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Music makes students smarter - proof from the UK which has spurred them to add a comprehensive music program back into their schools.

Great game creation site

Game creation site for use with students

"Due to demand, we are delighted to announce details of our first online conference. Educators from around the world are invited to participate in this inaugural event, where the focus is on pedagogy, classroom practice, and ideas to improve teaching and learning. The event will take place over 3 days in October 2017 (24-26 October) - planned to be during the half-term holidays for most educators in the UK - but educators are also invited along to share in the incredible pedagogy that goes on in classrooms around the world."

You can get the 12 games of Christmas teaching pack for free for a single user or your whole school. Download it now and keep it to use it every year. The sample teaching pack gives you ideas for how to use the 12 games of Christmas. IF you use the games, you'll want to get this for the lesson plans.

A great site full of customisable games like 'Who wants to be a Millionaire', a darts quiz and many more. Just download and change the questions and answers in the XML file. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games

Here's another contest that may interest you. If you join TES Connect, you'll be entered to win $125US (equivalent of 100 British pounds) in Amazon vouchers. You can also download my 8th grade portfolio and other resources I've put exclusively on TES' website.

Handwriting and fine motor activities. A nice PDF document that you can find some things if you teach handwriting. Description: This resource provides a range of activities to develop fine motor skills, designed with learners with severe learning difficulties in mind. It is by no means exhaustive, but covers a range of activities to develop discrimination of left and right, hand-eye coordination, crossing the mid-line,

Join us and fellow ELT professionals from around the world to discuss, reflect on and develop ideas. The 43rd IATEFL Conference will offer many opportunities for professional contact and development. The programme offers over 400 workshops, posters, talks, panel discussions and symposiums by international presenters from over 60 countries.

Internet safety information broken down for age groups 5-7, 8-10, 11-16 with additional information for parents and teachers.

sharing improvement in learning. Any teacher or education professional can publish their own case studies using the template provided. Launched end Nov - over 60 case studies up there already.

To get started pick a subject, then an age group from the menu on the left. We've been working hard to feature the best educational resources which work well on interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The resources are organised by subject, age group and category to make them easy for you to find. We are constantly updating the web sites listed here to ensure that they are current.

With Exploratree you can: * Use our ready-made thinking guides * Make a new thinking guide from scratch * Use it to set class projects * Print them out (they can go as big as A0) * Change and customise thinking guides, you can add or change text, shapes, images etc. * As a teacher, you can set up the sequence that you want the thinking guide to be revealed in, so that you can stage the thinking activity * You can fill in a thinking guide and complete your project on the website * You can present your project * You can send your thinking guide to a whole group of people * You can submit a thinking guide for comments, so it can't be edited but just reviewed * Work in groups on the same thinking guide

thinking maps/graphic organisers. 

In our podcast directory, you can freely access a variety of educational content from over 5000 podcasts from different podcast channels, including a range of audio, enhanced and video channels to illustrate examples of "educational podcasting" to support effective teaching and learning in schools, colleges and universities.

A position which is bound to fire up educators, yet upon reading it I wondered if part of what they're saying isn't true? Perhaps it just sets up a simplistic binary that blinds teachers to the truth that we can be both interesting and effective as educators. Hard to tell.

Video Conferencing is one tool that can be used to extend and enhance the impact on * Curriculum Content and delivery * The Professional Development of school staff * The quality of leadership within schools Video Conferencing enables learners to do things that are hard or impossible to do by other means. * Collaborate easily and regularly * Be in more than one place at once * Link directly to places and resources