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Collaboration Skills

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How can collaboration skills be developed in primary education? Collaboration is the means of interdependent problem solving. Fagin (1992) stated that collaboration ‘requires the recognition of complementary roles.’ This is supported by Johnson and Johnson (1999) as they defined collaboration as ‘a set of teaching and learning strategies that help promote student partnership in small groups,’ this helps to enhance other children’s and their own personal learning.    Children need to begin to learn life skills from the primary school setting as they move through life, as then they can apply them to situations they come across in daily life as they grow older. The Inter-Agency Network for Education (INEE, 2015) stated that to get children working together by suggesting the following: ·       Hold open sessions/lessons in and across schools ·       Designate teachers to work as pairs so that children can plan and w...
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Welsh Language

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What is the Value of the Welsh Language in Primary Education? When living and learning in Wales it is easily assumed that the language is taught to carry on the traditions, however I believe there is most defiantly more to why it is valued. The Welsh Government (2017) agreed and stated that ‘the Welsh Language is integral to those reforms, as it is to the government-wide objectives of building resilient communities, culture and language and promoting and protecting Wales’ place in the world.’ It was found that the language is still commonly used, when conducting investigations into how people in Wales used the language. Gov.Wales (2015) found in a survey that found in Wales that 47% of welsh speakers were fluent of with the language, and 53% quoted that they used the welsh language daily. Additionally, BERA (2016) conducted a study into pupil’s views on the Welsh language being taught in schools. The results found that 64.5% of the children thought that it was important to ...
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Science and Technology

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How Science and Technology activities be made engaging and relevant in Primary Education? Children nowadays love to be involved and like to get hands on when it comes to creating their own learning. Science and technology are open subjects that means they can use practical assignments as well as written, meaning they can switch up the learning in different ways. Donaldson (2015) stated that ‘Science and Technology are closely linked, each depending on the other. Science involves acquiring knowledge through observation and experimentation, and technology applies scientific knowledge in other ways’. In the modern twenty first century, the role that technology is becoming part of all lives in both learning and teaching and is having a major impact as we all become believers of a new digital community.(Mishra, Koehler & Henriksen, 2011) Within the classroom if a child is asked if they want to do a task manually or on a piece of technology, they are going to pick the dig...
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Health and Well-Being - Obesity and Yoga

Health and Well-Being - Obesity and Yoga Health and Well-being in the primary school setting is so important. The topic being taught in school's will be such a good influence on the young children, to start them looking after themselves properly from a young age. Within the Welsh Educational system, one of the new proposed ideas of Donaldson (2015) was to increase healthy, self-assured pupils to help them fell better in themselves which will boost the way that they learn.  When children feel better within themselves, it means they feel better when working as they have more energy and life to them. This means that they won't always be tired from working so don't usually want to make any effort, instead will get more involved in there work. By the children getting more involved with subjects that help boost there well-being such as physical education and healthy eating, they will have the a bigger ability to live independently, healthily and responsibly (DfE, 2013) Nowada...
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