October 14, 2015
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Comments Off on ¡Hablando y escuchando en una clase de lengua moderna!
Modern language teaching has become a very important aspect of education today. This is particularly seen in the Curriculum for Excellence’s 1+2 approach to modern language teaching in todays classrooms. This approach allows for schools to teach a variety of languages from German and Spanish to Chinese and Gaelic, depending on their resources and teacher […] Continue reading
October 13, 2015
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Comments Off on Professionalism and the Online World- TDT
There are numerous challenges which come across when you put together the Personal vs Professional presence on social media. It is crucial to make sure that as a professional you have separate Social Media accounts so that your personal life does not come into your Professional life. Also, it is important what we make our Personal accounts private […] Continue reading
October 12, 2015
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Comments Off on What makes a teacher who makes a difference
The video titled ‘What makes a teacher who makes a difference’ on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58EFAwnKpw covered a variety of thoughts on the matter of professionalism. The video highlights the need for teachers to maintain a high level of professionalism in order to complete their job successfully eg. assisting and helping children to learn. The video […] Continue reading
October 12, 2015
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Comments Off on Benefits of Active Learning and Co-operative Working
The Benefits of Active Learning Active learning is the process by which students engage in their learning in order to prevent the occurrence of passive learning which is when the mind does not fully absorb what it is being taught as it is working in an automatic fashion. Learning actively helps pupils to fully understand […] Continue reading
October 12, 2015
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Comments Off on How did gender affect my school experience?
Gender bias can go back to the very first day in Primary school where girls had pink or purple themed clothes pegs and name cards and boys had blue or green. From being on placement it is clear that this is still something which occurs in primary schools – getting no say in whether the children would prefer a […] Continue reading
October 11, 2015
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Comments Off on Maths – as easy as 1, 2, 3?
Maths!! I suppose you could say it’s a bit like marmite; you either love it or hate it! It can put the fear of God into some people and evoke feelings of happiness and pure fulfilment in others. Me? I am probably somewhere in the middle of the both of them. I remember Maths from about […] Continue reading
October 8, 2015
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Comments Off on Who is education really for?
Last year saw the increase of hours in nursery and partnership pre-school settings increased to 600 hours. This move meant that children were now entitled to sessions of three hours and ten minutes where previously a session would last two and a half hours. The increase in hours was met with mixed emotions from both […] Continue reading
October 7, 2015
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Comments Off on Pre-schooling differences; Sweden V Scotland
After an interesting input last week about pre-schooling in Sweden and how it contrasts to Scotland, i have become very interested in the topic and feel strongly on the matter. Due to statistics and results proving how drastically better pre-schooling is in Scandanavian countries, why are we not changing our pre-schooling experience in Scotland for […] Continue reading
October 6, 2015
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Comments Off on Mathematics,what does it mean to me?
As part of my recent maths elective we were looking at the Ishango bone. Some mathematicians may argue that this form of tallying cannot be called true maths as there are no concepts of fundamental mathematics involved . However I am not convinced. Maybe it is because we take for granted numbers and the way […] Continue reading
October 6, 2015
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Comments Off on Professionalism Online
What challenges/opportunities you may be faced with when marrying the personal vs the professional presence on social media? Having a profile that is a mix of personal and professional life is dangerous, however, I believe it can have great benefits. If you have a shared account, it can allow colleagues (or pupils in an older […] Continue reading
October 4, 2015
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Comments Off on Reflections on The Marte Meo approach
This Saturday I had the fantastic opportunity to represent CSNIPs, the charity that I am involved with, at the annual Early Years Scotland (formerly SPPA) conference in Glasgow. As well as a fantastic opportunity to network for the charity this was a great opportunity for CPD. I was looking forward to listening to Maria Aarts, […] Continue reading
October 4, 2015
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Comments Off on World Wide Wondering
Plato believed that the man who explores the wider world can experience a more fulfilling life; his allegory on the Cave providing an educational philosophy striving for justice and the creation of a just world. The concept of dialogical teaching, disrupting a pupil’s grasp of a subject to show them how to engage in agonistic […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on Active Learning In Mathematics
In my experience as a practitioner, and from my MA1 placement, I tried to teach as many maths lessons as I could in order to increase my confidence. I had no previous experience teaching maths and it was a daunting experience to say the least. However, after taking numerous lessons with different, my confidence grew […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on In the beginning…
I think to lay the foundations for this post I need to start at the beginning with my own thoughts, experiences and aspirations. Maybe it was growing up in the school system of the 80’s and 90’s or perhaps it was the teachers that shaped my views on the subject of mathematics, either way, I […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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September 29, 2015
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Comments Off on How gender affected me as a child…
Growing up as a child and throughout my time at primary school it was obvious that there were cases of gender stereotyping. First of all every teacher in my primary school apart from the Principal was female therefore as a boy I felt very much second best at times. I feel that the teacher cared […] Continue reading
September 28, 2015
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Comments Off on Gender in Schools
In my experience at school I feel that my gender did not have much of an impact. I was lucky enough to attend Primary and Secondary Schools that allowed their pupils to be themselves. Males and females were seen as equal. The only time there was any kind of separation due to gender was for […] Continue reading
September 28, 2015
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Comments Off on How did your gender affect you when you were a child?
Thankfully, I never felt that my gender affected me negatively as a child. I never felt prohibited to pursue any tasks or activities as a child. Both at home and in the classroom I was encouraged to always be the person that I wanted to be and at a young age, it never occurred to me … Continue reading How did your gender affect you when you were a child? Continue reading
September 28, 2015
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Comments Off on How gender stereotypes affected me at primary school
In the book ‘Learning to teach in the Primary School’ by Teresa Cremin and James Arthur, they describe the definition of ‘gender’ as being different to that of ‘sex’. Whereas the term ‘sex’ is used to signify the biological differences between male and female, ‘gender’ describes the patterns of behaviour and attitudes attributed to members […] Continue reading
September 25, 2015
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Comments Off on How did my gender affect me as a child?
To answer this question simply, I don’t believe that my gender did have too much of an affect on me as a child. I can never remember being treated any differently because I was a girl and to be honest I cannot remember ever thinking to myself “I cant do this because I’m a girl!” […] Continue reading
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