Teachers doing science

A really exciting two teacher days with groups in Leicester.

The first session being held at Leicester University for a whole cluster development group of teachers and TAs all coming together away from their schools to gain inspiration and to focus on developing ideas for innovative science - ICT was only part of it - there was a lovely session of sherbert making and how you get it to fizz and if you could use that to make fizzy chocolate !!

The second session in a local primary school, again with teachers and TAs, to look at the use of their new interactive whiteboards with a focus on how the technology can support and enhance science teaching ( and all the spin offs for the many, many other things)



For each of the sessions a specific blog was created to support access to web sites to make things easy during the sessions but with the addition that these could also be used by the schools at any later date.The first being a general set of science sites and the second being tailored to a specific context of term one. The implication here was that schools could easily build their own blogs to support specific projects or subjects and could use these to share with other teachers or could be used by the children to continue work out of school.The blogs were not public and comments were moderated before publication.


This was an entirely new idea to all on both days and leads me to believe that sessions just to develop it will be needed.... all said how useful it was to have quick and simple access to sites which had been preliminarily reviewed. Of course, the usual saftey messages were given out and this gave some food for thought. The message was, however, that the positives should win and the negatives should be a part of an online education process for all users, teahcer, TAs, pupils and parents alike.