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Good teaching practice and resources

PUBLISHED: 20/01/2021

Good teaching practice and resources

Remote education resources, including lessons from Oak National Academy, as well as guidance, lesson plans and webinars on teaching remotely.

Schools

Guidance

A sector-led remote education good practice guide to support school leaders in developing remote education contingency plans.

Guidance on adapting teaching practice for remote education .

The Education Endowment Foundation Covid-19 support guide for schoolsincludes information on how to support effective remote education.

Resources and curriculum support

Example lesson plans shared by schools to help teachers adapt their classroom practice for remote education.

All key stages

Video and interactive lessons from Oak National Academy for reception up to year 11 to support remote education.

Primary and secondary resources from BBC Bitesize for teachers and pupils.

Computing

Teach Computing helps you discover training, resources and guidance to support you in teaching computing with confidence. Computing hubs offer local, tailored support to schools and colleges to improve the teaching of computing and increase participation in computer science.

Maths

Advanced Mathematics Support Programme aims to increase participation and improve teaching in level 3 maths qualifications.

The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics provides materials and guidance to help schools adapt maths teaching for pupils being educated both remotely and in the classroom.

Maths Hubs bring together maths professionals in a collaborative national network of 40 hubs, each led locally by an outstanding school or college, to develop excellent practice.

Music

Music Education Hubs bring together local authorities, schools and art, community or voluntary organisations to make sure all pupils have access to music education.

Relationships, sex, and health education

Support and training materials for schools to help train teachers on relationships, sex, and health education.

Early Years

Resources from Hungry Little Minds, including simple and fun activities for children (from newborn to age five) that can be shared with parents.

Primary Schools

English

English Hubs offer support (resources and training) to eligible, local schools, including local authority maintained schools, academies and free schools. This is to improve teaching of phonics, early language and reading in reception and year 1.

Secondary schools

Citizenship

The Deliberative Classroom is a project to support teachers to lead knowledge-based discussions and debates with students on topical issues relating to fundamental British values, citizenship and equality.

Modern foreign languages

The National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP) works in partnership with university researchers, teacher educators, expert practitioners, and 18 specialist teachers in 9 leading schools across the country. These form language hubs to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy. Support includes professional development tools, teaching resources and workshops.

Science

Isaac Physics is an online platform that offers support and physics problem solving activities to students transitioning from GCSE to sixth-form college, and progressing to university. It also helps to reduce teacher workload.

Institute of Physics provides free, bespoke support for teachers of physics to increase the take-up of A level physics, particularly by girls.

Science Learning Partnerships improve science teaching, including facilitating continuous professional development and providing support for schools to increase the take-up of GCSE triple science.

Accessing and buying resources for remote education

Help with accessing and buying resources for remote education.

Webinars

DfE school-led webinars

The DfE is offering several school-led webinars on remote education to help share good practice.

EdTech Demonstrator webinars

The EdTech Demonstrator programme helps schools and colleges with support for remote education. Their webinars can support schools that are looking for help to improve the quality of their remote provision in line with the expectations set out in the guidance on restricting attendance during the national lockdown. Webinars include:

See all of EdTech's upcoming events on their website

Guidance

Guidance on how FE colleges can use the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund and the adult education budget to help students overcome financial barriers to participation in remote education.

Support

Support in using educational technology and developing online teaching skills from the Education and Training Foundation

Resources

Digital content and resources are available from organisations funded by DfE, including Jisc and World Skills UK.

DfE has also funded colleges to produce a range of content for the FE sector. The content consists of free, Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant resources for use across the FE curriculum.

Health, public and social care