Technology to support teaching and learning
A brief overview of what’s on offer from Google, Microsoft and Facebook to support remote teaching and learning both during the current COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Main Tag: English
TED-Ed
TED-Ed offers an extensive library of original video lessons on a wide range of topics, and provides an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons. It’s free to use.
The Skills Toolkit
The Skills Toolkit gives people access to free digital and numeracy courses to help build up their skills, progress in work and boost their job prospects.
OTLA English and maths 2020
A team led by ccConsultancy has secured funding from the Education and Training Foundation to support action research projects that focus on approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in English and maths.
Zone In
This free online platform from the National Literacy Trust offers weekly activities and resources that will help young people build new skills and improve their literacy.
Inspiration for post-16 English teaching from practitioner research
This booklet, which showcases reports of 12 collaborative action research projects that have produced inspiring ideas for post-16 English teaching, is available to download from the Excellence Gateway.Â
OTLA English projects
This booklet contains summaries of 12 projects which researched new approaches for teaching English in the post-16 sector.
Estimating and Ranking in FE
Jonathan Kay, Head of English and Maths at an FE College in the north of England, writes on the challenges of estimating GCSE grades and ranking learners, especially in the context of large cohorts. How do you collect assessment evidence? And how do you rank 5000+ learners?
The AP Toolkit
The AP Toolkit aims to support those operating in Advanced Practitioner (AP)-types roles across the sector, and consists of a set of five guides and a set of development cards.
#APConnect Live Event 2020Â
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in 2020, our Conference plans had to change, and so #APConnect Live was born!
Evaluation of the AP Programme 2020
The evaluation of the AP Programme 2020 is almost complete, and the final report will be released very soon. In the meantime, we’d like to sign off with a reminder of all that has been achieved over the last two years of the programme.
BBC Skillswise
The BBC Skillswise website has a collection of free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve their reading, writing and numeracy skills.