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Professional Development
The videos in this collection from teachers TV are intended for primary science practitioners. They contain advice and guidance on pedagogy, lesson planning, organising science in and out of the classroom and other areas of teaching and learning. They are useful to both newly qualified and experienced teachers.
Clips in this section cover a wide range of topics, including:
* teaching and reviewing investigations into the human body and movement, sound and light
* planning a visit
* engaging girls with practical science
* talk and discussion in primary science
* moving from a good to an outstanding practitioner
* looking at a lesson from a child's perspective
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Wowing the Parents with Practical Science
This video, from Teachers TV, takes a look at the ideas and initiatives which helped Monteney Primary School gain specialist science status.
One successful idea was enlisting parents to help in science lessons.
As well as allowing the children to show off their learning, this approach includes the...
The Role of Talk
Produced by Teachers TV, primary educators demonstrate how they have encouraged dialogue in their Key Stage Two science lessons.
Nicky Waller, an advisory science teacher in Durham, goes through a lesson inspired by the Children Challenge Industry Project. This relates science to real life companies and...
Engaging Girls with Practical Science
Produced by Teachers TV, this video takes a look at the work Skyswood Primary School in St Albans in trying to encourage girls to enjoy science.
When the staff at the school gave the children an annual questionnaire about subjects, they were alarmed to discover that while 70% of boys loved science, only...
Light: Lesson Review
In this Teachers TV programme Jane Turner, deputy director of the Science Learning Centre, (East of England), and Helen Ackerman, an NQT (Newly Qualified Teacher), review a science lesson Helen taught to her Year One class on light.
They discuss the range of activities carried out in class and their...