New today -  all areas of the 5-14 Curriculum - to help with Classroom Display!

I have added a link to the maths section on my 'weblinks' page, the link will take you to www.heinemann.co.uk, where you can find information out how heinemann schemes work with curriculum for excellence.  

Thanks to Sandsplace for the feedback and a great idea for using the CfE bright display - 

Submitted by sandsplace on Tue, 29/07/2008 - 21:27.

I'm going to use these as headers for a kind of working/reflection wall. The chn will be encouraged to write things on stickies and stick under the appropriate heading. This will link to a personal 4 capacitiy sheet stored on computer. Maybe once a week the chn could transfer into to computer so there is a termly record or put stickies straight into folders - haven't quite decided.

Thanks though, they look great. 

Thank you to the visitors who have taken time to leave comments, it is nice to get feedback. You can easily leave comments and suggestions under all our free resources, we love to hear your ideas.

Today I have added a new category under  'Free Teacher Resources' - the feedback for our CfE resources has been fantastic. We have therefore created a CfE category to make it easy to find and access these resources. Today we have added display headings for the eight curriculum subjects. We hope these will be useful.

Also, please email us with any curriculum links for our improved weblinks page, we hope to build a helpful links page that in time will become a great resource for our visitors.

We hope you are all enjoying the summer holidays? You will notice our blog posts and free resources have become less frequent and hope you will understand that we are making the most of the great weather. We will get back up to speed in time to prepare you for the return to school. 

JUST ADDED -  categories for all the areas of Curriculum for Excellence to our weblinks page:

• Expressive Arts
• Health and Wellbeing
• Languages
• Mathematics
• Religious and Moral Education
• Sciences
• Social Studies
• Technologies

I am now back from two weeks off, I have found some great sites to list here and also have a selection of great new resources to upload over the coming weeks.

Recently I have been in contact with Tim from Teachshare, his website offers a great selection of free resources for Secondary Education and very useful links. The website is completely free with no subscription costs, I recommend this site and think it is well worth a visit

TeachShare.org - The Community Curriculum Project
TeachShare offer free teaching resources. Teachers from all over the world are donating their resources to build the project. The ultimate aim is to provide complete sets of all the files needed to deliver every major course in the UK, Canada, the United States and Australia. TeachShare also has a directory of the other best teaching resources sites on the web.

Booruch
Through Twitter I recently met David Noble a Chartered Teacher living in Fife. In early 2006 he was inspired by Ewan McIntosh to use new technologies to attempt to develop his teaching practice and participate in online educator communities. He runs The Access Network and a podcast directory, as well as collaborating on EdTechRoundup and providing CPD to educators - http://tinyurl.com/6q86zz.

His fortnightly education technology podcast, Booruch has, since January 2006: broadcast David's reflections on web 2.0 in education, highlighted good practice from around the world, and encouraged communication and collaboration among educators. Several of the episodes feature interviews with innovative practitioners.

I would highly recommend Twitter it has put me in contact with very interesting people, it was great to make contact with David especially as like me he teaches in Scotland and it is inspiring to hear how web 2.0 has impacted on his career. I would recommend taking some time to visit David’s websites.

Tuxpaint
I love this download and I am happy I could download it for my mac. If you have some free time I think you should download this and enjoy!

"Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
http://tuxpaint.org/"

Soungle
If you are looking for sounds – soungle is the place to visit it is easy and free to use.

"Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples on our mega online library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in our growing monster database. Our goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free."

Cheekymonkeyresources
Cheekymonkeyresources have a fantastic page listing music to suit different topics for Primary Education….a fab resource to save you time trawling the net for music.

In the future I will list more websites to help save precious time, if you have a website that you think would be relevant (especially if it has free and useful resources) and would like to see it mentioned in my blog, please email me and I will try to help. I am also happy to mention Educational websites on my weblinks page.

Thanks to Tim from Teachshare.org for the information on his site and also thanks to David for taking the time to email re Just-Teaching, I wish him well with the next podcast.

Kerry

Just added today a new resource for Curriculum for Excellence. This display would be great to laminate and add pupil names or related activities. Please email with any ideas for using this free downloadable resource.

More Curriculum for Excellence resources coming soon. Check back regularly for new classroom display resources perfect for decorating your new classroom for the next term!

We have now added the following free resource -

 Star Student Reward Pack includes - record sheet, student cards, mini certificates and 2 wall certificates.

We are having a wee break from the blog at the moment as we work behind the scenes to improve Just-Teaching and review & create new resources. we hope you are enjoying www.just-teaching.com and find the resources useful. It would be great to hear your feedback and hear how you use the resources in your classroom.

Kerry and Ross