The attached report by Remi Joseph-Salisbury at The University of Manchester is based on interviews with 24 teachers across schools in Greater Manchester. It will be one of the reference points for our development of a response to Black Lives Matter within our PGCE...
Category: Science
PGCE 2019-20 Celebrations!
Trainees' completion of the PGCE course this year demanded a celebration, and the circumstances required that this take place on Zoom. The PGCE 2019-20 Cohort and staff of over 200 assembled to celebrate on Friday 12th June, with a magnificent send off including...
Impacts of the lockdown on Year 11 – focus on disadvantage
Making post-GCSE decisions during the Covid-19 Crisis: The need for actionA blog post published today, Thursday 14th May by Professor Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester), Dr Stephanie Thomson, Professor Lorna Unwin and Dr Sanne Velthuis, highlights the difficulties...
Focusing on pupils with medical needs
My name is Georgia Grant and I currently work as the lead support of medical needs (Physical and Sensory SEN Pathway) at Manchester Academy School. I completed Secondary Science (Biology) PGCE at The University of Manchester in 2019, following Human Biology...
What young people already know
Science trainees worked in three Partnership schools at the end of September as part of our 'Collaborative Teaching Day'. In each school they had the chance to team teach a class, with a focus on finding out what young people already knew and understood about a topic...
Science teaching in reverse
Great day in three of our inner city partnership schools in Manchester and Salford for our 80 science trainees last Friday, all teaching a lesson in a group - NOT introducing new ideas, but instead finding out a lot about what young people already think about...
Science TeachMEET at Trinity CofE High School
Trinity CofE High School is hosting an ASE TeechMeet 'Little Things Big Differences' on Thursday 19th October from 4 - 5.30pm, likely to prove interesting and beneficial. For more information and to reserve your tickets follow the link below: ...
Association for Science Education
Message from Pat DowerDear colleague,What are your CPD plans for this academic year?Coming in November is the Northern Area Conference at Sheffield Hallam University (Saturday 11th November). The theme for this year's conference is inclusion and diversity in their...
Zero carbon Manchester – education for sustainability – invitation 6th July
MEEN's AGM is happening around a visit by Paul Allen from the renowned Centre for Alternative Technology to Manchester to discuss a Zero Carbon Manchester. We have our AGM 2.30 - 5pm on 6th July in the afternoon and also an evening session 7.30pm at the Briton's...
Dave McEvoy – 4 years science teaching in Manchester, including as head of year, then Italy, Spain, China, Hong Kong..
I completed my PGCE during the summer of 2006. Throughout the year I had been particularly interested in the diversity of the learners in my different placement schools. The course was excellent and helped me to develop my pedagogy whilst the tutors and mentors...
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