Teacher Training: Useful Websites
This guide contains all the resources and services available from the library to support Teacher Training courses within the College of Education and Social Work.
Websites can be particularly useful for:
- Keeping you up to date with research and developments in your discipline
- Informing you of guidelines, standards and best practice
- Alerting you to training and employment opportunities
Government organisations
- Birmingham City ObservatoryProvides data around themes such as children, education, deprivation within the Birmingham area
- Department for EducationThe Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England
- GOV.UKGovernment services and information
- OfqualThe Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England
- OFSTEDOfsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. It inspects services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. It also inspects and regulates services that care for children and young people.
Professional organisations
- CRECThe Centre for Research in Early Childhood is dedicated to raising the quality of early childhood education and care.
- Headteacher UpdateThe only magazine for al UK primary school headteachers
- NASENNational Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN) is a charitable membership organisation that exists to support and champion those working with, and for, children and young people with SEND and learning differences.
- NFERNational Foundation for Educational Research produces high-quality, independent, research and insights to inform key decisions makers about issues across the education system
Teaching Resources
- BBC BitesizeBBC Bitesize offers revision tips and activities for all levels of education.
- BBC TeachBBC Teach offers free classroom resources to schools throughout the UK. Find thousands of free curriculum-linked class clips on BBC Teach to help you deliver lessons - all arranged by subject and age group.
- FutureLearn SchoolsFutureLearn Schools offers free access to hundreds of online educational courses for school students aged 13+, to continue and expand their learning.
- Historic England Education ResourceFree online learning resources which have been created to help primary school teachers engage key stage two pupils in the history of building. Includes over 10,000 Educational Images, specially selected and re-captioned from the Archive of Historic England.
- Weiner Holocaust LibraryThe Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, the Library's unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony.