This blog is produced by the recruitment agency Engage Education and covers a wide variety of issues relevant to teachers. It includes advice on how to be a better teacher in the classroom, advice on how teachers can best manage their career, how to look after themselves outside of the school, and so on.
The National Numeracy site has a great ’essentials of numeracy’ diagram which encapsulates the essential components in understanding numbers, the number system and the ways that numbers can be combined and used – to help learners decide on their own personal starting point and pathway to develop key skills in numeracy.
The old DfES Standards Site for schools was huge, unwieldy and difficult to navigate. However, it did include many useful resopurces – not least the on-screen teaching applications for maths (interactive 100 squares, number lines, scales, and dozens more). The site was decommisioned by the new Government in 2010 but has been archived.
All current policy and resources is now on the new Department for Education site
A fabulous DfE funded site aimed at enhancing professional development in Maths teachers across all sectors and levels. There are news items, message boards, regular email magazines, stacks of resources and links to some very interesting blogs from maths teachers, etc.
This site, created after the 2010 election, replaced old uk.gov education sites such as the Standards Site and various post-16 sites. It is now archived.
Most of the Publications sections has disappeared although you can still find some important documents such as the Leitch Review (2007).
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) took over the work of the Basic Skills Agency more than decade ago. The NIACE site is also now closed, but many of the useful policy and research documents now be found at the L&W Institute. Visit the Downloadable Publications area for dozens of free publications.
Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator) published the final Functional Maths, English and ICT criteria in November 2009. Available at http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/qualification-and-assessment-framework/89-arti…
These replaced the draft standards at the end of the FS pilot stage (Sept 2010).
