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Basic Skills Agency
The Basic Skills Agency defines basic
skills as:
" the ability to read, write, and speak
in English (or Welsh), and to use mathematics at a level necessary to
function at work and in society in general "
They are "committed to working with
others to make sure that effective opportunities exist to help children,
young people and adults strengthen their basic skills."
Count
On
(http://www.counton.org/)
Count On is the new DfES popular maths
project, continuing the mission of Maths Year 2000. Count On has been
funded for two years initially, and is based at the University of York.
TeacherNet
; Special Educational Needs and Disability
. . .aims to provide a wide range of advice
and materials for teachers, parents and others interested in or working
with children with special educational needs.
Parents' Centre
A site for parents to help them (and
teachers?) understand the UK's rapidly changing and often confusing
education system.
DfES
Parental Involvement
This website has been designed to help
schools get the most from parental involvement. It offers some suggestions
on how to achieve effective partnership with parents and how best to
manage and use your home-school agreement.
DfES
Raising Standards Opening Doors
DfES document on developing links between
schools and their communities.
DfES
Research Briefs
If you believe research and theory have a
place in education this is the site for you.
Higher
education student support
DfES site for online applications for
financial support.
Inclusion
An NGfL / BECTa-run site, Inclusion is .
. .
"a free catalogue of resources for
teaching professionals, learners, parents and carers. Resources
include publications, software, hardware, guidance and links to other
organisations to aid independent living and learning."
It's Your
Choice - post 16 choices
Now part of the Connexions empire, (for the
moment) this site to help students
and parents to make the difficult choice of what to do next at 16.
Recommended
KS3
National Strategy
The UK Govt.'s strategy for Key Stage 3
(11-14 year-olds). Of the strategy the Government say:
"The Key Stage 3 National Strategy is about making education for
11 to 14 year-olds challenging, demanding, vigorous and inspiring across
the whole curriculum."
If you teach KS3 then this is probably a must
visit site.
Lifelong
Learning
Is the,
"leading web site for the
encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning. Lifelong
Learning is supported by the Access to Learning for Adults Division of the
Department for Education
and Employment."
National
Curriculum On-Line
UK's National Curriculum documents online.
The site "links to hundreds of useful websites that will help you to
teach the National Curriculum for England, linked to teaching
requirements."
Teachers are encouraged to share good
resources via this site.
National Literacy Strategy
This NLS site claims to support
"teachers and others working to
improve literacy in our schools. It makes available guidance and documents
about the National Literacy Strategy. It provides direct access to
professional development materials as well as information about new
initiatives and events to support improvements in literacy."
National
Numeracy Strategy
Numeracy section of the UK Government's Standards
Site.
"The site supports teachers and
others working to improve numeracy in our schools. It makes available
guidance and documents about the National Numeracy Strategy. It provides
direct access to professional development materials as well as
information about new initiatives and events to support improvements in
numeracy."
SchoolsWeb
Locate
Claims to be a new online directory to
help find information on any "schools related topic on DfES
websites and beyond."
TeacherNet
"DfES's gateway to the world of
education online.
TeacherNet aims to provide easy access to
the full range of relevant government information and services and,
shortly, to National Grid for Learning badged classroom
resources."
Social
Exclusion Unit
The Social Exclusion Unit was set up by the
Prime Minister to help improve Government action to reduce social
exclusion by producing ‘joined-up solutions to joined-up problems’.
"This website is being maintained for archive purposes and will not be updated."
Information for the Social Exclusion
website has now been transferred to the Office of Deputy Prime Minister -
political pundits make of this what you will.
The
Standards Site
. . . is an on-line service for teachers in
England to help raise standards of
achievement in schools. It is managed
by the Standards and
Effectiveness Unit (SEU) of the Government's Department for
Education and Employment.
Sure
Start
Sure Start is "a cornerstone of the
UK Government's drive to tackle child poverty and social
exclusion." It "aims to improve the health and well-being of
families and children before and from birth, so children are ready to
flourish when they go to school."
The
Training and Development Agency for Schools
...... "work with schools to develop the workforce and ensure that schools can recruit good-quality, well-trained people. We support schools to provide extended services for parents, children and young people."
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Last update 16/01/07
16/01/07
