English Teaching in the United Kingdom

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Key Organisations and Agencies

Becta's Home Page ... probably the most useful single organisation we have.

NGfL  The National Grid for Learning. Enormous site, difficult to navigate, but well worth the effort. This sheet aims to provide:

• an introduction to Information Technology (IT), also known as Information and Communications Technology (ICT), with relevance to the English National Curriculum
• an indication of how IT might be used in the English classroom and further ideas for IT activities
• an indication of further sources of information and contact details.

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The Standards Site: Gender and Achievement  

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ADPRIMA Education Information Menu The ADPRIMA site has descriptions of many things that new teachers and education students need to "know" about - teaching, learning, thinking, planning, curriculum, instruction, students, classroom management, lesson planning, and dealing with parents, to name but a few.

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This site links every National Curriculum programme of study requirement to high-quality, relevant teaching resources. There are hundreds of  resources here, including QCA/DfES scheme of work units and QCA exemplification.

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The QCA Website

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Welcome to the DfEE Web Site

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BBC Education - The Book Case

Welcome to SCET   The Scottish equivalent of BECTa - very useful resources and advice.

SCRAN Home SCRAN presents Scotland's history and culture. It is fully searchable. Use the pad to navigate. Enhanced materials are available to educational users.

AQA Temporary Home Page

English On-Line ..the New Zealand pages.

Pin Home Page

Parents' Information Network PIN is an independent organisation established in 1994 to provide information and advice to parents about the role of computers in their children's education.

BBC Pages

BBC Online - Radio 4 BBC Schools Online

BBC Education - 20CVox Oral History

BBC Schools Online

BBC Education Learning Zone - Masterclass

BBC Education - The Book Club The Book Case is the home for literature and literacy on the BBC Education web site. It contains many BBC literary web sites like Book Worm, A Brief History of Books, Hamlet, National Poetry Day and Centurions as well as many features including; science fiction, romantic fiction and crime writing.