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Du 36ème étage d’un édifice, à 500 verges de distance de la tour nord du world trade center, Bob et Bri ont capté l’incident sur vidéo. Ils partagent maintenant avec nous ces images. Je crois que ce vidéo n’avait pas été diffusé avant cette année. Les auteurs avaient le sentiment que le contenu de ce vidéo était de nature trop personnel pour être publié. Cependant, ils ont maintenant la conviction que pour le bien de l’histoire, ils devaient le publier maintenant, 5 ans plus tard. C’est un témoignage de ce qui est arrivé par des gens qui étaient présent lors de cette horrible journée du 11ème jour de septembre, 2001. On assiste à la fébrilité de la réponse des autorités et à l’effondrement des deux tours. L’effondrement de la tour nord est particulièrement impressionnante car le nuage de poussière envahit complètement l’horizon et rejoint leur appartement. Avis aux québécois, on voit aussi la banderolle www.quebecnewyork.com. Très touchant. Auteur : OMEGAMAN : 911 WTC 9/11 NEW-YORK TERRORISME ATTENTAT EFFONDREMENT TWIN TOWERS Envoyé : 14 septembre 2006A treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma gives patients a new option when current therapies fail.Recovery time is faster and less painful for patients with oral cancer thanks to anew robotic surgery...A life-saving drug for people with diabetes helped some recover from a heart attack.Multiple sclerosis can steal memory as well as the ability to walkA tiny metal device could replace extensive surgery for millions of patients with a painful back condition.A new way to test for retitinitis pigmentosa could help doctors diagnose the vision-destroying disease...Now, there is a new way to mend ribs faster and with less pain and deformity.Silverstein, one of the bands many people looked forward to on Warped, are writing a new record. Find out where they write, and what they thought of the tour.Kay Burley talks frankly to the Chancellor about his ambitions for the future and the well documented relationship with Tony Blair.The magazine series helping to improve the school environment. Here presenter Sharon Wright and the All Change team work with the staff, parents and students at a Primary School in Birmingham to transform a sparse outdoor entrance. Designer Marco da Cruz provides a new outdoor area that welcomes all visitors to the school by creating a new decking area and planting shrubs and herbs. This space will also double as an outdoor learning space.We also visit Walsall Academy, an exciting new school with a design tailored towards its specialism in ICT, and look at the futuristic design for a primary school from architects Cottrell and Vermeulen.Sue Cowley works with Baz Barrett, a Year 3 teacher at Ward End Primary School in Birmingham. Like many teachers at the beginning of their career, Baz is aiming for his young class to co-operate and work together, when he asks them to carry out group work activities.We observe a group work session in Baz's classroom. Some of the children find it difficult to work in groups. Sue watches the lesson back with Baz, and they discuss how to facilitate more productive group work activities and help prevent any misbehaviour.Sue provides a range of strategies as they discuss how to reduce the inappropriate behaviour that arises from the children during group work.As a non-fiction genre, travel writing offers an excellent way in to understanding how texts work in the real world, and particularly, the ways in which they can fulfil more than one purpose. In this programme, English teacher Ava Houris, from Parliament Hill School for Girls in North London, teaches travel writing in preparation for the reading and writing requirements of the GCSE English exam. In conversation with consultant, Barbara Bleiman, of the English and Media Centre, Ava explores ways of going beyond the most basic features of text types, audiences and purposes, and uses a range of practical classroom strategies - such as graphic methods of planning, modeling writing and analysing real texts - to help students be more creative and lively in their non-fiction writing.Sheena McDonald presents the weekÂ’s top education news stories with reports, analysis and interviews from around the country.Salina Kumbu teaches A level language and literature at City and Islington College in north London. She successfully guides an AS level language class through the grammatical structure of an Amnesty International article on torture, but she's not happy with her teaching style. She's in her second year of teaching and after a tough first year where she concentrated on classroom discipline, Salina now thinks her approach is too harsh. With the help of mentor Jenny Green, the head of the college's Teaching and Learning Unit, she decides to relax her teaching style and make lessons more fun. However, Salina also wants to hang on to her high standards and expectations, and acting on Jenny's advice, she decides to work on the student's presentation skills as well as her own. In a follow-up lesson, Salina devises a fun activity where the students work in groups and prepare presentations to deliver to the rest of the class.The introduction of a new pay restructuring scheme, replacing Management Allowances with Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR) payments is still sending tremors through the world of education. In the long term will they be a good or a bad thing for teachers? This week we explore TLRs in detail, bringing you all the facts about the pay scheme which has caused such confusion and dismay in schools.Joan Olivier, a headteacher in Fulham, was one of the first to fully introduce the new payments. We visit her and her staff and hear about the highs and lows of implementing TLRs.Peter Curran hosts a discussion with the NUT's Barry Fawcett, one of the most outspoken opponents of the new pay structure, and Bill Simmons, Chief Executive of the National Bursars Association.In inner city schools there's a new kind of racial conflict - between ethnic groups. Small incidents, like an argument in a lunch queue can escalate. When fights break out, students divide along racial lines.In Birmingham, schools are fighting to keep out gang violence. In one secondary, the Head calls an emergency assembly to talk about a fight at the school gate.In a Brent secondary, a new group has arrived at the school, from Afghanistan, and is vulnerable to attack.In Tower Hamlets, primary schools are starting early by encouraging pupils to spot racism and teaching them strategies to avoid joining in. With its Bangladeshi majority, the most likely targets for racial abuse are the newest arrivals, from Somalia.Miranda Krestovnikoff travels up and down the country to get advice on how to avoid losing your voice for an NQT+1, Colin Bell, a secondary science teacher in South London. First, she meets up with Patrick Nash, Chief Executive of the Teacher Support Network, who highlights the importance of having water on hand throughout the day and avoiding milky drinks. Next, Miranda meets the Royal Shakespeare Company's Head of Voice, Lyn Darnley, for some tips on the importance of warming up before lessons. Finally, she calls Hazel Bennett, a teacher for thirty years and author of 'The Ultimate Teachers' Handbook' who emphasises the importance of using non-verbal cues in the classroom. Will this advice help Colin's voice stay loud and clear for the rest of the term?Manor Primary topped the National Value Added tables in 2005 with 100% of their pupils achieving a level 4 in Maths and Science. But this school doesn't abandon teaching while preparing pupils for the tests. They rigorously apply targets and have a team approach to planning. With this they offer active lessons weaving test papers into practical lessons. These techniques help to prepare their pupils so they are ready to do their best in the test.An inspiring example of one teacher's approach to engaging students with the meaning and language of a 'difficult' text. At Haggerston School for Girls, East London, Head of Drama Rachel Ray Choudhuri's mixed-ability Year 10, GCSE group tackle their first piece of coursework text - the final speech of Marlowe's 'Tragical History of Dr.Faustus', written in the late 16th.century.Their lesson begins with a warm-up linked to paranoia and tension. Then a sequence of short exercises on desire, ambition and selling your soul helps encourage them to make connections with popular film and television storylines. The class then look at the text itself and, despite initial reservations, develop imaginative work that includes Marlowe's original language. Although the text is a soliloquy, they successfully devise ways of involving 4-5 performers in each piece. They evaluate each others' work and finally document the lesson for themselves and reflect on the value of this process.Teachers from a Gloucester primary school showcase an innovative approach to teaching geography at Key Stage 2, known as 'The City Curriculum'. The programme features the designer of the new approach, Richard Martin, and two teachers putting the philosophy into action at Harewood School.The scheme is designed to capitalise on resources in the locality and this programme looks at its effectiveness.The programme is the second in a pair of programmes tackling the issue of singing skills and confidence, it is extremely relevant to non-specialist teachers delivering Music in the KS1/2 classroom, and focuses on applying the techniques shown in programme 1.Most young children love to sing, but teachers who lack confidence in their own singing find it difficult to introduce and nurture singing skills in the classroom. This programme follows up on an INSET workshop that was delivered to staff at Cecil Road Primary School by Kent LEA music advisor, Helen MacGregor. Helen re-visits the school to see how they're doing. She looks at Reception, Year 1, Year 4 and Year 5 teachers to see how they are using the warm-ups, chants and songs she has taught them with their pupils.Shoeburyness High School in Southend on Sea has developed a fresh approach to supporting children with special needs in a mainstream school. In Year 7 those children who find the transfer to secondary particularly difficult are taught in a small single class called the achievement group. They are supported with a curriculum differentiated to meet their needs which is delivered by primary-trained teachers. Wherever possible the long term aim is to get children back into the mainstream.This film follows two children who, after receiving dedicated support for a term and a half in the achievement group, are now ready to make the move. Explore how the foundations laid down in the achievement group help them in their move and investigate what strategies are in place to ensure a smooth transition and ongoing support.Statistics confirm that boys from African Caribbean heritage start school at average academic levels but begin to fall behind from Year r2. The gap widens through secondary school and only 30% of black boys achieve 5 good GCSEs compared to the national average of 54%. Three schools in London are addressing the problem is different ways. Colvestone Primary in Hackney gets to grips with disaffection early and teaches basic but crucial behavioural skills to help black boys keep focussed. Mike Vance, Caribbean Achievement Consultant, outlines some of the issues within the black community which prevent their boys from realising their full potential. At Copland Secondary in Wembley a large number of good black teachers provides effective role models. Strategies have also been put in place to encourage parental involvement. At Forest Hill Secondary all black boys benefit from time on their own as a group in which they can develop their learning, thinking and communication skills.A series of five short sequences filmed in five different climatic regions. Each clip contains details of the local climate and its significance in that region. The programme begins in the polar region of Northern Canada, moving through the cool temperate climate of the Alps, the warm temperate climate of Australia's Fraser Island and the tropical rain forest in Central Uganda, to end in the dry heat of the Sinai desert. The programme is accompanied by a downloadable interactive world map and a series of interactive games that will help students at KS2 to understand differences in climates around the world. A 'masterclass' in being a good supply teacher. Emma Clamp is a qualified maths teacher but for two years she has opted to work as a supply teacher. This programme follows her on a day's placement at Lister Community School in east London. She's been asked to work in the humanities department. Andy Krokou, the School Manager, is looking for someone with quiet authority who will engage with the pupils so that some learning will have happened by the end of the lesson. Andy is well prepared and gives Emma her timetable, a photo sheet of the pupils and a plan of the school. Emma's day starts well, teaching maths with specific work left for the students. A later science lesson on forces is more tricky and she talks about the range of techniques and skills she uses to get the best out of each lesson. Her last lesson of the day is the most testing. She gives out 6 report cards but still manages some quality teaching. Andy invites her back.Uplands Community Technology College in Wadhurst has a real life skeleton in the cupboard, in the form of an ancient Egyptian mummy. It was discovered by a student in a cupboard he was tidying up. Discover who this mummy is and why was she there.Motivated by the discovery of the mummy in their school, students begin a journey to fill in the gaps in the mystery, investigating what these fragments of bone and skin can tell them about this ancient individual.Their detective hunt takes them from Manchester University's centre for Biomedical Egyptology to witness the latest scientific techniques to be carried out on the mummy, to a village in Sussex. In this village they hear the testimony of a local woman who has a connection with the mummy from over 30 years ago. They eventually discover a private file of correspondence stored at the British Museum relating to the mummy.'Just a Fraction' takes a look at a successful method of teaching fractions to primary children. The teacher uses visualisation to bring the sums to life. Using paper cups cut into halves and quarters, cards representing different fractions, and two tables, she effectively demonstrates the sums to a group of seven-year-old pupils.The children are invited to write down a maths 'story' on a white board. Pupils then volunteer to play out the maths story using the paper cups. They move on to see how cards containing the usual notation for a half and a quarter can be transported in the same way.By the end of the lesson, some children understand the concept and can go from the concrete to the abstract, but still visualise the concrete when they are unsure of a calculation.Is the effort involved in doing animation worthwhile? Make your own mind up, and get some great ideas on how to do it yourself, as we look at the different approaches to 2D animation used by two Bristol primary schools. Vicky Cleeves at Fair Furlong Primary runs a series of after-school clubs for children keen to do animation. Suzie Azare at Bishopsworth Junior School is doing a concentrated 3 day animation project with her whole class. Both teachers are using animation as part of a creative cross-curricular approach to delivering art, ICT, literacy & maths. They start by making their characters and backgrounds, then film their animations using a video camera, a lap top & special animation software. The teachers in these examples benefit from a local Creative Partnerships scheme, which in this case enables them to work with filmmaker Kari Nygaard, who helps guide both Suzi and Vicky through the process.Schools minister Jacqui Smith reveals all about her time at school in Malvern. She says the support of her parents and teachers helped her to win a place at Oxford - she was the first pupil from her school to do so. Journalist Steve Richards is given access to Ms Smith's school reports, which reveal her early political ambitions and her engagement in school activities and debates. She explains how she became active in local politics from the age of seven, discusses whether she deserved her milk monitor's badge and outlines how her own experience at school shaped her policies as Schools Minister today.The Sir Bernard Lovell School school has recently used their devolved capital formula combined with a bank loan to invest £250k in ICT hardware. This investment has coincided with an upgrade in software for e-learning. The school believes that education continues after the lesson ends with the use of ICT and the strategy to invest in ICT is focused on supporting teaching and learning. Teachers, students and pupils will be given access to an e-learning network which will be supported by the new hardware investment. This project is managed, independently of the LEA, by Liz Griffiths the Business Administration Manager, in collaboration with Andrew McCauley the ICT systems manager.Resource Review is the place to see teaching resources given a rigorous road test. Whether you are looking for latest resources on the market or for a classic that has passed you by we can help you choose. Each week teachers trial the resources in their classroom and we take a peak at how they get on. Our studio panel debate which resources get top marks, and what gets sent to the bottom of the class!Isaac Anoom, aka Mr. Numbervator, recommends three excellent resources for the teaching of Primary Maths. These resources are:- the Valiant Roamer for NES Arnold- the Step and Count Mat from GLS Educational Supplies Ltd, and - Massive Money Coins also from GLS Educational Supplies Ltd.This weeks panellists: Judy Sayers, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at The University of Northampton, and Fran Bradshaw, Primary Advisor for Mathematics at Hertfordshire Development Centre. Tune in to find out what they think.In response to the Victoria Climbie case and inquiry, the Government produced the Every Child Matters (ECM) Green Paper and the Children Act 2004 legislation. The impact of this legislation on schools is all-encompassing, driving schools to work in multi-agency teams and become fully-inclusive.This programme takes an honest look at the legislation and the broader ECM agenda, exploring what they mean for schools in practice and investigating the challenges schools now face in terms of communication, workload, standards and league tables. Discover how two inner-city secondary schools have chosen to implement their own approach to ECM. Mayfield School and College is just beginning to introduce ECM. George Green's School pre-empted the ECM agenda having already adopted a fully embedded multi-agency approach with an on-site full-time social-worker, police officer and school counsellor.An in-depth analysis of how one school is working with its GCSE students to develop their performance skills to the levels required.At Lister School in the London Borough of Newham, dance artist Suba Subramaniam introduces head of dance Heather Coke and GCSE dance moderator Kathy Sexton, as they workshop and talk about creating complex motifs and developing them for the choreography component of GCSE dance. We see a small group of Year 10 pupils working with Kathy or Heather on their solo and ensemble pieces - Michael, Terry, Jade and Mumona integrate their solo pieces into a group performance for their mock exam. Later we meet three Year 11 pupils, Kasminder, Joseph and who perform and talk about their GCSE dance pieces.Find out from head of dance Heather Coke and GCSE dance moderator Kathy Sexton how to go about creating complex motifs required for GCSE dance.Each week, Resource Review experts recommend top resources which are put to the test, giving teachers the ability to make informed decisions regarding the most effective resources ranging from the best publications to the most applicable pieces of software. Dr Sarah Smalley, Chair of the Association of RE Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants, recommends multimedia packs 'Pathways of Belief' from BBC Education, 'Picturing Creation' from RE Today Services and 'Samira's Eid', a dual language book from Mantra Lingua Publishers.Deputy Head Peter Greaves at Dovelands Primary School, Leicester, tested 'Picturing Creation' and later the 'Pathways of Belief' DVD, introducing Islamic beliefs and the Qur'an.In the studio, presenter Hermione Cockburn discusses all three resources with Dr Smalley and panellists Ray Barker, Head of the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), and Alan Mills of the Specialist Schools Trust.Chris Randall, explains 'Teacher of the Future', an intervention plan to improve standards in Maths. The plan provides specialist skills in ICT and Maths teaching, and targets individual children.Teachers use lesson plans authored by specialists and transferred to individuals through ICT. We see this planning and how Pali Nahal, specialist teacher, supports the class teacher before the lesson. They discuss the barriers to children understanding problem solving. It comes down to involvement, and ICT helps. It can break down the text of aproblem and help to highlight the mathematical language. Many children at this school have EAL, and physically 'acting out the problem' progresses their understanding.Differentiation for some of the more able pupils is demonstrated and discussed; why not change the criteria of the problem? And can some children manipulate a problem purely mentally by the end of the lesson?When 'Teach First' beginner Iesha Small was a student she was highly independent, but now, faced by a class of 20 highly dependent year 10 Maths students at Islington Green School in North London, she finds her pupils' lack of self-drive continually frustrating. She sees them as totally reliant on her, and would like John Bayley to offer her some advice. In this programme Bayley helps Iesha begin to define the qualities that make an independent learner, and discusses with her strategies that she can employ to help it happen. A week after Bayley's feedback session we see Iesha putting his sound advice into practice, with encouraging results.With his mum, brother and his little sister, Alex visits a farm for the first time on his seventh birthday. He's excited to be going to a real farm and can't wait to see all his favourite animals. In this three-part programme, Alex encounters a sow called Beatty who is not like his toy pigs at home. He and his brother meet a group of lambs which are like each other in some respects but different from each other in others, and Alex and his brother are set the task of planting geraniums. Each part of the programme illustrates a key concept in science at Key Stage 1. Adam Cooke, Advisor for MFL in Norfolk County Council, has recommended three resources for the teaching of Primary MFL:- CD and book: Investigating Languages by Progressive Educational Tools Ltd- CD: Le Rythme, La Musique et les Raps de Monsieur X by Molliet Publishing - Book: The Hungry Caterpillar, or La Chenille qui Fait des Trous, published by Mijade and distributed by European Schoolbooks Ltd. The panellists this week are Judy Hawker, NACELL Regional Support Co-ordinator and Primary MFL teacher in Hove, and Nicola Cottier, headteacher of of St Matthew's CE Primary School in London.Resource Review is the place to see teaching resources given a rigorous road test. Whether you want the latest resources on the market, or a classic that's passed you by, we can help. Each week teachers trial the resources in their classroom and our studio panel then debates which get top marks.Three short films in which teenagers talk frankly about being in trouble. Their stories are illustrated with reconstructions. John used to mug children for their mobile phones. He has been inside a secure unit and a Young Offenders Institution. Now he has re-thought his life and attends a special centre which helps people like him to stay out of trouble. Laura was a junkie at the age of 14. She started with one tab of ecstasy and quickly got hooked. When her addiction was at its worst, she was taking five tabs at a time to feel any effect. Then one day she realised that she needed help and told her mum. Together, she and her mum beat her habit. She doesn't want anyone to go through what she went through. Nathan truanted from school the first time because he hated maths. He got away with it and soon truanted regularly. When he realised that 'the geeks' would be the ones with jobs he soon found a way to catch up on his education.Regarded as one of the most dry and difficult to teach areas of ICT, this programme explores how Mat Little, an ICT teacher at Parrs Wood High School in Manchester, develops pupils' understanding of spreadsheets through a series of visual and kinaesthetic teaching activities, and by making the topic relevant. The year 10 students are initially tasked to define what a mean, mode, median and range are using a visual numbers game. Pupils then move on to create a formula, with students holding specific components at the front of the class being directed by peers into their correct position within the 'human' formula. Students are then tasked to work on computers to identify a variety of components within spreadsheets, with the lesson plenary involving an activity demonstrating the effectiveness of spreadsheets. The data-set they work with is based on the use and cost of mobile phones.As science and RE are often thought to be antagonistic, RE teachers can understandably be anxious to mix the two. They can however be an exciting and powerful combination.This programme follows one teacher who manages to bring together science and RE with compelling results for his students and viewers alike.Ian Harris is an RE and science specialist from The Thomas Hardye School, a science college in Dorchester. This programme observes and analyses his lesson for a Key Stage 4 mixed-ability class, which uses both religion and science to try and answer the question, 'When does personhood begin?'There's nothing like a good story to engage pupils. This inspiring approach to WW2 shows a Year 6 teacher using novel historical techniques to help pupils grapple with the complexities of the past and improve their writing. Graham Hicks at Eastfield School in Middlesex combines literacy and history to tell the on-going story of Wolfgang, a fictional German soldier. He weaves the story around authentic historical sources and events, building a complex picture of the past. The story picks up when Wolfgang's regiment enter the Ukraine. Pupils hear about the soldiers' experiences, sample food, read Wolfgang's letters from home, and watch archive film and photographs. Graham then takes pupils' questions in role before setting them a writing task. Graham Hicks explains his approach and passes on tips for this kind of teaching. History consultant Bernie Ashmore observes the lesson to gauge the effect on learning and considers the strengths and risks of this approach.Millais School for Girls in Horsham, West Sussex, delivers CPD across the school by sharing and enhancing the skills of all its staff. The programme features a whole school INSET day focused on CPD and shows the design and technology department sharing ideas and transferable skills, the science staff experiencing a sample lesson, and the English and modern languages staff improving their use of ICT. Support staff at the school are involved as well, as the maintenance supervisor trains the head of drama to work safely at heights and a laboratory technician explains new techniques to her head of department.A primary school teacher takes a video journey around his classroom and through his school with health and safety expert Jo Crickson. They look at how to identify and prevent potential safety hazards. Advice is given on first aid, fire extinguishers and handling equipment. They hear case histories of teachers who have had accidents at school and how with hindsight, they could been prevented.Resource Review puts products to the test in classrooms around the country before discussing them with a panel of experts.Professor Clare Benson, Director of the Centre for Resource Curriculum Development in Primary Technology (CRIPT) at UCE Birmingham, recommends three classroom resources for teaching primary Design and Technology: - Mechanical Toys: a set of colourful wooden toys designed to demonstrate the mechanics of levers, axles, cranks and cams supplied by TTS Group Ltd - Learn and Go controller box with built-in memory from Data Harvest - The Primary Subject Leaders' File from the Design and Technology Association, DATA.Patricia Coxhead from St Edwards RC Primary School in Marylebone tries out the mechanical toys while Alison Tanner at Darrick Wood Junior School in Orpington puts the Learn and Go unit through its paces. The panellists are: Ray Barker, Director of the British Educational Suppliers Association and independent education consultant Adrienne Jones.At Frampton Cottrell Primary School in South Gloucester, Claire Taylor has been teaching 'The Weather' to her Year 4 Class, employing the topic across the curriculum. Discover how Claire has been using the topic of the weather in poetry, dance, data handling and ICT. Her class are drawing on their prior knowledge and understanding to develop their learning and access other areas of the curriculum.Two experts: Alison Bailey, a geography tutor at the University of West of England and Angela Craig, an advanced skills teacher, observe Clare teaching. They comment on Claire's approach and offer ideas on how the activities she uses can be developed and extended.Four secondary headteachers get the chance to grill top HMI Harmer Parr about Ofsted's 'Section 5' inspection and what it means for secondary managers. Issues of 'how much to reveal?', 'how to be outstanding?', self- evaluation, providing evidence, as well as leadership concerns are put directly to the Inspector. With the Section 5 regime well under way there are still many on the front line with questions and concerns and this opportunity to interrogate the inspectors is a valuable resource for all secondary headteachers, governors and teachers. Panel members: Trevor Averre-Besson Headteacher, Islington Green Secondary School, LondonSally Pemberton Deputy Headteacher, Sweyne Park Secondary School, EssexKenny Frederick Headteacher, George Green's Secondary School, London Sue Higgins Headteacher, Parliament Hill Secondary School, LondonThe series where mathematician Marcus du Sautoy combines visual demonstrations with his unique gift for explanation.In this programme, Marcus explains how, instead of using paint and canvas, mathematicians use numbers and equations to represent the world around us. Marcus shows us how mathematics is threaded through the natural world by taking us on a journey from plant growth to music to football. He meets Dr Mark Miodownik who explains how how the head on a pint if beer forms. Marcus hopes to convince us that mathematics let's us see the world in a way that is as breathtaking as the finest works of Van Goth, Monet or Renoir - that the world we live in is indeed painted with numbers.Whitton School in Twickenham has recently introduced Restorative Justice as part of its behaviour management system.Leading the project is Brigid Medlam, a Restorative Justice worker and psychologist financed by the Children's Fund. Brigid works at Whitton School one day a week as a mediator between victim and aggressor. We follow Brigid during a typical day's work, offering help and more importantly a safe environment for pupils to talk through issues without risk. On this particular day, Eni and Natasha have come to see Brigid over a simmering dispute between some Year 8 girls.Brigid sees Restorative Justice as a means of helping pupils face responsibility and to address victims' feelings.This programme gives an insight into how Restorative Justice workers can have an impact on learning. 'I'm trying to get them to work together so they're happier to be in school,' explains Brigid,Sheila Sage, Primary Adviser with responsibility for Early Years in Worcestershire, is joined by Ged Cotton, an infant school headteacher from Hove and previously team leader for Early Years at QCA, Diane Rich, Early Years consultant and author, and special guest Julie Thomas, the childminder featured in 'Childminder 1'. The panel discuss child-centred starting points for planning and how the National Childminding Association can support planning. The panel discuss Julie's bus journey, her questioning, the use of a digital camera and how numbers in the real world on the buses and timetables motivate mathematical development. The panel talk about follow up through sequencing photographs, role play and associated activities. They analyse the resources in the garden and Julie's role, specifically how much intervention there should be in role play.Inside Story is a trial project which celebrates the use of ancient texts in the classroom. The British Library has teamed up with three primary schools in Yorkshire to help them access these books and benefit from the experience.The three books selected are the Shahname, the Ramayana and the Golden Haggadah, all unique masterpieces vividly bringing to life epic and culturally important stories.Each of schools were allocated a book to study after liaison with the teaching staff involved. This programme focuses on Hillcrest Primary, Leeds, and their work on the story of the Ramayana, an ancient Sanskrit poem. Teacher Jim Crennel found the text an extremely useful cross-curricular tool.Warwickshire's education department is a DfES 14-19 Pathfinder tasked to promote and improve collaboration between schools, FE colleges and training providers. Schools offer work-based learning opportunities to students of all abilities at KS4, providing every student with an opportunity to spend one day each week in the world of work. The programme features KS4 students enrolled on NVQ Level 1 courses in hospitality and catering at Stratford-upon-Avon College.Students from participating schools are integrated with older FE students during work related learning in professional kitchens and commercial restaurants.The headteacher from St Benedicts RC High School and Stratford College explain how links are forged to ensure that both the school and college maximise opportunities from the partnership.Each week, Resource Review experts recommend top resources which are put to the test, giving teachers the ability to make informed decisions regarding the most effective resources ranging from the best publications to the most applicable pieces of software. Sean Lang, author, teacher and lecturer, has chosen three resources for secondary history: 'Think Through History: Minds and Machines' from Pearson Longman, BBC History 'The Cold War' - a free website, and Wellcome Trust 'History of Medicine', another free website. Tony McConnell uses 'Minds and Machines' at Mill Hill County High School in London, while Bonny Morris works with an after-school group of Gifted and Talented students, using the BBC History Cold War website.In the Teachers' TV studio, presenter Hermione Cockburn discusses the resources with the Resource Review panel, featuring Ben Walsh, teacher and author and Simon Gibbons, PGCE course leader at De Montfort University.Little Ilford School in east London is working to ensure its focus on pupil inclusion is maintained. Headteacher Yvonne Powell reveals how they celebrate diversity in a school where over fifty languages are represented. This involves a range of initiatives such as peer mediation where problems can be aired and solutions found. Another example featured in the programme is the Year 7 class where pupils explore self-image in order to value each other's differences and talk about how beauty is portrayed in the media.Jackie de Saules arrived at Howard Primary School in Croydon as a supply teacher 25 years ago and has been there ever since. Now teaching the children of children she taught in her early years, Jackie has dedicated her life to teaching. From a lesson in the IT suite where the children are compiling a child's guide to their school, to an afternoon of Science, John Bayley spends a hectic day witnessing Jackie in action, observing how she continually reinforces the lesson objectives until the moment she sees that learning has taken place.Duffryn Infant School in Wales is piloting a radically different approach to Early Years education that places a greater emphasis on learning through play. Phil Pope, headteacher at St Martin's Garden Primary in Bath, visits the school to see the new approach in action. A key aspect of the new approach is the lower pupil/staff ratio. This has allowed staff to work in very small groups, to differentiate more and to meet the needs of the pupils. There is also more time spent developing the children's speaking and listening skills, and working outdoors. The teachers involved feel the pupils who were less able have benefited greatly and are more ready to move on to more formal learning. Phil can see that learning is taking place but feels parents may need to be reassured about the term 'play' and what the approach offers. He really likes the concept of the forest school and speaks to the Forestry Commission about the potential of using woodland for learning in other areas.An insight into how one school is making the most of the National Gallery's 'Take One Picture' scheme for cross-curricular learning.Each year London's National Gallery chooses a different picture from its collection which it believes schools can use as the focus of activities across a range of subject areas beyond just art, such as history, geography, literacy, and music. Flore Primary School in Northamptonshire has participated in the National Gallery's 'Take One Picture' for the last 3 years and has even had its own work displayed at the Gallery. This programmes follows the CPD training day at the National Gallery and how Flore is using the 2005/6 painting 'Two Boys and a Girl making Music', painted in 1629 by Dutch artist Jan Molenaer, to inspire its teachers and pupils.Behaviour management guru John Bayley works with teachers to help them to improve their technique. This week, he interviews a teacher who has independently developed her own style of behaviour management.In 'Praise & Preparation', Bayley visits the classroom of Amy Alexander, a science teacher at Pimlico School in central London. Originally from Australia, Amy has adapted her own experiences of teaching in a small town to an inner city classroom with remarkable effect. Amy's system of praise impresses Bayley, as well as her use of the whiteboard in lesson structuring.Behaviour management specialists have always agreed that pupil conduct can be improved by using a clear lesson structure, a system of recognising good work and maximising pupil participation. In Amy Alexander, Bayley finds a teacher who has formulated her own method of these principles to suit her particular needs as well as those of her pupils.By 2010, all primary schools need to be offering MFL to KS2 classes. 'Introducing MFL into Schools' looks at how one school, Hampton Hill Juniors in Richmond, has overcome the barriers to getting MFL up and running, offering its own solutions to the areas of staffing, budget and CPD. Headteacher Bill Jerman talks through the issues he has had to deal with. These include the key questions of who teaches MFL - a class teacher who with limited language skills or a specialist language teacher - and how are they trained. The school have chosen to offer French, but we also see how they have recently piloted Japanese with a Year Three class. Other issues covered are, how foreign language assistants can be used in classrooms and where schools can access these skills, the importance of an MFL Coordinator and integrating MFL into the whole school.Anne Farren, General Advisor for MFL for the Borough of Richmond upon Thames, provides expert advice.This programme explores one approach to teaching systems and control. The theme is 'Virtual Pets', which KS2 teacher Pauline Hannigan delivers over a 3 day period to her mixed Year 5/6 class.After the project, Pauline, together with Cornwall LEA D&T Adviser David Prest, and fellow primary teacher Teresa Wilton, look back at footage filmed during the 3 days. They discuss which aspects of the project they feel other teachers can draw upon in their own classrooms.New teaching tools put to the test in the classroom. From the latest publication to brand new software, teachers give their reactions, and our experts in studio assess their success, helping you decide if they're useful for you.Jeremy Hayward, Lecturer in Citizenship Education at the Institute of Education, recommends three resources for secondary citizenship: - Trial and Error CD Rom, put on trial by Deputy Headteacher Gareth Hughes at Highcliffe School and Language College in Dorset - www.dopolitics.co.uk and Democracy Cookbook: teacher Frank Ward cooks up some exciting activities at John Cabot City Technology College in Bristol - Citizens and Society, a book for discussion by the panel.Jeremy joins presenter Hermione Cockburn to discuss the results with panellists Alice Carlisle, Citizenship co-ordinator at John Kelly Girls' Technology College in London, and Roger Emmett, Senior Advisor for History and Citizenship at Staffordshire Education Services.Three years ago, Headteacher Maggie Buttress put Highlands Primary School in Redbridge through a radical programme of change, to bridge the attainment gap and broach issues of inclusion. Working with Professor Barbara McGilchrist at London's Institute of Education, they decided to shift the focus of their work from teaching to learning, and the results have been incredible.'There was a growing culture of not doing things, of put downs from other children and of not contributing in class. We've turned that around, telling them to have a go, creating a more open and supportive culture, trying to include everyone and teaching them: we can if?'For Professor McGilchrist, it has been a revelation. 'This is truly exciting. The children are enthusiastic, working together wonderfully, supporting each other in their learning... having gone for an inclusive agenda we asked ourselves have we made a difference, and the answer is yes' This programme investigates this shift of focus.A panel of professionals who are involved in support work share their thoughts and opinions on the programmes Unsung Heroes - Secondary, Primary and Early Years. The panel includes Chris Kaufman, national secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Nina Vogel, a teaching assistant and learning mentor, Barbara Milligan, a higher level teaching assistant and Robert Morgan, a teacher researching support staff.They discuss the difficulties teaching assistants face, particularly in terms of their authority in the classroom and consider TAs' vital links with the local community and the advantages of their life experience. They examine the role of Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) status in career development and tensions within the TA community that HLTA status might cause.Chris Kaufman: 'You called them the unsung heroes, which is absolutely right. We sometimes call them 'the hidden army' that is vital for keeping the schools going. We couldn't operate without them.'Useful information, advice and discussion especially for governors. Ivan Godfrey, from Two Moors Primary in Devon, Jackie Ball from Gay Elms Primary in Bristol and Richard Bevan from Bedminster Down Secondary are three very different chairs of governors. They reflect on their role, their relationship with their headteacher and how they lead, work with and encourage the rest of the board. The programme also explores the role of specialist training in helping existing and potential chairs.Health and safety guidance for dealing with school grounds and entrance areas, from keeping the playground safe to dealing with extreme weather conditions.The programme is an ideal resource for teaching health and safety, presented by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Head of Education, Juliet Barrattt, who also sits on the DfES/Home Office consultative committee for school safety.In Langley School in Solihull, staff and pupils illustrate hazards and how to avoid them while giving their own perspectives and tips on school safety. Special effects and graphics are used to ensure the programmes are entertaining as well as informative.Parents' Evenings can fill both parent and teacher with horror. This programme examines how to avoid the headaches and make a Parents' Consultation Evening run like clockwork. The staff at Tanbridge House School in Horsham are keen to ensure that their Parents' Evenings run without a hitch. With an army of prefects and a strict appointment system, Head Teacher Maureen Johnson feels their system is pretty efficient. Discover how they stick to the 5 minutes allotted, and how they deal with the parents that don't show up. Mrs Johnson is now piloting a new system, the whole of Year 10 is taken off timetable and return to school for a 15 minute appointment with their tutors and their parents. The parents like the extra time to talk, the students are happy with a day off school and the teachers are pleased that they don't have to stay late.Ravensbury Community School, at the heart of an East Manchester Action Zone, deals with the effects of poverty on the families it serves every day. Headteacher Linda Shaw believes that engaging parents in the education of their children helps to break the cycle of poverty. Her school has become the hub of community projects which the outreach members of the school's staff operate. The programme features staff members Anne Roberts and Kay Hudson, who have developed successful methods of integrating pupils into the school. Members of the Parents' Survival Class also have their say about the importance of the school in their lives.Michelle Zini is a professional beautician who now teaches on heath and beauty at City and Islington College in north London. Her NVQ Level 1 students are learning the theory and practice of beauty treatment on nails. Helen Kent, Deputy Director for Health and Beauty, observes her lesson and praises her clear vocal projection and her appropriate use and pace of language. This has helped to build the confidence of her young students. However she finds Michelle's powerpoint presentation much too long and her students are obviously bored. Michelle is keen to use powerpoint since it's flexible and good for teaching theory, but she begins to see its limitations. She agrees to break up her presentations into bitesized chunks and to introduce more practical group work into her next lesson. The variety works well. There's a buzz in classroom, the students are engaged and the feedback is good.In Estelle Morris meets William Atkinson, the former Secretary of State for Education finds out more about one of the most respected head teachers in the country, and the inspiration for Lenny Henry's character in the BBC drama Hope and Glory. William Atkinson arrived in the UK from Jamaica at the age of seven, and was put into a remedial class after being mistaken for a nine year old. Luckily, help was at hand: 'I met an absolutely fantastic teacher who saw in me qualities I didn't believe I had. And that person was responsible, I believe, for actually turning me around'. Mr Atkinson went on to become a teacher himself, and in 1995 became head teacher at the Phoenix Secondary School, in London's White City. At the time it was one of the country's most challenging schools, but last year, 60% of his students achieved A* - C grades in their GCSEs. He says his life's work has been to inspire his pupils and raise their expectations.Colin Hynson, a freelance educational writer, recommends three resources for the teaching of Primary History. These resources are: - CD-Rom: Why do we remember Florence Nightingale? - Website: Anglo-Saxon Discovery- Software: Magic Grandad: Toys today and in the pastThese three resources are discussed by Kate Ruttle, Deputy Headteacher and SENCO at Great Heath Primary School in Suffolk and Dr Grant Bage, Director of Learning at NESTA. Tune in to find out what they think.Resource Review is the place to see three teaching resources given a rigorous road test. Whether you're looking for the latest resources on the market, or for a classic that has passed you by, we can help you choose. Each week teachers trial the resources in their classroom and we take a look at how they get on. Our studio panel debates which resources get top marks.Organising the learning environment to respond effectively to the differing needs and abilities of students is important in all types of classroom arrangement, but is particularly challenging for teachers who teach in mixed ability environments. This programme features two teachers who are meeting this challenge effectively. It explores the role of group work, modelling and guided teaching, and Christine Harrison, a lecturer in science education at King's College offers advice.At George Mitchell School, the headteacher has piloted a new initiative called 'Making Learning Better', where students actually help to run the school by observing lessons, interviewing for new members of staff and attending staff meetings and INSET days.Where many schools pay lip service to giving their pupils a voice, this programme shows how one school has made 'pupil voice' a reality. Discover how pupils are being coached on how to take part in an interview panel, help teachers persuade more girls to participate in PE, observe lessons and provide feedback on questions of differentiated learning.Former leader of the Conservatives Michael Howard reveals how he was regarded as a natural rebel as a young boy in his Labour-dominated hometown of Llanelli in South Wales. He tells journalist Steve Richards about his preference for playing pool rather than doing schoolwork as a teenager and his ambitions to make it big playing with his skiffle group. He explains the impact his time at grammar school had on his views on grammar schools today. And we find out about Mr Howard's battle to convince his teachers that he was capable enough to go to Cambridge and why his entry exam involved an essay entitled 'Why I am an Angry Young Man?'The magazine series helping teachers to manage their workload and improve their work-life balance.This programme looks at three schemes where schools are networking. Their collaborations are already proving successful in terms of more effective teaching and an easing of workloads. Icknield High in Luton is piloting the use of video conferencing. A history class uses it to access a lesson on World War Two direct from the National Archive. Art and design students discuss creative techniques with students in another school and a science class runs a conference involving three schools, with the moderation of a visiting expert.In Cornwall, headteachers Gillian Greenwood and John Vipond use a software programme called Schoolcentre to share action plans, policy information and ideas for school improvement.College High School in Birmingham has been receiving extra help with management and extra support with teaching from nearby Hamstead Hall School.Education expert Professor Paul Black has evidence to show that getting the children to do the majority of the work in a classroom leads to significant school improvement. This is the first of two programmes explaining what is meant by formative assessment and showing how it is applied in a Hertfordshire primary school. At Two Waters Primary School, teacher Julia Turner uses formative assessment in a Year 6 revision lesson on light. She works with the pupils to determine the learning intention of the lesson. Then, using mind mapping, she collaborates with the class to develop the success criteria for the lesson. The children are given responsibility for their own learning. They work in small groups or pairs and choose their own resources. They go out of the classroom to use the library and ICT suite. The programme includes commentary from Paul Black and from headteacher Nanette Paine, who has successfully implemented formative assessment throughout the school.Little Ilford School in east London works hard to include students with English as an additional language and mid-phase arrivals from the moment they arrive. This programme looks at examples of their approach, including how ethnic minority achievement staff create entry points in the curriculum to make it accessible, challenging and interesting. There's also a Iook inside an English lesson where pupils explore ideas of exclusion and alienation through the story of Dr Frankenstein's monster while dramatizing the text.Teachers at St. Stephen's Primary School in Newham, London, use a range of classroom techniques to teach the curriculum to children who speak English as an additional language.Anne Clayden, EAL Coordinator, stresses the importance of giving children with EAL lots of opportunities for speaking and listening. She also highlights the need to model the language they require and to allow other children to do the same. The children also get the chance to work in their home language.Nicola Coupland uses reading examples and peer modelling to encourage her Year 2 class to act out the roles in the story 'Amazing Grace'. Tam Van Tran uses the guise of a Kung Fu Grand Master to help his Year 6 class hone their punctuation skills, while Ken Davies has his Year 5 class dressing up and wearing hats from around the world to inspire their descriptive writing.Burleigh Community College Principle John Smith, calls a meeting with teachers from the school and representatives from the local Bangladeshi community and the Muslim Council to discuss the controversial issue of incorporating religious dress into the school uniform policy.The conversation soon becomes dominated by the ban on religious dress in France. It becomes clear that schools must respect or be mindful of religious needs and this can only be achieved if the staff understand the religions themselves.Behaviour Management guru John Bayley works with teachers to help them to improve their technique.In this episode, John observes and films an English lesson conducted by Michelle Rock from South Africa who is working toward her teacher qualification. Bayley then advises Michelle in a masterclass aimed at improving teaching and learning. Drawing from his wealth of experience, Bayley tells her that teaching can be improved by more preparation, a firm lesson structure and by keeping her students on track during lessons.Bayley is a strong believer that lesson structure can work wonders in the classroom. Not only does this lead to improved comprehension levels in pupils, but ultimately reduces stress for the teacher.Schools are increasingly dependent on behaviour management systems as society changes. This programme shows how effective preparation in the classroom can improve behaviour, as well as benefiting both teachers and pupils.In this programme John Bayley meets a teacher in a crisis. At Islington Green School, deputy head of English Nick Smith is teaching his Year 11 work-related students Romeo and Juliet. But studying Shakespeare, with pupils who have to take the class as a condition of their vocational GCSEs, is stretching every sinew of his five years' teaching experience. Even worse, he's been timetabled in an IT suite.John and Nick develop a range of strategies to engage the students, based around a more patient and explicit explanation of the lesson objectives. On John's advice Nick also plays to the students' particular learning styles, asking the class to represent the plot of the play either in words, music, as a rap song, or in pictures. All but one favour the last of these, and as a consequence, the class is much more focused.Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum in South Shields is built alongside the remains of a Roman military base which supplied 17 forts along the length of Hadrian's Wall.Sue Pierce from Ashley Primary School in South Shields