Celebrating Teaching – developing ideas about teaching and learning
May 27, 2016
As part of our secondary ITE routes our beginning teachers have to develop their own personal theories of teaching and learning and, as the courses come to a close, they present their ideas as part of their PGCE assessment. A teacher training year is an incredibly intensive one and for our beginning teachers to organise …
Celebrating Teaching – MFL PGCE Alumnus
May 26, 2016
I qualified from the PGCE at The University of Nottingham two years ago and I was appointed at the school where I completed my teaching practice. Two years on and I am still here – I am in charge of KS3 Modern Foreign Languages. Alongside classroom duties, my role is to enthuse, encourage and promote …
Celebrating Teaching – PGCE alumnus
May 25, 2016
Having graduated from Hull University with a BA Hons in International Management in 2005, I worked in Recruitment for a few years but was always keen to look for a career that would offer me more; ideally a sense of satisfaction and achievement – enter teaching! I interviewed for the Mathematics PGCE course at The …
Celebrating Teaching – PGCE alumnus
April 26, 2016
I graduated from Loughborough University in 2004 with a 2:2 in Sports Science and Mathematics (Joint Honours) and began my PGCE with The University of Nottingham, in September of the same year. Since leaving the course I have become an AST, worked for the NCETM, been involved in authoring professional development programmes for Tribal and …
Celebrating Teaching – a teacher educator
February 29, 2016
As part of our celebrating teaching initiative, I would like to think about what it means to be a teacher educator and why I am proud of the role I have. If I consider my route into teaching, my starting point was to have a love of, and be good at, my subject. This did not, …
Library Matters » Six reasons why we think the Djanogly Learning Resource Centre is incredible
September 18, 2015
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Shanghai 4 has started
October 28, 2014
We are the fourth cohort of PGCE I students to gather in Shanghai to do a four day face to face course to kick off out PCGEI- a masters-level qualification. There are 61 of us and we all work in International Schools across Asia- from Shanghai itself to Taiwan, Beijing and Korea. Some of us …
Just have to look around to see educational values….
June 12, 2014
As we go to Shanghai schools, we only have to look around us to see how different the education here is from at home. The everyday things tell us about different priorities- culturally and educationally. We can’t help noticing the cultural paradox of a more collective society in which education is fiercely, individually competitive. We …
Shanghai schools- the little things you notice
June 10, 2014
Three new things from Shanghai schools-and they aren’t what you think! Eye exercises. Twice a day, in Shanghai schools, all the children do eye exercises. Suddenly, music comes out of a loudspeaker in the wall, a voice starts to count to the music and all the children hunch over and start massaging their eyes, cheeks …
Becoming a teacher and developing as a teacher in Shanghai
June 6, 2014
As we go round early years, primary and secondary schools, we are meeting teachers old and young and it is clear that teaching is a respected and valued profession here in Shanghai. Confucius seems to have started it, but everyone maintains that respect for teachers. It is a profession youngsters want to join and the …
