Category: SIOE
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Is there a role for universities in developing Early Years services? A reflection after two years of South Yorkshire Futures
Sally Pearse, Strategic Lead for Early Years for South Yorkshire Futures at Sheffield Hallam University. My background in the early years has been driven by my belief that high-quality early years provision and services are a vehicle for social justice and transforming children’s outcomes. However, since moving full-time into Higher Education lecturing at Sheffield Hallam […]
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Supporting the region’s STEM teachers: Professional learning built on collaboration, enquiry, innovation and trust
The Wipro Teacher Fellow and Teacher Mentor Programme is an evidence-based, individualised programme of professional learning designed to improve primary and secondary teachers’ confidence, motivation and capability in one or more of the STEM subjects.
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The Real Honour
As a newly announced recipient of an OBE for ‘Services to Higher Education’ I am experiencing a strange mix of emotions and questions. The biggest emotion other than embarrassment is sadness that my mum died last year and won’t get to be there when I pick it up. The biggest question is to wonder why […]
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In Defence of Alchemy – thoughts on the future of student engagement
Over tea the other night my husband, a maths teacher in Sheffield, told the story of his last period of the day with his nightmare Year 10 class. Suffice to say, seating plans had failed, engagement with the magic of number had not occurred and at one point a desk had been thrown. Inevitably, after […]
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Marking to fail or facilitating success? Could understanding marking improve how feedback is perceived?
I was recently team-teaching and my colleague was speaking to our students about how they should use the Module Learning Outcomes and Pass Descriptors to inform their work and used the phrase “allowing you to experience success”. There was a slight buzz of conversation in the room and I overheard a few students muttering ‘I […]
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Are we getting left behind with 21st century literacies?
I was recently at the European COST network meeting in Cyprus on ‘The digital literacy and multimodal literacy practices of young children’. The event was attended by delegates from over thirty countries and the network promises to provide a valuable and much-needed forum for synthesising and sharing research related to young children’s digital lives. The […]
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An alternative perspective on the physics teacher shortage
At present there are two issues in physics education making media headlines. The first, the critical shortage of specialist physics teachers in England; the second, the persistently low number of girls choosing A level physics. Is it possible that these two, seemingly separate issues might, in fact be linked and that by making inroads into […]
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The perfect role model; beyond the usual suspects
The adage, “it takes a village to raise a child” has rarely been more apt than in its application to current educational setting. Schools are more influential in the social development of children than ever before and the need for powerful role models both inside and outside of the classroom is of critical importance. But […]
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Academic referencing: Wikipedia, Lenny Henry and the future of academic sources
Outside my university I was met with an advert for a fast food chain which was clearly focused on the student population. The advert boldly stated ‘you’re not allowed to use Wikipedia as an essay reference’. A statement which initially raised a smile in me but got me thinking, while ten years ago I would […]
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Universities, schools and a system in flux – looking back on Carter and looking forward to the future of Initial Teacher Education in England
Sam Twiselton (Director Sheffield Institute of Education) had the below entry posted on the BERA Blog in September 2015: In 2014 I was part of the Carter Review of ITT – an experience that was rewarding, intense and often stressful. I met a student teachers, mentors, heads, university and school based tutors, NQTs and RQTs; […]