw people's attention again to the ongoing Becoming A ...
Latest from OnTheWeb
The latest issue of OnTheWeb contains its usual mixture of reports on all sorts of education and childcare related topics. Among the highli...
Internet Detective
Fancy brushing up on your internet skills? Hopefully some of you are finding the occasional tips that I post on here useful when using the i...
A Visit from Two Princesses
We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. Three of my grandchildren came and with my grandson in the highchair it was necessary to create ...
Children's Rights
A number of reports looking at the views of children living away from home or receiving social care services have been published duting the ...
Starting To Learn
Today and tomorrow sees a gathering of the great and good of the early years world at The Early Years Foundation Stage: Views From Near And ...
Google Scholar
One of the most interesting things about a job like mine is seeing how the way that students access information changes over time. When I st...
If You're Happy & You Know It...
With all the reports in recent months on bullying, poverty, exam stress, obesity and more besides, you'd be forgiven for thinking that B...
Speaking of infants and toddlers...
I just returned from the annual NAEYC convention. This year it was held in Chicago and it was a big event. I had the opportunity of spending...
Play / Poverty
There's two new reports out today which are worth mentioning. They concern play and poverty, two of the topics which students most frequ...
Children's Television
Last month, Ofcom published An independent Report on The Future of Children’s Television Programming ; this is a piece of research which the...
ADHD / Medication
Tonight's episode of Panorama on BBC1 will feature new research which appears to demonstrate that drugs such as Ritalin, which are used...
Open Access Journals
As if we didn't have enough academic journals available through Athens, there is also a large (and growing) number of 'open access...
Special Educational Needs / School Sport
This week the excellent Teachers TV is featuring a range of programmes which deal with various aspects of Special Educational Needs. As usu...
Child Safety
Last week saw the launch of No Fear , a new publication which investigates whether a preoccupation with keeping children safe is having the ...
Future Family
The BBC's Breakfast Programme is running a series of features this week on modern family life in Britain. Each of the reports will be ...
Whew!
I just finished creating some experiences and activities to populate a new teacher website resource. We already have resources for Head Star...
Latest from the Primary Review
The latest reports from the Primary Review (look at this previous post for information about the project) have again succeeded in making h...
Resource Banks
When you're out on placement, are you ever stuck for ideas on what to do with the children in your classroom? Or perhaps you just want t...