I think it is mad that the government don't provide lesson plans as part of the national curriculum - as you say thousands of teachers are doing exactly the same work all over the country assembling what they need to present for a lesson, when they should be focusing on *how* to best present the information specifically for their students. There are some commercial offering for lesson plans - but it has to be a good thing for teachers to have a free shared resource.
Go for it... I am messing around with http://www.wikidot.com/ at the moment - only wiki I have used, so can't compare - but seems pretty straight forward so far - work in progress... http://ovingdean.wikidot.com/ I am hoping to get some printed docs/training together (quick start guide for new editors). Paul /)/+) 2009/9/20 Andrew Bailey <[email protected]> > My gf's a primary school teacher and from what I hear they could do with > a means of sharing lesson planning material. They have to produce > planning material for each lesson in the week. They'll either work > together in each year or together. Generally the material is created > from scratch with images gathered from the net. The younger teachers > will create either powerpoint or smartboard files. They will then use > the same files next year around probably with some mild modification. So > their effort reduces slightly year on year but they're essentially > working alone when they could be sharing resources on a more national > level. > > The daft thing is that there's no central source for them to share these > files. I think they could do with some wiki and file storage mechanism > that handled the resources. It would need some categorisation of > subjects, year groups and lesson objectives which all sounds like tags > to me. > > There is a website that does try tackle this area - > www.primaryresources.co.uk but there's no push from management to use it > and suffers from looking like a geocities site and probably a lack of > coverage. > > I'd appreciate any thoughts where to stick this further - if I should be > waiting for an idea comp to come along, or try mailing my mp or dept. of > education. [ha] > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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