Teacher education

I’ve recently became aware of the new Turning Point blog and thought I’d bring to your attention as well.

There are posts about the strategy for alcohol harm reduction and a number of charity campaigns involving in.

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Mladi Now withstand the smoke-free. They quote a spokeswoman for NR:

Health as not necessarily the best way to disseminate the message, though: “Young people think they are going to live forever, they are 13, she ” says.”Young women may think that models smoke to stay thin. It is more important to stress that smoking is the worst thing you can do for your skin and makes your breath smell.”

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DfES guidance on exercises isnbsp;welcome .

Guardian have a look at new guidelines on the class discussion:

What is the point at which it exercises only a few kids ever participate? Organizing the discussion area, where the teaching profession itself has appeared as a creative, as claimed. We come to the time the goods time after time. The existence of paired discussion, trios, talking in groups, Jigsaws, pairs fours, professional groups, the argument of tunnels, verbal tennis or any other fantastic techniques available to the teacher in front of the class and give all students a forum in which to express and develop their oracy skills. These techniques actually promote independent learning and adopting a teacher from the front side of him both the potential for being abused, and from the position of being the only source of knowledge in the room. There is really no reason, other than lack of preparation time, laziness or fear of noise for any teacher to bother with leading a “hands-up half-hour”.

This is aplicable to PSHE and drug education as any other subject.

As we found when doing the work on Positive Guidance on Aspects of Personal, Social and Health Education there a number of ways that teachers can actively engage their pupils in learning, which we hope contributes to effective drug education.

Dfes guidance on class discussions is welcome

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