international education

The best and worst of international teaching

Love the adventure, develop cultural understanding, extend your teaching skills, but miss your family. That’s what teachers who have been teaching overseas for several years are telling new recruits to international teaching.

A Route to Curriculum Success

Outstanding school of the year in the 2009 League Tables of English Primary Schools was Hampstead Norreys CE Primary School in West Berkshire. Headteacher Alex Butler credits the school’s adoption of the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) for the achievement. Here she talks to Teaching Times about the school’s route to success...

IGCSE rejected for state schools

The Government has rejected the use of some IGCSEs in state schools for under-16s because it does not meet the requirements of the curriculum in the key subjects of English maths, science and ICT. Government funding has been given for nine other subjects but not the core subjects.

essential reading

Independent Science Challenges:Fascinating Science Projects to Challenge and Extend Students

This is an excellent science resource that incorporates a high-level, thinking skills approach to over 40 interesting and sometimes controversial topics.

Knowledge And Understanding Of The World

Knowledge and Understandingof the World contains over 150activity ideas, grouped by topic, forteaching scientific exploration andinvestigation, beginning technologyand information technology, a sense of time and place, and an awareness of other cultures and beliefs.