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The Educator - Offers assessment help and discussion forums
HTI National Leadership Centre - Improving leadership skills in schools by helping to form links between schools and business organisations. Lists products and services and contact details.
Development Education Project - A site for teachers on global and development education. It includes details of resources, online activities, links to other sites. There is a focus on Global Express: world events in the news.
Frustrated Teachers - Ideas, resources and publications for those disillusioned with the teaching profession.
Teaching Resource - Offers a mix of advice, links and materials for teachers.
SATIPS - Provide professional support for staff in independent schools.
Sportsteacher - Information service for all teachers of PE. Regular updates on health and fitness, inclusion, professional development, travel. Includes lesson planning facility.
School Forums UK - An open school forum for teachers and parents, with information on jobs, ITC, keystage issues, government, tuition for teachers and children support.
Head Support - An educational consultancy providing support for all who have an interest in helping schools to improve, local education authorities, governors, head teachers, teachers educational charities and educational trusts. Lists latest news and contact details.
Helen France Associates - Helps in the design and development of National Occupational Standards, vocational qualifications, assessment strategies, assessment systems.
The ELT Newsletter - A web forum for English teachers. Includes weekly articles and a discussion board.
Smarter Learning - Consultancy offering educational training by Bob Marshall, who was a secondary head for 14 years. Lists resources, course details and contact information.
Education Horizons - Organises conferences for headteachers and school governors.
DIST - Distance In-Service Training for non-native speaker teachers of English.
film-media-resources - Resources and links for teachers of media studies in further education. Includes film, music industry and tv.
City and Guilds - Guide to Key Skills. For all those involved in the administration, teaching and assessment of Key Skills.
Guild of Educators - A charitable institution with the object of developing the process of learning and its management in schools, colleges, universities, and the workplace. Lists aims and objects, links, membership and contact details.
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education - Independent body. Reviews the performance of universities and colleges of higher education. Audit reports available online.
International Study Programmes - Arranges courses for overseas teachers of English, holiday language courses and a wide variety of tailor-made educational visits to Britain.
ROSES - General teaching resources for teachers using Risc-OS computers.
ETA - Education and Training Academy - Resources for teachers, professors, students, parents, life long learners; and self development.
Under 12s Exhibition - Site dedicated to meeting the needs of nursery and primary teachers.
Youth Sport Resource Centre - News and resources for teachers, coaches, and parents involved in youth sport, physical education, and children's physical activity and fitness.
MarkChrisSoft - Contains material of interest to teachers, as well as some which is specifically aimed at IT specialists. Includes a crossword program for teachers, specifically designed for use in all subject areas.
TELRI Technology Enhanced Learning in Research-Led Institutions - Encouraging academic staff in HE to use learning technology to develop student critical thinking, expertise and transferable skills.
Institute for Learning and Research Technology - A national centre of excellence in the development and use of technology-based methods in teaching, learning and research.
Minds Together - Education programmes and services for Inclusion, Gifted, Talented, Mentor training and teacher recruitment.
The Learning Curve - Educational website of the UK Government's National Archive, the PRO. Designed for teachers and students, it contains original sources from extracts from the Domesday book to the Instrument of Abdication. Part of the National Grid for Learning.
UK teacher stress - Information for teachers, managers and governors about teacher stress symptoms, causes, treatment and avoidance. Also sources of help, information and advice.
Science Education - Designed for use by trainee and practising teachers, and others with an interest in science education. They give access to a number of organisations who are also involved in science education.
DfES School Organisation Website and Forum - Provides information about changes to the local organisation of schools. Includes plan production, news, FAQ, forum, and sections for the public, promoters and proposers, decision makers and school governors.
TeacherNet - The UK government gateway for educational professionals. Offers teaching and learning resources, management tools, career advice, research and an education overview.
The Teaching Awards - Programme that aims to highlight excellence and to encourage best practice in teaching. Includes awards procedure, winners, news, FAQ and photo gallery.
Teachers UK - Chat room and message board for teachers and prospective teachers.
Croner's Edinfo Centre - Provides comprehensive coverage of UK educational issues for teachers, heads and governors. Features, legislation tracker and free e-newsletters available.
Fast Track Teaching - UK Government programme for the professional development of teachers who have the potential to be future leaders in education. Sections for teachers and schools, job broking, e-portfolio and online community.
British Ecological Society: Information for Teachers - Promotes good ecological education at all levels from the primary school to university. Includes newsletter, information and guidance, curriculum resources and careers information.
The Standards Site: Specialist Schools - DfES information about the Specialist Schools Programme, which helps schools establish distinctive identities through their chosen specialisms. Includes categories, guidance, good practice, FAQ, and directory.
Talking Teaching - Best practice forum. Includes online community, resources, reports, articles, diaries and tips written by teachers for teachers.
VTC: Virtual Teacher Centre - Service for schools professionals providing news, support for professional development and resource search across the National Grid for Learning.
Bag2School - Fund raising clothing collection scheme for schools. Includes details, registration form, and games. [Requires Flash]
The National Schools Observatory - Offers access to professional telescopes worldwide for observations made by school children and teachers. Includes sections for teachers and young observers.
Mailing lists at CfBT - Offers mailing list service to schools and teachers to share best practice. Includes documentation and lists.
The School Web Site - Offers information for teacher's building a website for their department or school.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Teaching and Administration "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Teaching and Administration Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Teaching and Administration It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Teaching and Administration For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Teaching and Administration Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Teaching and Administration The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Teaching and Administration I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Teaching and Administration "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Teaching and Administration Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Teaching and Administration Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Teaching and Administration Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Teaching and Administration Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Teaching and Administration Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Teaching and Administration My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Teaching and Administration By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Teaching and Administration "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Teaching and Administration Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Teaching and Administration Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Teaching and Administration The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Teaching and Administration This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Teaching and Administration He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Teaching and Administration
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