Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category
Monday, April 26th, 2010
At year level leadership meetings we often read and discuss shared articles or writing from noted educators. Last week we discussed chapter two of Shirley Clarke's book on feedback titled "Learning Intentions".
One of her opening lines is
"It is generally true that the more covered, the less learnt" [p 17]
Aside from ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
When I first listened to this address by 12 yo Adora I was rather skeptical and amazed. Her use of language is amazing but her message is simply.
We need to hear student voice in curriculum development - so if you plan your inquiry learning unit without seeking student background knowledge ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
At our regular team leaders meeting where we gain an overview of curriculum planning across the school we discussed what readers workshops look like for older primary aged students.
Our problem of practice started out about identifying what students are doing to process reading texts whilst we may be teaching in ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Over the past week newspapers all over Australia have featured articles and editorials on the Federal Governments new tax payer funded website "My School" which will allow parents [and others] to see how their schools rates against the national average in a series of tests [NAPLAN] and benchmarks [ i.e. ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Have a quick flick through this presentation as we in Australia shut down for the summer school holiday period. I'm reminded of a now famous quote "Yes we can" when I see this. I remember as far back as the spirit duplicator - what about you?
The presentation comes from Alan ...
Posted in Assessment, Collaborative Communities, Instruction, Reading, Teaching, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Clips, Walkthroughs, school | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Last week I attended a presentation by Di Snowballwho has recently returned from working in schools in the States for over 16 years. Di has been contracted to work in some regions in Victoria to hlep "struggling" schools, I gather, however during this presentation to a group of principals she made ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
We have discovered this wonderful resources from the Canadian Curriculum Services which has great web casts with similar challenges to our schools: http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/april18.shtml
We have been revising our understandings about reading instruction and what certain teaching strategies look and sound like. Up to this point point we had been revising guided ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
It seems writing is now more in focus than reading.
Over the last 6 months I have heard and read a great deal about the power of writing and how the model needs to change in schools. I wrote about Douglas Reeves using the 90/90/90 schools research as a case for ...
Posted in Leadership, Reading, Teaching, Uncategorized, school, writing | 4 Comments »
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
I visited Matthew Needlemans blog and really like the way his is trying to get his students to anchor their reading comprehension skills through the creation of posters that students can connect to. Often charts displayed in rooms don't provide reminders to students about strategies they can use when learning ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I was fortunate to hear Douglas Reeves for the second time at the recent ACEL conference in Melbourne. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Center for Performance Assessment, an organization dedicated to improving student achievement and educational equity.
In his address and subsequent workshop he made many points ...
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