Teaching Links

Where to find information or advice on Teaching in......

~ Lincolnshire ~

"The young people of today love luxury. They have bad manners, they scoff at authority and lack respect for their elders. Children nowadays are really tyrants, they no longer stand up when their elders come into the room where they are sitting, they contradict their parents, chat together in the presence of adults, eat gluttonously and tyrannise their teachers."

Socrates (469-399 B.C.)

• Lincolnshire County Council's website.
• CEOP - Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
   
• The Gartree Community School.
  I have retired after many worthwhile years teaching there with terrific pupils and colleagues.
  Gartree has since become an "Academy" sponsored by the David Ross Education Trust (DRET).
  I had hoped someone would have the sense of history to rename it after Tattershall College
  or perhaps after the great Sir Joseph Banks, who had enormous influence in the local area.
  However they have opted for the celebrated engineer and inventor Barnes Wallis because of
  the Dambusters connection with the locality.

This part of my website will remain up as a resource for pupils, parents and staff.

"Les absents ont toujours tort." Philippe Nericault (1717)

• The meaning of "Gartree".
• The Gartree Ghost! A tale of horror.
• Former Gartree pupil, the famous Jason Bradbury!
• http://rogerparsons.org.uk/ My Private Tutoring and Home Education page.



~ and Cambridgeshire... ~

• Cambridgeshire County Council - click through to Schools pages.
• Sawston Village College One of Henry Morris' Village Colleges. Visionary.
  My first teaching post in the 1970s, staff and pupils remembered with affection.



~ National sites about Education &c. ~

"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."

From writings of Gaius Petronius Arbitor, Roman governor of Bithynia, who was forced to commit suicide in 65 A.D., having fallen foul of Tigellenus, favourite of Nero.



• Academic Jobs UK - a database of academic and administrative jobs.
• AQA - past papers and mark schemes can be found here.
• Appointments For Teachers - website of contacts for jobs and supply.
• BBC Schools Online - Knowledge & Learning Beta.
• Department for Education.
• eteach.com
• GCSE.COM - Links page.
• Intel Education Resources - STEM
• OFSTED - The Office for Standards in Education.
• OpenLearn - The home of free learning from The Open University.
• Revision Guides & Workbooks from publishers CGP. Order on line.
• Schoolzone - Lots of stuff for teachers and parents!
• ScienceShirts - suppliers of science ties, shirts, Periodic Table posters etc.
• Teachers Net - information for teachers, including job search.
• Times Educational Supplement - TES on-line! Huge jobs section!
• TES Whole school resources



~ and some Subject Links... ~

CITIZENSHIP LINKS Here are a few key Citizenship links as jumping off points for obtaining further information. Most have good "Links" pages. Let us know if you discover other useful ones that we ought to add. » ACT - Teaching Citizenship » 'Citizenship Teacher' lesson plans » How Parliament works. » Office for National Statistics Online. Last National Census 2011. » GOV.UK - The new place to find government services and information. » House of Commons - How to Contact your MP. » UK Youth Parliament - get involved! » Hansard - Search for what your MP actually said! » "Lincolnshire Media" - links to local TV, Radio and Newspapers. See what is being reported. » Lincolnshire County Council - Local Government at work. Loads of local information. » European Parliament - Our Voice in Europe - but not for much longer? Contact e-mail address:




These sites may be helpful to pupils and parents as well as teachers!

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."

Carl Sagan



• ASE - The Association for Science Education.
• Calculator.com - an On-line Scientific Calculator etc.
• CLEAPSS School Science Service
• Dataloggerama
• The Deep - worth a visit.
• Complete GCSE Chemistry - useful bank of information for KS4 pupils.
• What2Learn Geography - useful bank of Geography information for teachers and parents.
• The Hot Potatoes suite - create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence,
  crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises.
• MathsNet – Mathematics, Education, Information Technology &c.
• Magna - another good visit.
• PhysicsWeb - IOP Articles and links.
• National Museum of Science & Industry - including the Science Museum.
• Science Teaching "Freebies" - A selection of activities and resources for Key Stage 3 and 4 Science.
• Teachers' Channel - try YouTube Science selection.
• WebElements Periodic Table - home of the periodic table on the World-Wide Web - very useful!



» Space, Biology and History of Science links you will find elsewhere on this website.

 




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