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Welcome to Wakeypedia, the Good Practice Guide for Teaching and Learning.

Sharing Good Practice in Teaching and Learning This wiki is intended to provide a valuable resource for practising teachers in all areas of formal education. It includes articles on a wide range of topics across the whole range of teaching activities, considerations and techniques. Individual practitioners can look to this Guide for inspiration in overcoming specific difficulties, guidance on methods of approaching particular aspects of the teacher’s role and recommendations of practices that others have found useful. Whether you’d like to brush up your existing knowledge, break new ground or overcome a specific problem, Wakeypedia should be a good place to start. Start Here Because different people will want to approach the resources of the Guide from different points of view, there are a number of different ways to get started. You might want to use the search box on the page to find articles mentioning specific key words. You can access the full contents of the guide as an indexed collection. You might want to study a particular topic in some depth, in which case the pathways created through the Guide articles are for you. If you’d like a jolt to promote a new idea, try the Media area. If what you're looking for isn't in the guide check the links collection where you’ll find references to the many other excellent teaching resources available online. > Contents < > Pathways < > Media < > Links < Start here to access the main contents of the guide Here you'll find organised pathways, or lessons, through different areas of the guide You can get a quick fix by going straight to the media goodies There are lots of great sites out there sharing good practice Contribute to the Guide The Guide is a wiki! Its strength lies in the fact that many people can contribute their own examples of good practice and their opinions of the existing content of the guide. To add your own content you'll need to start by creating an account. Please send an account request email to wakeypedia@gmail.com, including your basic contact details. Once you receive your login details you'll find that there's lots of help available and advice on what makes a good article. The Key Contributor Activities guide describes some of the mechanics involved in creating page content. The Wakeypedia Training page provides a collection of resources designed to help you develop your skills in working with Wakeypedia. There are also materials that can be used to incorporate Wakeypedia into your own Teacher Education course activities. Please join in! See Also Full Taxonomy Project Page

To join in editing Wakeypedia please send an account request email to wakeypedia@gmail.com, including your basic contact details. Unfortunately, because of the amount of automated spam being added to the site we've had to disable the ability for visitors to create their own accounts. About Us This project was developed by Wakefield College and made possible by funding from the Huddersfield Consortium for PCET.