Welcome to the Teaching Ideas blog!

The idea behind this new blog is to create a space where teachers can share worksheets, Powerpoint presentations, games etc. with each other.  Several teachers have very generously shared their Halloween lesson ideas this week and I’m sure they’ve been greatly appreciated by whoever’s been able to use them.  Sometimes teachers put a lot of time into creating a Triptico game, an engaging lead-in on Powerpoint, or an attractive grammar presentation.  I think it would be great to show teachers in all the centres what you’ve created so everyone can benefit from it and you can get some credit for the effort you’ve put in. 

Similarly, many level leaders spend hours producing much more material than they are expected to and without that we wouldn’t have all the extra resources available to us in the level folders.

Level leaders are also welcome to use the teaching ideas blog to let teachers know of any new material that they’ve made between level meetings.

So, how will the teaching ideas blog work?

It would be too complicated to make all teachers contributors, so only managers will be able to make posts, just like with the CS News for Teachers blog.  If you have some material to share, please send it to Lee to post on the Teaching Ideas blog. She’ll need to know what level it is for and which unit it relates to.  Depending on the material, you may also need to include brief instructions and an answer key.

We’ll also be posting teaching ideas that we get from journals or webinars.

You will receive a daily email with the previous day’s posts, just like you do for the CS News for Teachers blog.

We look forward to getting your contributions!