Places at the Word for Dissertation workshops are limited to 24 so you will need to book your place.
There’s no need to book the assignment drop-ins, just stop by the library social space on the above dates/time and ask us your assignment skills questions.
Over the festive period, the University Libraries will not be staffed but will be open with self-service access between 10:00-18:00. Both libraries will be closed completely on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Day. Full details can be found here http://library.sunderland.ac.uk/openinghours/
All of our e-resources are available off-campus wherever you have internet connection, giving you access to eBooks via the library catalogue, and access to journals via Discover (remember to log in for full access!) The Skills for Learning section on the library website provides useful guidance and tips on how to make the most of these information resources and systems, as well as handy tips on things like referencing and academic writing, among others.
Wishing you all a merry Christmas and happy new year from the library.
The University is unstaffed over the festive period but we know that many of you will be working towards assignment deadlines in January and may be in need of library support.
If you do need support or a response to any library queries, please use LibraryTalk for a live chat which is available 24/7. We won’t be able to respond to emails until Monday 4th January so live chat is your best option to get in touch.
LibraryTalk is available at our website: http://library.sunderland.ac.uk/
If you’ve recently started your studies with Sunderland make sure you watch our welcome video. At 2:48 mins it is a concise overview of the resources and services available to you.
When you’re a Sunderland student, you’ll find the online resources, as well as the help and support you need, wherever you are in the world!
Skillability Workshops - help with dissertation and reference planning
Looking for help starting your dissertation? Searching for ways to collect all the items you’ve read and seen?
There’s an opportunity to get some ideas and some thoughts about organisation by attending one of the Library’s Skillability Workshops running during the first week of June.
Go to the Skills for Learning page on the Library’s website and book your place now!
When applying for newly-qualified teacher jobs, you’ll almost certainly have to teach a demonstration lesson. Alan Newland shares his top 10 tips on how to plan for success
If you are applying for an newly-qualified teacher (NQT) position, you’ll almost certainly be asked to teach a demonstration lesson.
While it’s incredibly hard to get a job, it’s easy to let the pressures of the application process grind you down. But before you panic, here are some tips on how to prepare your test lesson effectively:
1. What’s the brief?
Read the brief carefully – make sure you know what’s expected of you. In secondary that might be quite detailed if it’s a practical session like physical education (PE), IT, technology or the sciences (though science practicals usually eat up too much time so they’re more likely to ask for a theoretical science lesson).
In primary, briefs can be much shorter, for example, “Read a story to a class of year 1” or “Teach a year 5 group on a topic of your choice”. These are intended to test your initiative and how creative you are in interpreting such a brief.
2. Who will I teach?
This could be any class within the phase you have trained for, but you should be told the specific year group in the brief. If not, ask. Try not to worry too much about whether the little buggers will behave; it’s unlikely the school will give you a challenging class. Senior staff will be observing too – usually the head of department and the deputy headteacher – so the kids should be on their best behaviour.
3. What can I ask for in advance?
Be careful about this because the way you set up and organise yourself – how creative and well prepared you are, and how much initiative you show – is part of what is being assessed. On the other hand, it shows initiative that you have bothered to phone and ask some clarifying questions, such as whether there will be any English as an additional language, special educational needs or “looked after” students in the group. Will there be a teaching assistant in the room and who will they work with?
4. Should I bring my own resources?
Don’t ask for 20 laminated colour photocopies of your favourite worksheet five minutes before the demo lesson is due to start – that won’t go down well. But if you have your own favourite resources, bring them. It’s not unreasonable to ask if any resources are supplied, especially if there is a practical element – just don’t be too demanding of the school’s time and facilities. For example, if you are doing an art demo lesson and you want to teach a particular technique like batik then you’d be advised to bring your own stuff with you.
Your CV has made the cut, now it’s time for presentations, demonstration lessons and psychometric tests. Here’s how to prepare for success
Interviews for teaching jobs used to involve a half-hour chat to a panel of well-meaning governors. But these days, they are more like physical and psychological assault courses with presentations, demonstration lessons, psychometric tests, observations and in-tray exercises. And if you’re applying for a senior teaching job, you need to prepare yourself for the practical tests as well as the formal interview.
Demonstration lessons
Even for senior teaching posts these are common; schools want to know you can still “walk the walk” in the classroom.
Read the brief carefully. In secondary schools it might be quite detailed, particularly if you’re expected to take a practical session in PE or science. Primary briefs can be more vague: you could be asked to take an assembly on a topic that tests your initiative and creativity.
Find out what year group you will be teaching, how many kids, whether student data will be available, how long the session will be and whether resources will be provided. Ask whether there will be any English as an additional language (EAL), special educational needs (SEN) or looked-after children – or a teaching assistant – in the class.
10 top tips for teachers heading into school senior leadership teams
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More than anything you will be expected to demonstrate a good model for teaching and learning, particularly in a middle or senior management position. Do you know your subject and can you manage a class? Do you have charisma in the classroom?
From 29 April 2015 assessment marks are only available via E-Vision
Released: Wednesday 29th April 2015 at 16:57
In-line with University policy intended to protect your personal data, University Library Services are now unable to provide assessment marks. To find out your assessment mark please either collect your marked assignment from the library or log-in to E-Vision where your Faculty will record your results.
We’re here to help you balance work, rest and play this exam time.
We have created a range of pop-up study spaces throughout our libraries to provide extra quiet and silent revision spaces for you.
We’re also offering a range of exciting pep-up activities - short, fun bursts of activity, games, relaxtion and skill top-ups to help you feel good, stay happy and do your very best.
Download the Pep-Up Programme app http://my.yapp.us/96BJ5C or visit the Library website to see the full programme.
Have you watched our library video yet showing all the ways we can help you succeed? Great resources, support, technology and spaces to learn (on-campus or online) are all vital to you getting the best out of your time at university. University Library Services is here to help you succeed!
Look out over the coming months for our brand new round the clock Library Talk live chat service.
You can already chat to the library every week day for more immediate answers to your library questions, but we will be expanding this service so that you can receive very quick library support 24 hours a day.
We’ll be promoting this on our library web pages and social media pages when it goes live so make sure you follow us on Twitter and Facebook
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Teacher recruitment falling short for third straight year
Missed trainee targets could lead to larger class sizes, Labour warns
Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, says the coalition’s policy in teacher recruitment is storing up problems for the future. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
The coalition is serially failing to match its own teacher recruitment goals, prompting critics to warn that there will be 27,000 fewer teachers in three years’ time than will be needed.
For the third year in a row the government is set to miss its target for trainee teachers across primary and secondary schools. Just 30,510 trainees have been placed in teacher training so far for 2014-15 – more than 4,000 short of the target and 7,700 fewer than were recruited in 2010.
If the government continues to fail to recruit teachers at the required rate or higher, the potential shortfall would force headteachers to increase class sizes, according to shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.
Hunt said: “David Cameron’s trainee teacher shortage is storing up trouble for our schools.
“This, alongside his decision to allow schools to permanently employ unqualified teachers and the crisis in primary school places that is leading soaring class sizes, shows just how deeply his Tory-led government is damaging standards for children.
If you’ve been using our library ebooks recently you might have noticed intermittent problems accessing or downloading titles through the Dawsonera supplier.
We would like to apologise for this and assure you that Dawson Books are working to resolve these problems as a matter of urgency. ...
Squads of high-quality teachers will be created and employed centrally, to be sent out to assist poorly performing schools
A hit squad of centrally employed teachers is to be created to be dispatched into so-called failing schools, David Cameron will announce on Monday.
Describing 500 schools as still failing, the prime minister will also give the hitherto low profile eight regional school commissioners extra powers to remove their leadership if deemed necessary.
Cameron, anxious to move away from the diet of Europe and immigration that has dominated political debate, will say experts will be consulted to help develop the “rescue package” which will be included in the Conservatives’ general election manifesto.
A National Teaching Service (NTS), funded by central government, is to be created, and would be made up of high-quality teachers ready to be sent out to poorly performing schools.
Regional school commissioners, who are unelected former head teachers and teaching experts, would be able to intervene in any state school ruled inadequate by the education watchdog, Ofsted.
It is the first initiative Cameron has undertaken with the new education secretary, Nicky Morgan, drafted into the cabinet to replace the unpopular Michael Gove. Morgan said that it had become necessary to “go further” and target schools where she said “failure has become ingrained”. She added: “We will not tolerate failure, and where we find it we will use tried and trusted interventions to turn things around in the interests of young people everywhere.”
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