Archive for the ‘Collaborative Communities’ Category
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Thanks to Greg Carroll, a principal in NZ, I found this clip on dysfunctional teams which seems to make some sense. We often hear about how to build teams and make productive meetings well this clips comes from the other perspective. The key word TRUST and leaders being prepared to ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Earlier this month the Beachside Network of Schools Instructional Rounds group had its first 'Round". Thanks to the generous support of the teachers from Black Rock PS a group of principal class educators gathered to discuss instruction with a focus on differentiated Instruction. We also heard about a potential problem ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2012
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One of last week's walk-through foci was on classroom learning communities. These are some of the images I captured on the walk-through.
At the start of each school year we as a staff and teachers in all classrooms expect to build learning communities. We devote time each February for this and 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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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 ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
I have just finished sending in my last assignment for this semester [Masters Course] and with some relief I am now able to get some of my life back and amongest other things write a bit more on my blog. My assignment was the first stage of my research project ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
I was recently directed to this open culture site which has free videos and other media that are accessible to all. They have listed the top 10 sites that have free media material for education. I looked at the Australian Screen Archive [I looked at a short clip about the file ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
This is a useful clip for those teachers or administrators wanting to start or continue a conversation about learning and what it might look like in classrooms and why - has a technical focus but still worth a look.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Thanks to Chris Betcher, a teacher I found this clip on twitter which is one of the more popular social networking tools out now. PURPOSE. PURPOSE. PURPOSE is everything. Without a purpose lets not rush into this - I'm still at blogs presenting purposeful reflection and the sharing of resources ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Tonight I stumbled upon Bill Gaskins blog which lists some tremendous sites for teachers who have interactive whiteboards. I really like the edheadsites as well as the national geographic sites - they are well worth a visit - thanks Bill
Sites
Virtual Knee Surgery: http://edheads.org/activities/knee/index.htm
Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery http://edheads.org/activities/hip/index.htm
Crash Scene Investigation: http://edheads.org/activities/crash_scene/
Weather: ...
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