As a result teachers have been putting their minds to finding ways in which equipment, originally purchased for one subject area, can be used elsewhere.
A perfect example of this is the visualiser. Originally viewed as an aid to science teaching, this piece of equipment (which displays 3D objects and live subjects onto a screen) is now being used in every part of the school.
At Warren Junior School, for example, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham a visualiser is regularly used to allow pupils to show and explain how a piece of music was developed at the keyboard.
Elsewhere, art teachers have found that the visualiser means both teacher and pupils can view objects from the same angle thus allowing a discussion about line and tone, shading and shadow.
Science teachers have expanded their use of the equipment to include taking live video feeds to enable a whole class to view mini-beasts with everyone viewing and discussing the same images together. Meanwhile in technology the visualiser is used to reveal the details of printed circuit board construction and soldering skills to whole groups.
Back in the primary school the visualiser even has a place in the teaching of handwriting.
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