Resources for students on teaching practice

If you are on student placement in a school you may find getting to the Library difficult. The Library has fantastic online collections of Education ebooks and journal articles available in full-text. To make finding online materials a bit more straightforward, a customised version of Library Search is available below that will find online materials only. 

If you would like to search across all of our collections (print and online) you can still use the standard version of Library Search

 



 

Using Library Search: guide for Education students studying online [WORD]

School Experience Collection

The Library has many resources to support students on placement in schools such as children's books (fiction & non fiction) and other useful materials which can be found in the School Experience Collection on Level 4 of the Library. These resources cover the nursery, primary and secondary curriculum.

Videos

We have a large collection of online education videos on all aspects of curriculum on the Teachers TV database. This database provides access to almost 4000 instructional videos, produced by the United Kingdom's Department of Education. Its designed to train and develop teachers' skills through demonstrations and commentary by teachers, administrators, and other educational experts all aspects of the curriculum. This material is available to stream online.

Children's Literature Collection

The children’s literature collection is located on Level 4 of the Library. It is not a comprehensive collection of children’s fiction – in general, public libraries will have larger and more varied collections. The collection comprises novels, short stories, and picture books for pre-school, primary and secondary reading & includes contemporary and classic works. The collection is designed to support the work of student teachers on school placement. It therefore reflects those authors and themes which are, or have been, popular in Scottish schools.   The collection also includes most of the prize-winning books from the various children's book prizes, such as the Scottish Book Trust, Waterstones Children's Books of the Year and the Carnegie Medal that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults.   

The collection includes a historical section which includes with fiction, non-fiction and school textbooks. The children’s fiction & non fiction historical collection comprises items from the middle of the nineteen century up to the nineteen thirties.  It includes examples of all the popular contemporary genres, such as school stories, stories with a strong religious/moral element, and adventure stories.  It also contains examples of some of the most popular magazines of the time such as “Chums” and the “Girls Own Annual”.  Additional interest is provided by the many colour plates and illustrations within these items, and by the fact that a number of them were “presentation copies”, i.e. prizes for school work or Sunday school attendance etc, and still have the original certificates pasted in. The School textbooks collection daties approximately from the period of the 1872 Education Act to the 1965 Primary Memorandum.   

The Library also holds the Blackie & Son Archive of children’s textbooks published between 1882 and 1976 by the Blackie & Son publishing house. Blackie & Son produced both fiction and non-fiction educational books for children and was operational from 1806 until 1991, with premises in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, and later India and Canada. For more information on the Blackie Archive see the three Library blogposts on the collection.

Internet sites

In addition to the resources mentioned above, students may well find it worthwhile to explore the wide range of teaching resources available on the internet. There are a great many internet sites produced by and for teachers, too many to list here, but the following are some of the best:

A collection of childrens books