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From the National Union of Teachers website http://www.teachers.org.uk
Saturday May 17 2008

Treaure chest

A Treasure Chest of information, original research and material relating to all sectors and key issues in Education. Before you write that essay, look here!

General Education Policy: Includes Roles of teacher support staff, Pupil Achievement, The campaign against National Curriculum tests, targets and school league tables, Teacher-led School Improvement, Teachers Leaving by Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson, School workforce pathfinder project, and much more.
Early years: Includes The Foundation Stage and the National Literacy Strategy, The response from the NUT to the DfEE consultation on national standards for the regulation of daycare and childminding in England, Baseline Assessment 2001, Guidance on Perfomance Management for headteachers and deputy headteachers, and more.
Primary: Primary Curriculum and Teaching Action Plan, National Curriculum tests, A life in teaching - the impact of change on primary teachers' working lives, The case against testing in England, and Oh, let us be 'suns' again.
Secondary: Pupil Achievement, The NUT's response to phase 2 of the A level inquiry, Review of National Curriculum assessment: changes to statutory tests at the end of Key Stage 1-3, Diversity in secondary education, Comprehensive education and diversity, NUT Work Experience Guidelines, and much more.
Sixth form: Performance management framework, Funding Of School Sixth Forms, 14-19: Extending Opportunities, Raising Standards, 16-19 Organisation and Inspection: Consultation Document, Joint NUT and NATFHE survey on GNVQ assessment piloting, and much more.
Equal opportunities:Anti-racist Curriculum Guidelines 2001, Equal Opportunities - a Whole School Approach, Whatever Happened to Equal Opportunities in schools, Meeting the needs of teachers with disabilities, Winning for Women, Gender and education: NUT policy statement, and more.
Life/work balance: Parental leave, Part time teachers - NUT Survey, Education of school age parents, Time off for family and domestic reasons, Length of school session times, and more.
Literacy and numeracy: The Foundation Stage and the National Literacy Strategy, NUT survey on the pilot of the National Literacy Strategy for Key Stage 3, Anita Straker discusses Numeracy Strategy, and Key Stage 3 Literacy: the expansion of the National Literacy Strategy.
ICT: Extract from ICTTeacher Spring 2003 : Plymouth Rocks, Memorandum from the NUT to the inquiry of the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons into Science Education from 14-19, and NOF ICT training initiative.
Special needs: Issues September: Special Schools, At the heart of special education, Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Disability: Finding your way around, At the heart of special education, NUT Response to DfEE Draft Guidance 'social Inclusion: Pupil Support', and more.
Privatisation: The privatisation of education - an overview, LEA Outsourcing, Future developments, Academies, Private Finance Initiative/Public Private Partnerships (PFI/PPPs), A summary of developments in LEAs that have been identified as failing or having serious weaknesses, DfES Approved Service Providers, and more.
Teacher training: Repayment of Student Loans for Teachers of Shortage Subjects, Recruitment and Retention incentives in England, Qualified Teacher Status skills tests 2002/2003, OFSTED Initial Teacher Training inspection, Induction Standards Consultation, NUT work experience survey and more.
Inspections: OFSTED LEA inspections NUT briefing - March 2002, The response of the NUT to the OFSTED draft framework for School Inspection, Evaluation, inspection and support - a system that works, Schools Speak For Themselves, School Inspections, Evaluating educational inclusion, and more.
Independent Schools: Independent schools: Ten good reasons to join us, Independent schools: Opportunity, Independent schools: Protection, Independent schools: Influence, Independent schools: Professionalism.