Preschool pedagogy and professional development resources

This is a PPT presentation that started the staff journey into thinking more about differentiation in their classrooms. After the PPT i asked them to get into the subject departments and choose 3 different ways and trial them in the first half term and report back at the next staff meeting.

Help students develop positive relationships. This resource encourages students to consider their relationship with their friends. Are they influenced by their friends? Do they have positive relationships? Can they improve their friendships? Included is a questionnaire which helps students analyse the type of friendships that they have. Also included are discussion starting points and prompts to encourage reflection. Suitable for PSHE lessons, form time .... or any time when you feel that students could benefit from considering their relationship with their peers.

Supplemental low-tech music book for common nursery rhymes. Assistive in development of language for children with delayed speech development, speech support, music therapy, Early Intervention and non-verbal children seeking ways to participate in preschool classroom music time. Inside you'll find appropriate age adjustments for each activity. Suggestions on what parents can do at home are also provided. Please note that recordings are not included, the book is for teacher use only, with permission to print out for parents of your own classroom students. All recordings can be found in multiple places, including online, for free. These activities are great for transitioning between other activities, circle time or music time! Suggested use of each chant and song is learning one per week so children become familiar with steady beat, whole body movement and musical awareness. If following the suggested planning, this book will provide 42 lessons. This product includes the following nursery songs: 1. Hello Everybody 2. The More We Get Together 3. Tingalayo 4. Sweetly Sings the Donkey 5. Trot, Little Horsey 5. Carnival of the Animals - Donkeys (Saint-Saens) 6. There's a Cobbler Down the Street 7. See How I'm Jumping 8. All Around the Garden 9. Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush 10. Aeolian Lullaby 11. Trot, Trot to Boston 12. Roly Poly 13. Sometimes I'm Very Small 14. Roll the Ball Around the Room 15. John the Rabbit 16. Stone Soup (Story with optional improvised singing) 17. Carnival of the Animals - Aquarium (Saint-Saens) 18. Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Story with Low, Middle, High voices) 19. A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea 20. Carnival of the Animals - Fossils 21. Head and Shoulders, Baby 22. Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes 23. Two Little Eyes 24. Soft Voices, Loud Voices 25. Baby Bear Sits on the Chair 26. Going on a Treasure Hunt 27. Bye-Lo, Baby Oh! 28. Peas Porridge Hot 29. Carnival of the Animals - Lion (Saint-Saens) 30. Higglety Pigglety Pop 31. Batti Le Manine 32. Que Linda Manita 33. Diddlety, Diddlety, Dumpty 34. Dickery Dickery Dare 35. This Kitty Said 36. From Wibbleton to Wobbleton 37. Soft Kitty 38. Carnival of the Animals - Elephant (Saint-Saens) 39. Pizza, Pickle, Pumpernickel 40. Paw Paw Patch This product requires moderate assembly after purchase including binding or laminating if desired. I recommend use of heavy card stock paper to lengthen life of materials. All designs and finished products are property of Kristen L. Galardi

These teaching and learning CPD sessions offer engaging and original approaches to introducing or revisiting a range of effective pedagogical strategies. Grounded in educational research, these sessions are interactive, well-structured, and have been successfully tried and tested. The aim of each teaching and learning CPD session is to develop the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed in order to utilise in practice in each key area, and as an aid in achieving these aims, the trainer is supported with: -Colourful, engaging, and comprehensive PowerPoint presentations; -Videos for analysis of key techniques; -A wide range of interactive resources for CPD activities; -Instructions and plans to assist delivery. All images and videos are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of each PowerPoint.

Complete suite of Gap Analysis grids for the 2016 & 2017 KS1 SATs. Reading, Maths and GPS papers for each year plus links to the matching assessments. Please read each resources page for a more detailed breakdown of the contents.

I delivered this CPD session to all members of our staff team who maintain regular contact with parents and other stakeholders, in a bid to improve the quality, accuracy, and clarity of our written communications. I'd recommend that the session takes about 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes to deliver. We had received some negative feedback comments, regarding our communications, varying from examples of poor grammatical accuracy, to instances in which the tone of emails, letters, and other forms of correspondence were perceived as rude. It is surprising how common this is across schools, and how little training is provided on these forms of interaction. Following this training, we are receiving far fewer complaints, and many staff members now keep the help-sheets pinned up by the desks to refer to when communicating with parents. Participants learn through: - Participating in a fun pub-style quiz to eradicate common spelling, punctuation, and grammar misconceptions and errors; - Considering the role of parents, their needs and interests, and what they expect from their child's school, as a means to understand why schools sometimes receive difficult communications; - Reading and analysing examples of poor written correspondence, considering how both the tone and the accuracy can be improved; - Exploring different language strategies to create a personal, polite tone within emails, by considering the connotations of different words; - Taking away help sheets that can be referred to whenever written communications are being drafted. The resource pack includes: - Colourful and engaging whole-session PowerPoint presentation ; - Examples of written communications for participants to analyse; - Quiz answer sheet; - Accurate Written Communication help-sheet; - Polite Written Communication help-sheet. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide. (Please note that the only section of the PowerPoint that you may wish to modify is with regards to the distinct features of parents at your own school - Aside from this, the resources are good to go!)

CPD sessions and behaviour management lessons for setting your expectations high. Teaching and Learning tools, target setting and behaviour management resources suitable for KS3/4 teachers. Includes: 1. A fully resourced lesson putting the responsibility on students for thier behaviour, achievement and self management. 2. A target setting lesson focusing on goal setting which can be applied to any subject. 3. A CPD training session on how to use seating plans to their full capacity to improve behaviour management. 4. A hands on CPD training session on engaging all students with a focus on the often overlooked, quieter students. 5. A CPD training session on engaging the most able students in your classes. 6. Fun praise postcards for your students when they successfully stick to your rules. I will be adding to this bundle as I create more so if you purchase it do check back occasionally for the free updates you receive. You can find many more inexpensive and free Whole School, PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

CPD/ training: Engaging all students part 1 - the quiet ones - session (lasts 45mins -1 hour with time for questions) a detailed 3 step guide with activities throughout. Interesting and hands on training session, suitable for NQTs or as a refresher for any teachers. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

CPD: Teaching and Learning Training session (lasts 30 mins ish with time for questions) a detailed 5 step guide to getting the most out of your most able / gifted and talented students. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

Learn all the secrets to running a successful Early Years provision! • You will get a practical based online course developed for people working in Early Childhood education or hoping to set up an Early Years business or pursue a career in Early Years provision. • You can use and keep a comprehensive manual designed for committed proprietors, Head teachers, Early Years’ Leaders and Practitioners with examples of exemplary practice found in successful settings • You will develop an in-depth knowledge of the specific requirements for undertaking an Early Years’ practitioner role and offers valuable insight into the key responsibilities. You will be able to acquire the knowledge, skills and strategies that are pivotal in achieving excellence in early years’ provision! Contains samples of work of children from different ability levels, activity workbooks with suggested responses which assists practitioners to check, reflect and explore how they would use acquired skills and knowledge in their practice. It contains the following modules: Part 1 Module 1: The Key roles of an Early Years Practitioner Module 2: How to create a vibrant learning environment Module 3: How to create a comprehensive profile of the children in your care Part 2 Module 1: How to plan exciting activities that fire children’s imagination and build curiosity Module 2: How to support and extend children’s learning through positive adult interaction Module 3: How to track progress and use the outcome of assessment to identify next steps for children’s learning Part 3 Module 1: What are the most effective ways of communicating with parents and involving them in their children’s learning? Module 2: How to ensure robust performance management and maintain excellence Module 3: How to ensure effective self-evaluation and review of the quality of provision

This display uses the context of Algorithms (in the computing curriculum) to demonstrate the process of learning a new skill. This can be referred to in class to boost resilience, independent learning (the 'find help' instruction could refer to teacher, but also peers, books, research etc), but also to remind, refresh and teach the importance of the clear, precise and chronological nature of algorithms. It can also be a teaching point for decision diamonds, and how they only ever have 2 outcomes (yes, no). Included in the download is a picture of what it looks like, and the master file with all the parts separate for you to edit/ print. Let me know if it works for you! (You may need to download the free font "VCT Scream it loud 2" if you want it to edit the word doc, otherwise just use the pdf!)

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANNE FRANK LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key people and relationships, settings, and themes,understanding language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.