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Cori Belle, USA, Primary, Literacy, Reading, WritingI love to read and write and am passionate about teaching kids. I taught first grade for four years. Though I am currently taking a break from teaching to raise my family, my desire is to help teachers make sense of current trends in reading and writing and to provide some thoughts on how to merge these ideas with existing teaching practices.Growing Readers and WritersIncreasing the capacity of teachers to provide high quality literacy instruction.

Xinyu Li, China, SecondaryTeacher of Information Technology.mingxiao's blogFocusing on media and educational technology.Theme: web2.0 tools, media and software applications, social learning

Big deal you might say, which is exactly what I said at first until I realized that Twitter was going to be the most powerful tool in my Professional Learning Network. A way in which I can share with others who in turn share with me, converse with me over interesting concepts in education and help shape my thoughts on the goings on in the education world and life itself.

The key features of the primary curriculum put forward by this Review are: Recognising the continuing importance of subjects and the essential knowledge, skills and understanding they represent. Providing a stronger focus on curriculum progression. Strengthening the focus on ensuring, that by the age of seven, children have a secure grasp of the literacy and numeracy skills they need to make good progress thereafter.  Strengthening the teaching and learning of ICT to enable them to be independent and confident users of technology by the end of primary education. Providing a greater emphasis on personal development through a more integrated and simpler framework for schools.  Building stronger links between the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. in offering exciting opportunities for learning languages for 7-11 year olds.