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...maths lesson. Teaching assistants are a very significant and essential resource in primary classrooms, so much so that it is hard to imagine how schools could manage without them. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course E111 Supporting learning in primary schools. This unit is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn...Teaching assistants: Support in...

...maths concepts is a form of digital learning. Digital technologies are evolving very rapidly; children born in 1990 in many countries had no internet connection, used tapes to listen to music, and had no cell or mobile phones. More than 25 years later, the technology landscape has changed dramatically; children are now born in a society where digital technologies are used...

...Maths calculations so she could easily rub out any mistakes and take photos of her correct answers. Learn with others – As a distance learner it is quite likely that you won’t meet other students face to face. However, research tells us that learning is most effective when done with other people. Increasingly in distance education, students will interact with one...

...maths, science, philosophy – they typically need a passive phase followed eventually by creativity and finally by ‘curating’ the individual’s own ideas. [Described image] Figure 1 Wheeler’s engagement pyramid of digital learning. If you consider Wheeler’s pyramid, this pattern becomes clear. The wide base of the engagement pyramid suggests that a great deal of...

...maths and computer sciences). Disciplinary knowledge is more than just facts and includes methods, theories, concepts and perspectives too. Nowadays the word ‘discipline’ is used interchangeably with ‘subject’ as you will find throughout this course. The terms ‘multidisciplinary, ‘interdisciplinary’, ‘cross disciplinary’ and ‘transdisciplinary’ are...

...maths literacy courses and then on to HLTA. Also, just recently to finish my course on PSHE and got a certificate from the university for that, and I enjoy my job very much. We’re sharing ideas. I think the more courses you go on and the more qualifications you get on, I think it helps you to enhance and to help children with their learning abilities as well as with my...