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Thank you so much for attending the network event today.  Thanks in particular to Joss.

Here are the links:

Collaborative event 26th June book here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pd-north-virtual-cpd-exchange-tickets-101550022852

CfEM website (with the booklets) https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/supporting/support-practitioners/maths-and-english/cfem/

Book ETF maths and English CPD here https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/supporting/support-practitioners/maths-and-english/courses/

I will invite you to the Edmodo maths group if you are not already a member - please share anything you think is useful here.

Emma Bell's article can be found here https://impact.chartered.college/article/case-study-gcse-maths-resit-maths-motivator-further-education/  It appears that it is only available to members of the charterd college - I will see if I can get a copy and share

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Curated collections of online resources arranged by age group and subject area to make it really easy to find activities suitable for your child - especially for those home teaching during school closures.

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Kate shapes an innovative research programme at The Institute of Leadership & Management designed to inform, inspire and impact the practice of great leadership wherever it happens. Her role is informed by her career as a senior academic in a university business school, focusing on strategy, leadership and professional development.

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Here you will learn how to use a teaching method that does not rely on special resources, can be used to teach all but the most challenging content, which fosters active learning and independence in our students, yet provides learners with support. This, and more, is provided by a structured approach Geoff calls "Independent Learning" (IL). In most cases it has a higher effectiveness than Resource Based Learning, or Computer-Based Learning and it is cheaper to provide. Also, it systematically develops real-life learning skills in students, preparing them for progression.

In Geoff's experience it becomes a preferred teaching method: "If we weren’t isolating, I’d still recommend it," says Geoff."In Independent Learning (IL) students learn a topic which is defined by the teacher but is not taught. The teacher may or may not signpost resources. But support and monitoring are provided by students themselves, who also assess work in progress, but in the end each student’s learning is briefly assessed by the teacher. IL can be used as a component of almost any course and no special resources are required, but it is not an easy teaching method to use. I’ve made all the mistakes, so I am uniquely qualified to help you avoid the elephant traps," adds Geoff.

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Microsoft announces free help for UK schools to run classes via the internet

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Today (9 Apr) @Microsoft announces that all schools in the UK are being offered free help to get fully set up for #RemoteLearning so students can continue to learn whilst at home.

With more than 27,000 schools in the UK, which educate around 10 million pupils, the announcement will enable education customers to:

Work with Microsoft's FastTrack team for free, to help staff learn to run lessons remotely using Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and other programs such as Minecraft: Education Edition, Flipgrid, and Skype in the Classroom

Empower both teachers and students to connect, communicate and collaborate in real time through the use of technology

Create a safe and secure learning environment through Microsoft tools which use intelligent security features enhanced by machine learning to protect data and identities

Chris Rothwell, Director of Education at Microsoft UK, said:
"Schools across the UK are facing unprecedented challenges and their staff are showing incredible resilience, imagination and passion to ensure that they can help keep children safe and can keep learning while they at home. Technology is helping teachers keep in touch with students and to maintain a connection to the school and each other. This offer to support any school get fully set up for remote learning is so that every school and pupil can benefit, and that learning can continue while schools are closed. "

Microsoft's FastTrack team, which works with organisations to quickly get staff up and running with new technology, has announced that it will provide support to help education customers be ready to move to remote learning free of charge. Microsoft has provided Office 365 for Education for free for some time and is now offering extra support to set up a new Office 365 system, or to help existing customers who may only have used basic services, like email.

There are more than 27,000 schools in the UK, which educate around 10 million pupils. Most of them have been at home for the past two weeks following Government legislation.

Microsoft has now pledged to work with those schools so they can run lessons remotely using Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and other popular programs such as Minecraft: Education Edition, Flipgrid, Skype in the Classroom and InTune.

These tools - available on mobile, tablet, PC and browser - promote teamwork, allowing students and teachers to connect with each other, share files, issue and mark work, communicate and collaborate in real time. They also offer a safe and secure learning environment, using intelligent security features enhanced by machine learning to protect data and identities.

Pupils can take virtual field trips via Skype and Teams, while Flipgrid lets them discuss and showcase what they're working on.

Many schools and teachers are already embracing how technology can help them and their students.

For example, Teams is widely used at Ribblesdale High School, in Lancashire. It is allowing leaders to share priorities more easily as well as help with recruitment and communication. Teachers are sharing class materials, praising pupils and holding conversations, while live lessons in Teams allows participants to share their screens to show what they are working on.

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Cornerstone Academy Trust in Devon is using Teams to deliver assemblies, engage with pupils and hold lessons such as Computing, Art, Science and Drama.

Meanwhile, all schools in Wales can access Microsoft 365 and Flipgrid free of charge following a deal announced last year. The country is also creating five Minecraft Learning Centres to help school and colleges use the popular block-building game to teach subjects such as science, history and coding.

As well as a remote learning guide Microsoft has also created three webinars that showcase the benefits of Teams for those anyone working in the education sector:

Online classes & lectures with all your students: Explore how you can create a persistent online classroom with meetings for up to 250 participants. This webinar is designed to help first time users of Teams get started and host classes and lectures with online meetings

: Discover how you can keep students engaged with online meetings for small groups. This webinar is for educators who need to create ad-hoc meetings with selected groups of students and will cover virtual office hours, tutoring sessions, and other group meetings

: Learn how to deploy and manage Teams for students, faculty, and staff. This webinar is designed to assist IT Administrators in setting up Teams for online meetings, collaboration, and more.

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Resources - 4 minute read Isobel Woodger, OCR English Subject Advisor
We know that sometimes as a student, it can be hard to know where to start on an exam board website. This page is a guide to our teaching and learning resources for GCSE and A Levels and how you, as a student, can get the most out of them.

If you're looking for more information about how to use these resources for vocational qualifications like Cambridge Technicals, please look at our guide here.

Finding teaching and learning resources

When you get to your qualification page (GCSE Maths for example), you should see a list of options on the left-hand side. You should click on the 'Planning and teaching' option. If you're on an A and AS Level qualification page, you will often see a tab in the middle of the page with two labels, so please make sure you click on the right one for A Level or for AS Level depending on what you're studying.

The sections on the 'Planning and teaching' page that are available for every subject are:

Delivery Guides

Teaching Activities

Teacher Guides

I'm going to walk you through what you'll find in each of these sections if you click on them and give you some ideas about how to use them.

Delivery Guides

We make Delivery Guides to give teachers ideas about how to teach some topics within a subject. Most of these are .pdf files (some are Word documents), which you can also download and print, as well as accessing them as web pages.

The delivery guides are most often split into three core sections:

Curriculum Content: a list of the things you need to learn that are covered by the guide with some activities like worksheets to help learn the things on the list.

Thinking Conceptually: some information about the key ideas of the topic, the most common misconceptions (things some students may find hard), and the ways this topic connects to other parts of the subject.

Thinking Contextually: a list of ideas and activities that link this topic to other bits of the subject, or ideas that link the topic to the ideas and history around the topic.
How you can use Delivery Guides:

Turn the information in the overview box into ten clear bullet points.

Make a list of the misconceptions and work out if any apply to you. Use this list to structure what activities you choose to do first.

Print and fill in activity worksheets. If you'd rather fill them in online, try doing so in your internet browser through PDFEscape or the browser extensions like Kami or Hypothesis.

Teaching Activities

This is where we keep documents, either Word or .pdf format, that offer teachers activities to use in their lessons with you. This usually means that there is an activity, often a form of work sheet, that is linked to a set of teacher instructions.
How you can use Teaching Activities:

Read through the teacher instructions.

Download any student guide if there is one, then have a go at any activities connected.

Teacher Guides

This is often where we keep documents that can make things clearer for teachers like lists of terminology (subject specific words), topic guides for students or research guides. This is the least specific section so it would be best to open the document to look at the actual information inside.
How you can use Teacher Guides:

Read through the information and make one page of notes, summing up the key ideas

Write ten questions to test someone else when they read through the information

Make a list of subject specific words used and find the three best examples of each one being used.

Some subjects such as Maths, have extra sections that might be worth looking at. These include:

Check In tests: short topic-based tests that you can take at home; some have guides to accompany the tests

Topic exploration packs: packs of information written for teachers with activities for exploring a particular topic

Handbooks: guides to particular skills needed for the subject as a whole

Resource lists: lists of resources linked to the subject.

We hope this helps you find things a little bit more easily but, if you have any questions, the email address for the subject is on the left-hand side of the subject page. Our subject advisors would be happy to answer your questions.

Finally, all the resources mentioned above can be found on the qualification pages of the OCR website. Just click the link and off you go!

About the author
Isobel Woodger, OCR English Subject Advisor
Isobel joined OCR as a member of the English subject team, with particular responsibility for A and AS Level English Literature and A and AS Level English Language and Literature (EMC).

She previously worked as a classroom teacher in a co-educational state secondary school, with three years as second-in-charge in English with responsibility for Key Stage 5. In addition to teaching all age groups from Key Stage 3 to 5, Isobel worked with the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education as a mentor to PGCE trainees. Prior to this, she studied for an MA in film, television and screen media with Birkbeck College, University of London while working as a learning support assistant at a large state comprehensive school.

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MEI received funding from the Nuffield Foundation to develop a new curriculum in maths for post-16 GCSE resit students with a greater emphasis on applying maths in realistic contexts. We worked on the project in 2019, reviewing relevant research and similar qualifications and developing example resources and exam papers. This session will explore some of the findings of the project.
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You will find all info about our online webinars on https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/news/new-series-of-free-webinars-to-support-online-learning/

Recordings have been released.

The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform has been repositioned. Here is the new walkthrough video:https://youtu.be/r7jJOYiHmzI

Both EdTech and EDS programmes are free to all to access:https://enhance.etfoundation.co.uk/

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Natspec is the membership association for organisations which offer specialist provision for students with learning difficulties and disabilities.

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A selection of cross-curricular activities that can be used in school to engage young people of all ages. All of these resources are completely free for everyone to access and can be adapted for use with individual students, small groups or mixed-age classes.
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Activities to support continuing in-school delivery

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Study from Home - Tech Access for Learners Using ‘Mainstream’ Assistive Technology

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Tech access for learners with complex needs

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Colleague Nikki B shared this - a useful summary of what others are doing I think, full of videos - have a look - thanks Nikki

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In today's digest, we would like to provide resources for teachers, students, and parents during the challenging COVID-19 quarantine. Learning and teaching is still going on, but mostly shifted online. In the past few days, we have all probably come across different resources to support this online learning experience and we thought it would be helpful to feature some of these here. If you come across a resource you want to share with us and our community, please feel free to do so here. We will collect all additional suggestions in this speadsheet. Thanks and stay healthy.

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Gateway Qualifications has developed a set of support materials for those delivering ESOL.

These are available in Prism for Centres approved to run ESOL and include:

Contextualising ESOL

Comprehensive guidance on how assessments can be contextualised to make them appropriate for your learners with examples. The guidance covers:

Speaking and Listening at E1, E2, E3, L1, L2

Writing at E1, E2, E3

Reading at E1

Teaching and Learning Resources

These resources have been written specifically to support tutors with delivering ESOL:

Introduction to Teaching and Learning Activities: E1, E2, E3

Introduction to Teaching and Learning Activities: E3, L1, L2

Teaching and Learning Activities: E1, E2, E3 - 7 units of work

Teaching and Learning Activities: E3, L1, L2 - 7 units of work

The units of work include:

1. Food and Healthy Eating
Includes learning about food, meals, mealtimes, opinions about food and the concepts related to healthy eating

2. Friends and Family
Includes learning about family members and friends, describing them, spending time with them, traditions and celebrations and getting on with people around you

3. Community
Includes learning about taking part in community activities and learning about directions and places. It also covers community issues, community activities, charities and raising money.

4. Sport and Leisure
Includes learning about different sports and exercise activities, the links between keeping fit and healthy, hobbies and pastimes.

5. Employment Opportunities
Includes jobs, personal skills and qualities for employment, interests, work experience and planning for the future. It also covers job applications, interview skills and CV writing.

6. Education, Training and Goals
Includes education, their own and in the UK, personal skills and qualities, education and training opportunities, personal goals and future plans and aspirations.

7. Caring for the Environment
Includes weather, climate, geographical features, environment issues, living sustainably, environmental campaigns and awareness raising.

Independent Learning Materials

These learners packs are aimed at learners who do not:

have readily available internet

have access to a wide range of different reaching, viewing and listening resources

They include:

Independent Learning Tutor Guidance

Independent Stage 1 Activities to do on your own: E1 and E2

Independent Stage 2 Activities to do on your own: E3

Independent Stage 3 Activities to do on your own: L1 and L2

Not delivering ESOL with us?

We wanted to share a few of the above resources with you to help support your delivery:
Full versions ESOL Activities to do on your own - Stage 1 ESOL Activities to do on your own - Stage 2 Extracts Independent Learning Tutor Guidance Teaching and Learning Activities - Friends and Family - E1-E3 Gateway Qualifications ESOL Skills for Life

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Suggested Resources - English and ESOL

We have developed our own teaching and learning resources for ESOL. Samples of these resources can be found on the link below, full versions are available in Prism for centres who are approved to deliver ESOL with us.
ESOL Teaching and Learning Resources
The following support materials have been collated from third party websites to help your delivery of English and ESOL qualifications. Whilst we have provided suggested levels and usage, you should check the resources are appropriate for your learners and learning outcomes before using.

Please note: Gateway Qualifications is not responsible for the content of third party websites and, whilst we check external links regularly, the owners of these sites may move or remove documents at any time.

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Suggested Resources - Maths

The following support materials have been collated from third party websites to help your delivery of maths qualifications. Whilst we have provided suggested levels and usage, you should check the resources are appropriate for your learners and learning outcomes before using.

Please note: Gateway Qualifications is not responsible for the content of third party websites and, whilst we check external links regularly, the owners of these sites may move or remove documents at any time.

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To assist you with delivery, we have pulled together resources that can be a great help when creating lesson plans or learning programmes for your learners to do at home.

Types of resources you'll find here include:

Short videos

Lesson plans

Games and quizzes

Articles and information

Presentations

Activities and worksheets

Click on the subject area below to see the suggested resources from third-party websites.

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Vulnerable children are defined slightly more widely than it earlier appeared. DFE officials have suggested that colleges should take a common sense approach and work with councils to categorise students between those whose high needs can't be met at home and those who can be home-based like other students but with customised support.

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A colleague says: A lovely way to have breakout chat rooms for online teaching. It is really effective. All you ned to do is ‘Make Room’, give it a title, enable admin features then set your admin password. Don’t set an entry password though as it can get quite tricky for participants. You can set up several room as give web participants room numbers per pair or group to work collaboratively just as you would in class J.

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PALMS Backchannel Chat | The new alternative to Todaysmeet

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Courses are available through the FutureLearn platform. There is no requirement to be online at any specific time and courses can be completed around work and other commitments. You and your colleagues can collaborate both online and offline, through meaningful tasks, discussions and access to resources.

You'll be supported by experienced facilitators to reflect on your practice and make significant changes to progress student learning. There is no limit to the number of teachers from your school or college that can enrol on our online courses for free. You can upgrade with FutureLearn to get unlimited access to courses and receive certificates of completion.

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The widespread school closures have created new challenges for everyone supporting young people. STEM Learning is working hard to develop and roll out a range of materials, which we hope will help you.

Our subject experts have put together a selection of resources - all of which are completely free for everyone to access. Our subject experts are also available from 8.30am to 4.30pm on weekdays via our webchat, which you can find in the bottom right hand corner of all our web pages.

We will be adding new content and ideas every week.

Resources and support

Coming soon.

Families: activities to do at home

A range of fun, hands-on activities that can be used to engage young people of all ages with science, technology, engineering and maths.
Explore activities Page last updated: 20 March 2020

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The ETF's focus has been on how technology can help teachers and trainers in their current professional practice, develop their understanding of how to redefine their pedagogic approaches with learning technologies.

To affirm and support teachers, trainers and assessors in using technology, the ETF developed the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform which offers free, bite-size, certified online self-learning training modules mapped to the Digital Teaching Professional Framework (DTPF). In September 2019 the ETF launched a Management Dashboard that enables employers to capitalise on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform's EdTech resources across their organisation and support staff development. To support teachers and trainers to use the platform, the ETF created the Start your digital CPD journey with the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform guide.

The ETF has recorded a series of free, online webinars to support colleagues across the FE sector who work from home to support students. Each webinar has supporting modules on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform, more information on the webinars and the supporting modules can be found on the Support for remote working webpage.

The Department for Education (DfE) has introduced a new essential digital skills (EDS) framework and associated national standards. Adults aged 19+ with no or low digital skills will be entitled to take EDS qualifications free of charge under the Adult Education Budget from September 2020, in line with existing entitlements for English and maths. DfE has commissioned the ETF to deliver a blended EDS CPD programme to prepare teachers, trainers and leaders to deliver the new qualifications based on the standards.

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Hello everyone,

In these troubling, uncertain times I thought it would be a good idea to share links to some ideas and resources that might prove useful in the event of school closures due to covid-19. All of these are 100% free.

‍Diagnostic Questions / Eedi

You could set some quizzes for your students to practice. These quizzes are automatically marked, and the insights reveal the specific nature of misconceptions your students might have.

To set individual quizzes, a good place to start is the Collections page on Diagnostic Questions. Here are some of my favourite collections, rammed full of lovely quizzes:

Alternatively, you could set up a SOW from any of these collections so your students receive quizzes at regular intervals. Eedi is the place to do this.

If you haven't already, you'll need to get your classes set up on the platform. We can set this up for you by emailing hello@eedi.co.uk with a spreadsheet ofall of your student's first name, last name, class name on one spreadsheet. If you would like a template, please click here.

This will enable each child to complete assessments from home on their own devices.

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Practice - all year groups

Keep your students' maths skills sharp with plenty of practice. Or better still, direct your students to practice the areas of weakness you have identified using Diagnostic Questions / Eedi. Here are some of my favourites:

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Practice - GCSE only

We don't know what will happen with this summer's exams yet, but here are some resources specifically made for GCSE practice

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Videos and tutorials

If your students get stuck during their practice, then the following might help:

Corbett Maths - clear, concise videos with comprehensive coverage of the entire Key Stage 3 and 4 maths curriculum

Seneca - free online tutorials for age groups. All the maths content is here.‍

Khan Academy - an abundance of videos from the US for all ages groups. All the maths content is here.

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Remote teaching

The thought of remote teaching via video link might well be daunting for some (it would be for me!). So, should you feel the desire (or need), then the following might be useful:

Zoom - a video conferencing tool where you just send a link to all your students and they can hear you and see you and/or your screen. This is free to schools in these troubling times - read more here.

‍Google Classroom - there is a brilliant guide to get you started, and advice on distance learning in general here.

Loom - this free screen recording software has also been made free due to the virus. More details here.

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I hope that is helpful. And remember, if we can help at all with Diagnostic Questions or Eedi then please email hello@eedi.co.uk

Thanks for reading, and stay safe.

Craig and the Eedi team

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How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students

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How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students

Discover practical ways to teach and support your students online

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, there has been an increasing move towards teaching online as schools and universities shut.

Even for experienced practitioners, this situation presents challenges. However, with the right knowledge, you can overcome the hurdles presented by teaching online and embrace its possibilities.

On this course, you'll be given practical steps towards online teaching and student support. You can reflect on your own work, adapt your approaches, and share your stories with a global community of educators who'll help you to get started and keep going in uncertain times.

What topics will you&nbspcover?

Getting started with online teaching

Preparing your students for successful online learning

Using tools designed for creating, sharing and re-mixing plans for learning

Building and sharing a library of learning designs as a community of teachers

Bringing lessons learned from teaching online into your everyday practice

Collecting and responding to student feedback

Reflecting on how we teach online and making iterative improvements

Navigating the personal impact of teaching and learning online

What will you&nbspachieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Who is the course&nbspfor?

This course is designed for educators, teachers, lecturers, and trainers who have to rapidly move from face-to-face to online teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who will you learn&nbspwith?

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How To Teach Online - Free course on FutureLearn

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How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, there has been an increasing move towards teaching online as schools and universities shut. Even for experienced practitioners, this situation presents challenges. However, with the right knowledge, you can overcome the hurdles presented by teaching online and embrace its possibilities.

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Free access (for three months) to engaging eLearning content designed to support professional development across your home-based workforce. Just register to enrol learners and offer effective distance learning. |  | Free of charge for unlimited users. |  | Access through a browser – nothing to install. |  | Available 24/7 from anywhere in the world. |  | Searchable content mapped to City & Guilds/ILM qualifications and apprenticeship standards. |  | Drop in and out as needed. |  | Support continued professional development. |  | Plug gaps in employee time and be ready for when restrictions lift.

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SmartScreen provides online teaching and learning support for tutors, learners and assessors of City & Guilds' qualifications. High quality support materials provide complementary support to the entire teaching and learning experience.

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SmartScreen provides online teaching and learning support for tutors, learners and assessors of City & Guilds' qualifications. High quality support materials provide complementary support to the entire teaching and learning experience.

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This has become one of our most popular tasks and we are hearing about all sorts of creative adaptations. Some youcubians have made grids of 400 and added dice, others have adapted it to let the grid represent 100%. Please post how you use this task with your students.

Task Instructions

This game is played in partners. Two children share a blank 100 grid.

The first partner rolls two number dice.

The numbers that come up are the numbers the child uses to make an array on the 100 grid.

They can put the array anywhere on the grid, but the goal is to fill up the grid to get it as full as possible.

After the player draws the array on the grid, she writes in the number sentence that describes the grid.

The second player then rolls the dice, draws the number grid and records their number sentence.

The game ends when both players have rolled the dice and cannot put any more arrays on the grid.

How close to 100 can you get?

Variation

Each child can have their own number grid. Play moves forward to see who can get closest to 100.

This has become one of our most popular tasks and we are hearing about all sorts of creative adaptations. Some youcubians have made grids of 400 and added dice, others have adapted it to let the grid represent 100%. Please post how you use this task with your students.

Task Instructions

This game is played in partners. Two children share a blank 100 grid.

The first partner rolls two number dice.

The numbers that come up are the numbers the child uses to make an array on the 100 grid.

They can put the array anywhere on the grid, but the goal is to fill up the grid to get it as full as possible.

After the player draws the array on the grid, she writes in the number sentence that describes the grid.

The second player then rolls the dice, draws the number grid and records their number sentence.

The game ends when both players have rolled the dice and cannot put any more arrays on the grid.

How close to 100 can you get?

Variation

Each child can have their own number grid. Play moves forward to see who can get closest to 100.

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CPD in Further Education - The Education and Training Foundation

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Interactive resources for English (Literacy), Maths (Numeracy) & ESOL

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These interactive materials have been taken from the old Read write plus, Move on and Key skills Trainer sites. They provide useful teaching and learning activities from entry level 1 through to level 2 in English (Literacy) and maths (Numeracy). There are also a limited number of resources for ESOL (E3 and L1 only).

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By Chloe Hynes (PDNorth Social Media Comms)

I first heard about Screencasting about 5 years ago during a small action research project being carried out at work between a few colleagues and myself. We were exploring ways of giving learners feedback that's individual to them, personalised and not following the 'one size fits all' department wide approach of the time. One of my colleagues decided to use Screencast's which was an absolute game changer for me and opened up a world of tech used right in adult learning.
So, what is Screencast-o-matic?

Screencast is a program that allows you to record (visually and audibly) your screen. It also allows you to record yourself by webcam either at the same time as your screen recording or just you on your own.

You can record as many screencasts as you like for free but the maximum is 15mins.

You can upload to your own Screencast account, Youtube or download as a video file and do with it what you like!

Screencast-O-Matic have a tutorial video that shows how easy it is to use. To access go here: https://screencast-o-matic.com and click 'Watch Our Video'.

To visualise what a screencast looks like, here's one I prepared earlier...
A little comment about money
Before I get into the thick of Screencast approaches and issues/considerations, please note that this blog is exploring the FREE version of Screencast which I believe most practitioners would be accessing. However, there is an Educational paid for version with many more bells and whistles to play around with including video editing and full integration with Moodle and Google Classroom etc.

For solo payment plans (that detail all the features you get), see: https://screencast-o-matic.com/plans#solo and for the team, go to: https://screencast-o-matic.com/plans#team
Using Screencast with learners
The colleague I mentioned above explored using it whilst giving feedback to learners on their written work in Word. Our learners were ESOL learners so listening to your tutor's feedback for some was much more productive than trying to read hand written notes. The audio feedback allowed our learners to go back and rewatch/relisten which they can't do when they receive feedback in class (unless they record you). He originally trialled this with our highest learners who were Entry 3.

I also had a bash using this same technique but with the lower levels but instead of recording Word, I would scan in a piece of their handwritten work and save as a PDF. Then, I would create a screencast highlighting/ circling/ underlining certain parts and talking through their work. I found for the lower levels it was best to also film my face as I spoke so learners could see my facial expressions and my lips moving. For all learners it was a good way for them to get used to my accent and my voice as their teacher complete with regional inflections!

If you and the learners have the technology, a really good way to reuse a video like this, could be for learners to transcribe what you're saying by adding subtitles on Youtube (or writing a script on paper).

In any classroom use of screencast, consider how you can reuse the video you've created so you're economical with your production time. Even better is if your learners like using it, they could create their own. For example:

Ask learners to walk through and complete a mathematical problem on their screen. This can be added to a revision bank used with by learners in the class.

For literature explorations : ask a learner to describe a passage, highlighting phrases/sections on the screen as they go to highlight figurative language etc. You could create a reaction video or just notes (for the whole group) - but the main brunt of this activity is providing the learner with time to think and verbalise their thoughts before committing to paper.

After a learner watches your feedback they redraft their work and make another video to you explaining how they have improved it.

Ask one learner to watch another learner's video and ask them to transcribe it or interact with it in some way.

Make videos with wrong information in or missing information (like an audio version of a cloze task/gap fill) that you can reuse with other classes.

Using Screencast with colleagues
I've used Screencast with peers and colleagues mainly to visualise how to use specific technologies whether in the classroom (e.g. Padlet above!), organisational (e.g. Google Drive) or personal (e.g. how to add a signature to an email). Since working with the PDNorth team, I've began to curate these in a more organised fashion via the PDNorth Youtube. Similarly, I've heard about PDNorth professional exchanges who've created screencasts as the APs in their organisation to share on their Moodle with their colleagues. Another group made a digital learning wall in the staffroom with QR codes to Youtube videos and screencasts.

Whilst screencasting in this way and for this purpose is great for staff CPD on the go / in your own time, it's always better if the workload is shared. Whilst this is easier said than done in practice, there's always something you can learn from a colleague and there's always something you can share with another.
Screencast considerations
-You only get 15 mins! However, I think any more than this would be too long anyway and you'd lose your audience. - Whilst you can pause and resume, if you make a mistake you can't edit it out.

-The close captions/subtitles process isn't user friendly.

-You need to download a recorder which may not be possible on work computers depending on your system permissions.

-Depending on how you use it: it could just have one time use.

+ / - If using for feedback: it may be easier for the tutor to verbalise and show what they mean than write it down and it may be the best way for the learner to receive that feedback. Likewise however, tutors may find it more time consuming than writing written feedback and the learners may not give time to watching the video, not have the technology to do so or may ignore it completely.

+ It doesn't require wifi to record (once the recorder has been downloaded).

+ You have a choice of where you can upload it. Including the ability to download as a video file and share/upload however you choose (rare with free apps).

+ simple and easy to use meaning a lot of our learners are able to get on with it.

+ It can be a reusable and recyclable resource.

+ It's so personable!

+ It can be used by teachers and learners alike. I'm sure there are so many more ways than what I've tried out and I'd love to hear about all the other ways that Screencast-O-Matic has been used!

#HaveAGo

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By Chloe Hynes (PDNorth Social Media Comms) I first heard about Screencasting about 5 years ago during a small action research project being carried out at work between a few colleagues and myself. We were exploring ways of giving learners feedback that's individual to them, personalised and not following the 'one size fits all' department wide approach of the time.

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I first set up the Mr Barton Maths website back in 2007. If you find the website useful to help you teach or learn maths, please consider supporting my work by becoming a Patreon. Thanks so much!

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Distance & Remote Learning | Microsoft Education

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There are short modules on each of the following.
- COVID-19 understanding.
- Infection control
- flu and colds
Hand hygiene
- Mental health – isolation.
- Supporting working from home.

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