Resources by Teachers TV

Pupil Led Learning

This Teachers TV programme features a science project which was designed by students to explore their interest in intensive farming techniques.

Students at Saltash.net Community School wanted to learn more about this issue after watching a television documentary on battery chickens. Time was put aside in...

Pushing and Pulling

This resource from Teachers TV shows real-life examples of forces at work. Suitable as a lesson starter for Key Stage One, it demonstrates the physics behind pushing and pulling objects. Primary children can follow Jake and Dan as they go canoeing, demonstrating a variety of pulling and pushing actions along the...

Quadratic Equations

This video resource, from the Teachers TV series Hard to Teach, features staff at Henry Cort Community College, which is a specialist sports college, using a cross-curricular approach to teach quadratic functions.

Video from activities on a basketball court and a design technology lesson are imported into...

Questions

In this Teachers TV video, the late Ted Wragg shares his years of research into question types and reveals that in the classroom, surprisingly, only four per cent of questions asked in secondary schools are "higher order" questions, requiring more thought and an extended answer.

Questions About Light

From Teachers TV, as part of its Lesson Planning Pack series, this video can be used to help children understand about light, shadows and seeing.

Two friends, Liz and Heather, go to the seaside for a holiday and encounter problems with the lights in their hotel. Their seaside trip soon turns into a spooky...

Radiation Officer

Produced by Teachers TV, and part of the Great Lesson Starters series, this video shows how a secondary physics teacher uses role play to liven-up her lesson on radiation.

She starts by asking her students to...

Raising Standards and Aspirations

This video resource from Teachers TV features ideas, implemented at Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College in Weston-Super- Mare, which have improved the GCSE attainment of their students.

Results rose from 24% achieving A*/C in 2003 to 50% in 2007 and have been achieved despite a profile of...

Ratios and Proportions

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by Fran and Dave, who demonstrate a practical application of ratio and proportion as they prepare for a dinner party.

The number of guests requires the adaptation of recipes for both food and drink. Graphics are used effectively throughout the video to...

Reception 1

This programme from Teachers TV follows teachers Johanna Moore and Kristabel Harwood from Berridge Infant School, a multicultural school in Nottingham. They each choose a target child to focus on over the day, Jade and Shoaib. Throughout the day they create a balance between teacher-led and child-initiated...

Reception 2

In this programme from Teachers TV a panel of early years experts analyse the practice at Berridge Infant School and talk about the balance between child-led and adult initiated play.

Sheila Sage, primary adviser with responsibility for early years in Worcestershire, is joined by Ged Cotton, an infant...