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03/10/2011 09:17
In a recent survey we found that teaching resources was one of the main types of information that our readers were interested to see. With this in mind we will from time to time, use this blog to showcase resource banks and good sources of teaching in formation from around the web. So with this in mind…
The Guardian newspaper’s website (guardian.co.uk) is home to the ‘Teacher Network’. This is home to thousands of free teaching and classroom resources for ages 4 – 18, and even includes a function which allows you to build your own classroom tests, allow your students to do the test online and provides a report so you can see the results easily. You can sign up for free, quickly and easily, and then are free to download or share as much as you like.
What resources are there?
As mentioned there are thousands of different resources from foreign language skills to arts and crafts for kids. They are searchable by keyword, and come in formats such as: Word document, Smartboard file, PDF, HTML and PowerPoint file. You can just look through them online, or add them to a ‘favourites’ style list of your preferred resources. Plus you can bookmark or share them through a social network like Facebook or, most importantly, download them.
You can find resources by searching…
• By age – 4-5, 5-7, 7-11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-18.
• By subjects – English, maths, science, art & design, business studies, citizenship, design & technology, drama, economics, French, geography, German, history, ICT, music, media, PE, RE and Spanish.
• By activity – audio, complete lesson pack, Guardian article, handout/worksheet, image, interactive lesson, PDF, Power Point presentation, video, web link and whiteboard activity.
What’s more, you can even download a template from which to create your own educational resources or just upload one you have already in order to share it with the Teacher Network.
Are they any good?
In addition to all this, each resource has a comments and recommendations section so before you download anything you can search for the most highly recommended items as well as read through the comments to see what people who have used it think.
To give you an example of a resource, chosen at random is a power point presentation titled: Introduction to Shakespeare. This has been recommended by 11 people and was created for ages 11-14 or 14-16.
The presentation takes students through simple Shakespearean language and the historical period, in which he lived, offers a lot of fun and engaging images and quotes throughout to keep students and teachers amused while staying on topic, gives an introduction to Shakespearean theatre: the Globe and much more.
It’s free to sign up and get access to all these great resources so why not give it a go?
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