The Scootle website (http://www.scootle.edu.au) provided by Education Services Australia is a free online resource for all Australian school educators. It affords access to more than 9,000 items of digital curriculum content from the The Le@rning Federation . It is a very accessible and user friendly way to find and use digital curriculum content in the classroom.
It gives teachers the opportunity to:
- Find interactive objects, images, audio files, movie clips via browse, search technology
- Create personal lists of resources (Learning paths)
- Find resources in a variety of ways
- Have access to teacher units
- Have access to assessment resources
- Have access to collections based on themes/topics
I have provided below a link of an example of a teaching resource that would have been useful for me on my first teaching round in a Foundation classroom:
https://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M008812
It is a teacher resource from AMSI (Australian Mathematics Science Institution) which has developed guides that provide the mathematical developmental continuum background to enable teachers, together with other resources, to plan for sequential development of mathematical ideas in their classrooms. The modules introduce students to the use of place value; counting; skip counting; one-to-one correspondence and ordering of numbers.
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