Archive for the ‘Protocols’ Category
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Thanks to Greg Carroll from New Zealand for the link. I'm talking more and more in the staff room and off the cuff comments about the social medium of web 2.0 at staff meetings these days. There seems some tensions around this in schools!
I recently thought about a "communication problem" at ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
One of the central themes of the Big Day Out this year was to "get smart and open the classrooms doors" so that instruction, which can often seen as private teacher business, can be seen and improved. Each year Darrell Fraser, the deputy secretary of the Department [DEECD] gathers together all the principals ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
At this weeks district Principal's meeting we heard a report from one of DEECD's appointed teacher coaches working in our local public schools. She spoke about frustrations over the system's need for accountability data verses the need to just do it with people and I understand both view points. Her report ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
This week we took the second step in learning to use protocols to look at student work. At the staff meeting the leadership team modelled the process using a fishbowl technique.
Teacher feedback from last weeks introduction to protocols indicated more learning experiences were required before they were ready to use one. The leadership team ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
We posed this question at a team leadership meeting last year when we discussed the quest to personalise learning more for our students?
Perhaps one answer came after we introduced the idea to staff last week - it's a bit like moderating student work except I might get more of a say. Using a ...
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