Archive for the ‘Accountability’ Category
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Last month David Rease Jnr from Harvard visited Elsternwick to view our progress in implementing the Data Wise: Inquiry Approach to Improving Instruction in schools. We were quite chuffed at David's visit and recorded this clip to capture some of his initial observations and reflections.
As you will hear he commented on ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2012
At a recent regional Principal conference I heard Vic Zbar, an educational consultant based in Victoria; speak about personalising teaching and learning. Personalising learning he put it was really an outcome of differentiation.
Vic then made a number of points I thought worth repeating:
There is generally too much whole class teaching ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
Last month I was fortunate to hear Mark Treadwell [pictured above] speak to a group of aspirant leaders I am mentoring. He had some I think important things to say about learning and I think leadership.
He began the morning making the case for a new paradigm shift for learning. He quoted the ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Over the past 2 months we have focused on preparing our teachers to differentiate instruction.
I'm writing this post to explain to readers within my own community why this emphasis on preparation and why we need to adopt three different strategies at the same time to gain the improvement in student ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
I've been reflecting lately on our strategic plan which lists a number of worthwhile actions and improvement goals.
I know the goals as the principal as I interact with the plan on a regular basis but I wonder if they are remembered by everyone at school? The goals are not displayed ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I don't think many teachers would disagree with the idea that its a good thing to use student assessment data to try and determine what students need to learn next, at least in Victorian schools - or would they?
Often teachers disagree on what student assessment data they find useful for one ...
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
This past fortnight I have talked about my schools performance on national tests to school council [NAPLAN] and now I've seen lots of editorials and responses in newspapers about Australia's performance in the recent international tests in maths and science for years 4 and 8 students called TIMMS.
Kevin Donnelly wrote in the ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Today whilst hearing about the Departments latest version of the school review I had one of those light bulb moments when I heard a school reviewer talk about student transitions.
To put this into context in Victoria all public schools have a school review every four years. There are various types ...
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