Archive for the ‘curriculum’ Category
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Last month we held our 3rd curriculum day on one of our strategic improvement strategies - the implementation of a relational learning framework in teaching and learning and to engage with the parent and wider community (school are entitled to hold 4 non pupil free days each year).
The day was facilitated by ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
The title of this post comes from a book titled "Schools and Communities: working together to transform children live's" by West-Burnham, Farrar and Otero.
Pictured above is George Otero, a co author of the book and Co-President of the Relational Learning Centre in Santa Fe New Mexico USA. George has started to do some work ...
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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, February 9th, 2010
At the start of the school year most of the local primary schools got together to hear Di Siemon from RMIT speak about the big ideas in mathematics education. Di really challenged some of our teacher ideas and spoke about the big ideas in mathematics that all students need to learn. Some of ...
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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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