Archive for the ‘Conference’ Category
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Last week I was privileged to spend 3 days interacting with James Nottingham and others around the topic of life long learning. He made to me some valuable points worth exploring a little further.
"tests show only what a child has learnt to that point and nothing else" Binet 1857 - 1911
James ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Ever been to a professional learning workshop or presentation and felt discomfort, challenged, empowered and an overwhelming sense relief all at the same time? Well I have several times (lucky me some might say) and this session led by Everett Kline on assessment at the2011 ASCD summer conference in ...
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
This year in our Instructional Rounds group within the local network of schools we purchased Carol Tomlinson's book "Leading and Managing A Differentiated Classroom" to use as a base text for understanding our observation of instruction in classrooms.
Last year I was privileged to attend the ASCD Summer Conference in Boston ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Earlier this year Penny, one of my assistant Principal's, and I participated in the ASCD summer conference in Boston. One workshop we attended was by Pete Hall the Principal of Sheridan Elementary School in Spokane.
Pete spoke about the need to monitor classroom instruction to improve performance. He used a walk-through as tool to monitor instruction and ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
David Perkins from Harvard University was another keynote speaker at the Singapore conference.
He put the proposition that a lot of what goes on in schools is educating for the known - we teach lots of information - spelling rules or maths equations or history often decided by state wide curriculum ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
I co-presented at the international conference in Singapore on instructional leadership and the use of data and other strategies to improve student learning. After the session, which was cut short, there were a number of questions asked by delegates on the presentation and I said I would share the paper and ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Certainly one of the more challenging speakers at the recent World Convention of Principals was Kishore Mahbubani. For those not familiar with Kishore or his work, and I was one of them, he is currently a Professor in Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and has published 3 significant books as ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
I have just returned from the 9th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals in Singapore. It was truly an international convention with1,400 delegates from over 40 countries. It was also an opportunity to meet up with old friends and colleagues like Sita, who I first met whilst studying ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
This phrase "necessary but not sufficient" has been ringing in my ears of recent weeks when thinking about those students who are achieving below minimim standards.
I first heard Paul Brock use the phase and subsequently I have used it when speaking to teachers about our NAPLAN data. I was suggesting to ...
Posted in 2008 ACEL Conference, Leadership, school, Teaching | 4 Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2008
I was fortunate to meet John Hattie recently who is one academic I often quote in my work. John Hattie is from New Zealand and has been researching amongst other things the effects of various strategies or innovations on student learning.
As I start to plan the 2009 school year I hear ...
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