We're recruiting for an exciting new position based in South Yorkshire for a part-time Primary School Teacher.

Join our team: Primary School Teacher in South Yorkshire (FTC)

<div>We're recruiting for an exciting new position based in South Yorkshire for a part-time Primary School Teacher. </div><div> </div><div>Key Information </div><div>Job title: Primary school teacher contractor </div><div>Contract info: 1 year contract (with a possibility of extension to 3 years) </div><ul><li>Salary: £24k pro rata (£40,000 FTE)</li><li>3 days a week&nbsp;</li><li>Location: South Yorkshire - in and around (but not exclusive to) Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley and Hatfield</li><li>Reports to: Head of Education</li><li>Start date: 2 September 2024</li></ul> About Tech She Can Our mission at <a href="https://techshecan.org/">Tech She Can</a> is to ensure children across the UK aspire to pursue, and can access pathways into tech careers. As a charity, we bring together the collective experience and expertise of our member organisations to tackle the talent shortage and lack of diversity in UK technology.&nbsp; <div>In October 2023, we celebrated our second birthday as an independent charity and published our second <a href="https://techshecan.org/our-impact">Impact Report</a>.&nbsp; </div><div>It is an exciting time to be joining us. We are committed to our vision for women to be equal in creating and developing the new technology, business, products and services that shape our world, ensuring that technology works for all. </div><div>The role We’re looking for an experienced (at least five years) Primary School teacher to join our growing Education team to help deliver on a new project for Tech She Can which begins in September 2024.&nbsp; You will deliver the Tech We Can resources to KS2 children in primary schools across rural areas of West Yorkshire to inspire the students to consider future careers in technology. You’ll work closely with the wider Education team for training in this material and then be required to travel to schools in and around these areas to deliver Tech We Can sessions. Post delivery you’ll be collecting feedback from teachers and students and create impact reports to deliver to the sponsors of this project.&nbsp; </div><div>About you&nbsp; </div><ul><li>Mission-aligned: you are passionate about inspiring children and young people to consider a future in STEAM and beyond.</li><li>At least 5 years teaching experience at a primary school level.</li><li>Confident and comfortable using technology to create and deliver learning solutions.</li><li>Committed to ensuring learning solutions are creative, inclusive, inspiring and engaging.</li><li>People oriented: you’re friendly, approachable, and a team player.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communicator to both adults and children.</li><li>Can-do mindset: we’re a small, fast-paced start-up on a big mission so you’ll need to hit the ground running and work with us on common goals and to short timescales.</li><li>Based in South Yorkshire or within reasonable travelling distance.</li><li>Have existing contacts and relationships with schools across South Yorkshire.</li></ul><div>&nbsp; Key responsibilities </div><ul><li>Build and maintain relationships with target schools in order to arrange regular school visits.</li><li>Deliver Tech She Can educational resources to students both virtually and in person.</li><li>Represent the charity externally as an ambassador across high-profile networks.</li><li>Continuously review and evaluate the effectiveness of the Tech She Can educational resources.</li><li>Collect impact data from students and teachers and create a termly impact report for the project.&nbsp;</li><li>Present termly impact report to sponsoring member organisations.</li></ul><div> Next steps: Email us your CV with a supporting cover letter highlighting your skills that are relevant for this role, and why you’d like to support our mission to our Head of Education becky@techshecan.org with the email title “Primary School teacher contract ”. Closing date for the role is 19 April 2024.&nbsp; </div>

We've created two short videos to help explain the significance of International Women's Day to children.

Celebrating International Women's Day with children

With only 3% of women citing a career in technology as their first choice,&nbsp; on International Women’s Day - and always - Tech She Can is on a mission to address this imbalance. We are ensuring that women and girls have equal access to and ownership of tech industries so that their skills and creativity can be harnessed to make and use technology that works for all.We’ve put together two short videos one for children aged 5+ and the other for children aged 11+&nbsp; to help explain the importance of this day to children, to highlight inequalities that exist between women and men and to share ways children can help make the world a fairer place.Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or guardian, we hope you find these videos useful either as part of a school assembly or lesson or simply to spark a valuable and interesting conversation with your own children. &nbsp;

Tech We Can Guest Blog - Ways to Save Time With AI In Education

In my last teaching job, I was really starting to see the potential of technology in lessons. And I don’t just mean smart boards, or I-Pads. Augmented reality meant you could show pupils the surface of Mars. Online parent evenings became a possibility with the help of Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet. But AI took everything to another level.&nbsp;I still remember the first time I’d seen ChatGPT do its thing. Among some of the prompts, I asked the AI to write 10 school mottos, a list of classroom rules, and a haiku about winter.It did all three within seconds. Are they perfect? 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But you can quickly sign up with a Google account and get it working at the click of a button. All you need is a prompt and you’re ready.For example, if you want to create an article on the health benefits of chocolate, or write a script for a year 6 school play, all you need to do is type in the request. And the AI will make something in seconds.Disclaimer: It’s not always perfect. But it’s a brilliant shortcut if you need something for a lesson, and you don’t have time to search the Internet.What AI Tools Can You Use?There have been a myriad of different AI tools cropping up ever since, which claim to be all-singing and all-dancing. And some tools are really specific, from background removers to QR code generators.&nbsp;Most people use the free version of <a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt">ChatGPT</a>. It’s a decent one size fits all. For those working in a school, educational companies, like Twinkl have come up with their own version called <a href="https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ai">Twinkl Ari in their AI Hub</a>.&nbsp;Why Should You Try AI?What AI can and should do is still up for debate. But one thing we can all agree on is that it can save people a lot of time when it comes to more intensive and repetitive tasks.&nbsp;What might take an hour for a person can be completed in half the time with AI. It’s fast. Very fast. And it’s a fantastic tool for teacher admin.Ways AI Can Save Time In EducationAs an educator, I don’t believe AI can do everything. But like me, if you’re wondering how you can make the most of it, here are some ways AI can save you time: 1. Creating Templates - Emails / LettersFor reporting pupil progress, preparing consent forms and beyond, communicating with pupil’s families is a massive part of working in a school. But writing those emails or letters takes up precious time, which usually means a longer day at work.AI can make short work of this, writing templates for your emails and letters.&nbsp; 2. Writing Example Texts For ActivitiesIf you’ve struggled to find examples of articles online without all the heavy advertisements and awkward formatting, or nothing in the textbooks quite fits around your lesson plan, this is a wonderful teacher hack.You can even ask the AI to intentionally make spelling errors in the text for a quick proofreading activity. 3. Produce Summaries and ReportsAI can also be used to speed up your reading and reporting process. If you have a large chunk of text, you can feed it to the AI and ask it for a summary. You can also reverse the process, asking for a report or longer comment based on a single sentence - useful for pupil report writing. 4. Search and FindLike a search engine, AI can scour the web for you and search out answers to your questions. If you need a list of sources on a topic, it can find them in a heartbeat. No more hours spent going through the search results yourself.Is AI Worth It?Overall, AI software should be taken with a pinch of salt. For content creators, media and SEO, it’s rocked the boat substantially. Having blurred the lines of copyright, originality and in some cases, even accuracy, many users proceed with caution when using it to create anything original.On the other hand, with the right building blocks, it can take the biggest tasks and automate them without any hassle. Signing up is easy, and at the moment, a lot of it is free to use.&nbsp;So why not, right?&nbsp;Article installation complete.About the authorThis blog post was written by <a href="https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/author/adam-morris">Adam Morris</a> who works as a Content Executive for the <a href="https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources">KS1 team at Twinkl</a>. Adam has a keen interest in edtech, gamification and using digital resources to improve engagement in literacy.Want to know more about technology in education? Discover the marvels of technology with Tech We Can.

To celebrate Safer Internet Day 2024, we’re launching a brand new live lesson exploring Tech for AI, in collaboration with Accenture.

NEW Live lesson launch 🚀: Tech for AI

We’re excited to be launching the first of our new interactive live lessons on Tech for AI, in collaboration with Accenture. AI is rapidly advancing and this lesson will help students and teachers understand the impact of AI on all aspects of our lives. It will also highlight the many exciting careers and jobs available working with and developing AI. There are two lessons, which you can access using the videos above:&nbsp; Key Stage 2 / P4 - P7 in Scotland (Age 7-11) Key Stage 3 / S1 - S2 in Scotland (Age 11 - 14) &nbsp;During the lesson our experienced teacher delivers a virtual 60 minute interactive session, which includes lots of opportunity for partner talks, tasks, quizzes and videos. Pupils will be guided to complete paper-based tasks and partner discussions - they therefore need to be based at a table with a piece of paper and pen/pencil. This session is being delivered to complement Safer Internet Day 2024. Safer Internet Day takes place in February of each year to raise awareness of a safer and better internet for all, and especially for children and young people. However, it can be used at anytime during the school year as the content is relevant to many parts of the curriculum. Remember to check out our upcoming Live Lessons where you can join thousands of other pupils on Microsoft Teams and enjoy the virtual lessons together: <a href="https://techshecan.org/live-assemblies">Assemblies &amp; Lessons - TechSheCan</a>&nbsp;You can <a href="https://techshecan.org/tech-we-can#subscribe">sign up to our newsletter</a> and follow us on social media for updates on our next session: <a href="https://x.com/Tech_She_Can/status/1715035796674097563?s=20">X/Twitter </a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7120801454092611584">LinkedIn </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TechSheCan/posts/pfbid0Uy1huoEZjaxCkqvYkc8ZR2Cu47cBqBwbZZPGrUS9WMLZThXJpC98FAE2Q8r7QVwQl">Facebook</a>

Careers education should start in primary school so that more children – and especially girls – have better chances of careers in tech.

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PRESS RELEASE: Gender Stereotypes Threatening Digital Revolution

<div>Careers education should start in primary school so that more children – and especially girls – have better chances of careers in tech, according to a new survey. </div><div>The survey of primary school teachers, carried out for Tech She Can – a charity campaigning for an increase in the number of women in tech careers – was launched today at Bett, the leading edtech conference being held at the ExCel, London. </div><div>Three key themes emerge from the research,&nbsp; each with major implications for future efforts to close the gender gap in STEM.&nbsp; </div><div>STEM stereotypes start early and are putting girls off tech careers. 71% of teachers believe that gender stereotypes around STEM careers start before the age of 11. Teachers say there are too few inclusive and diverse role models in career materials, with only half of respondents saying the careers materials they have access to are inclusive and diverse.&nbsp; </div><div>The STEM aspiration gap - gender and social mobility have a multiplying effect, with girls' who experience disadvantages more likely to perceive that a tech career is not for them. Despite 25% of girls enjoying STEM subjects more than boys, girls in state school are 69% less likely to aspire to STEM careers than boys. </div><div>Teachers need better career resources - the majority of primary school teachers believe that careers education is important, but only a small minority can access sufficient careers experiences for their students. 75% of primary teachers believe that careers education is important in primary schools, but only 15% of primary teachers felt that the career experiences they had access to were sufficient for their students. </div><div>The survey was carried out for Tech She Can by Templeton &amp; Partners, the tech recruitment agency.&nbsp; It surveyed 287 primary school teachers about the barriers in delivering STEM education and how government, businesses and charities can help schools to support female students into STEM careers. </div><div>Tech She Can commissioned the report because while <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cfe713fed915d097daca4b5/No_Longer_Optional_Employer_Demand_for_Digital_Skills.pdf">80% of jobs in the UK</a> require at least some digital skills, females remain chronically under-represented in tech jobs.&nbsp; This means not only is the country missing out on wide pools of potential talent, but girls are excluded from rewarding career paths and lifetimes of opportunities.&nbsp; </div><div>Tech She Can says the survey shows why starting awareness of STEM careers at an early age is vital to preventing stereotypes and perceptions that STEM is not for girls.&nbsp; </div>Sheridan Ash, founder and Co-CEO of Tech She Can, said: “Today’s report finds that the saying, ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’ has never been more pertinent. Teachers overwhelmingly believe that children need real-life examples of&nbsp; relatable role models and information on career paths.“Girls are more likely to enjoy STEM subjects, but boys are more likely to believe in a tech career. The findings of the report show that gender and social mobility have a multiplying effect on gender stereotypes surrounding careers. Education must focus on widening inclusion in both areas to understand, identify, and address all barriers preventing girls from getting into STEM, and government and business must play their part too.”<div>Tech She Can is calling for STEM Careers education to: &nbsp; </div><ul><li>Start in Primary Schools, supporting teachers with easy-to-access resources, showing how technology links to multiple areas of the curriculum.</li><li>Bridge the gap between education and industry by showcasing diverse, relatable real life role models, the breadth and depth of careers and the different pathways into employment.</li><li>Play to children’s passions and interests with engaging and interactive lessons and materials such as animations, digital lessons, videos, games and detailed lesson packs.</li></ul>Tech She Can’s education programme ‘Tech We Can’ is launching a series of Live Lessons to help pupils explore technology and inspire pupils, created by qualified teachers in collaboration with industry. Their upcoming LIVES take pupils age 7 to 14 on a journey to demystify AI, explore outer space, and delve into the world of wearable tech in sport and are aimed at pupils. Registration is now open: <a href="https://techshecan.org/live-assemblies">https://techshecan.org/live-assemblies</a>&nbsp; ---ends--- <div>Notes to editors </div><ul><li><a href="https://techshecan.org/">Tech She Can</a> is on a mission to change the ratio of women in technology. The charity inspires girls and boys about careers in technology through <a href="https://techshecan.org/tech-we-can">Tech We Can</a>, a programme of free and inclusive resources and experiences for schools, created by qualified teachers in collaboration with industry. It provides resources and experiences free of charge to primary and secondary schools, including <a href="https://techshecan.org/on-demand-lessons">Lessons</a>, <a href="https://techshecan.org/live-assemblies">Assemblies</a> and <a href="https://techshecan.org/animated-lessons">Animations</a>.</li><li>Tech She Can is industry backed and receives core funding from its strategic partners: Accenture, Barclays, Centrica, Computeam, Credit Suisse, Develop, Deutsche Bank, Discover, eduthing, Google, Houseful - the home of Zoopla, Kyndryl, Morgan Stanley, NatWest Group, PwC UK, Savannah, TEKSystems, Tesco, The Hut Group, Unilever, University of Birmingham and UST.&nbsp;</li><li>Since it launched in 2021 the charity provided lessons to 63,000 children and a further 325,000 have enjoyed its online resources.&nbsp;</li><li>The full Tech She Can 2023 Impact Report can be accessed <a href="https://api.techshecan.org/storage/files/Tech-She-Can-2023-Impact-Report.pdf">here</a> and a video of its impact can be found <a href="https://techshecan.org/our-impact">here</a>.&nbsp;</li></ul>

PRESS RELEASE: Gender Stereotypes Threatening the Digital Revolution

Our Co CEO Dr Claire Thorne is a passionate believer in small moments making a big difference.

"What did you do today?" Why every adult should practice active careers inspiration with young people in their lives

Our CO CEO Dr Claire Thorne provided some thoughts on simple ways that you can have a big impact on young people’s aspirations. Here she gives her top tips on where to start: “Do you practice active careers inspiration? When children start to be curious about your job and ask you, “What did you do today?” don't just shut the conversation down and say ‘I do lots of emails’, or ‘I give presentations’. Instead, think about what interactions you’re having, who you’re working with, and why. What’s the goal? What tools are you using? Where are you working? What’s the environment, and your team, really like? And how do you know that you’ve done a good job, and how did it make you feel? Was there some place, something or someone that really inspired you today?&nbsp;“This could be around the breakfast table with a young person in your life, or it could be with a family friend. Anywhere really! And it’s never too early to start - especially as harmful gender stereotypes start to become embedded at such a young age. &nbsp;“Little and often is the key. If we wait to age 14, 15, 16 - when many children engage in formal work experience placements - to start discussing careers and pathways, and linking their passions to opportunities, it’s already too late.&nbsp;“So many of us ask children ‘what do you want to BE when you grow up?’ Children may not know the name of a particular role. Especially if they haven’t seen it themselves - in their everyday - or if it doesn’t have a uniform. Instead, try asking ‘what do you want to DO, change or build?’. Suddenly it’s not about a particular role or job title. It all feels less abstract. You will be amazed by their response and ignite their imagination!”“If you want to take active careers inspiration to the next level, you can become a Tech We Can Champion. It’s free. And it’s a great way to spend your CSR / volunteer days you may get at work. It’s fulfilling, and enlightening! The programme is open to everyone. We provide full training and packs to deliver lessons to primary and secondary children across the UK virtually or in-person. Since we became a charity, more than 500 men and women Champions have completed the training and delivered lessons to over 33,000 pupils. It’s incredible. These are real-life role models reaching and inspiring children in classrooms. They’re opening their eyes to the opportunities and benefits of tech careers, and so often they plant a seed - helping to set them on a path.“Our ambition is for our school’s programme, Tech We Can, to reach every child across the UK, at multiple times, at the moments that&nbsp; matter. We know that repeated and sustained interactions have the biggest impact. &nbsp;If you would like to support us, email us at <a href="mailto:info@techshecan.org">info@techshecan.org</a> we’d love to hear from you.&nbsp;Follow us on social media for further updates.&nbsp;Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TechSheCan">https://www.facebook.com/TechSheCan</a>LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/techshecan/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/techshecan/</a>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/techshecan/">https://www.instagram.com/techshecan/</a>X/Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Tech_She_Can">https://twitter.com/Tech_She_Can</a>&nbsp;

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Join our team: Primary School Teacher in South Yorkshire (FTC)

Celebrating International Women's Day with children

Tech We Can Guest Blog - Ways to Save Time With AI In Education

NEW Live lesson launch 🚀: Tech for AI

PRESS RELEASE: Gender Stereotypes Threatening the Digital Revolution

"What did you do today?" Why every adult should practice active careers inspiration with the young people in their lives