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A little gem Jo Boaler First chapter of The elephant in the room.

"This paper introduces the work of a group of equity-oriented teachers in an inner city school in California, who brought about amazing progress in mathematics. The teachers used an approach called 'Complex Instruction', to bring about high achievements and great enjoyment of mathematics among students." Jo Boaler now at Sussex

What does it take to create effective e-learning? Mr G's Blog

Good description of Game.

The project involved two main components, each designed to explore different aspects of the emerging arena for large-scale pedagogic innovation around ESD: 1. A review of international practice was carried out to take perspective on institution-wide curriculum change initiatives in ESD and in other values-based and holistic approaches to teaching and learning. 2. Three case studies were developed of leading UK HEIs with ESD initiatives to shift organisational culture and practice for sustainability, to gain insights from their experiences in curriculum change.

Primary Schools can sign up and try for free until Oct 2014 Well worth a look. Currently won't work with Firefox, being sorted.

A brief intro to managing your inner chimp.

Ian McGhilchrist, psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

a personal collection of writing from the ex-director of the Swiss ESD schools "Champion" Jan 2014 "Do we know what we are doing..." a free pdf file SOME VERY POWERFUL STUFF!

Worth a look, 4 pillars and flexibility sounds hopeful. forward looking. Response to New Maths Curriculum.

"The NCETM portal reflects the Centre's commitment to personal learning."

"This collection of 60 short videos, filmed in a range of school classrooms in 2012 and 2013, shows teaching, and learning, in line with the three overall aims of the new National Curriculum. These aims are that pupils should develop fluency, reason mathematically and be able to solve problems."

"A programme to encourage and enable a generation of young people to create rather than just use technology."

"Our goal is to transform the way technology is taught in schools; to empower students from all backgrounds to seize the opportunities of our digital age and create solutions to the problems they care about, using technology."

A major new Primary Maths resource base for English National Curriculum for 2014 is being developed. Y1, 2, 5, & 6 are available. Yr4 being added as will Yr 3. Coherent and extensive materials including developing your own subject knowledge.

Does what it says on the tin

A great source of many versions of LOGO. Huge sets of resources, books some free online.

infographic on infographics.

Our main objective is to provide children with an effective learning tool to assist them in mastering the art of problem solving. We aim to cover a wide range of topics and methods so that every lesson is a journey of discovery.

Model drawing. A great way to solve maths problems.