""People have heart's ease when they're on their own country. If you force them off that country, if you take them away from their land, they feel the loss of heart's ease as a kind of vertigo, a disintegration of their whole life.""
"Teaching with PEEP\n\nThe following resources have been put together to support teachers in managing discussion based lessons and to suggest sources of useful information for planning lessons."
"Ofsted visited 14 schools over a three-year period to evaluate how effectively they had developed pupils' understanding of sustainability and whether education for sustainable development had any impact on improving the broader life of the school. Over three years all but one of the schools improved the overall effectiveness of their provision for sustainable development, with a wide range of positive consequences. "
"YouTube science lessons
Science lessons can be fun and creative as well as educational. A new campaign called Your Science showcases five exciting science experiments filmed in schools around the country to establish the nation's favourite."
"You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and
adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in
comparison to those who have power?"
Information Technology in Teacher Education site
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This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects.From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.
There is a growing number of acadmics and researchers (faculty and students) engaging with Transition Initiatives and Transition Network. Initially, their work was typically around community involvement in sustainability. Latterly, we're seeing more niche type research into, for example, economic areas such as local complementary currencies.
Learning Score is an alternative take on lesson planning. A multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line. Use it for planning, for reflection, or as a upgrade to powerpoint since you can embed any resources you want to use into the visual plan itself. Whole lessons can be saved with all their resources and annotations for later use and sharing.
The site for leaders and managers of educational ICT. Articles, free stuff, newsletter - all relating to the embedding of ICT and Web 2.0 into education.
Retired teacher and teacher educator. Developing website on "Sustainable Education", ESD, ESDGC ... for ESCalate at http://esd.escalate.ac.uk
Buddhist, grandpa, saxophonist...