Archive for the ‘differentiation’ Category
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
My headline is in lots of ways misleading for there is no one right way to learn to spell efficiently in English.
In the 60's and 70's we made students learn to spell lists of words through repetition or drill with lots of rules thrown in and then in the Donald ...
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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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Friday, January 27th, 2012
As I set up our Network Instructional Rounds dates for 2012 I was interested to read and reflect upon another group of principal evaluations of their experiences last year.
Overwhelmingly the consistent comment of principals as observers in both groups are that they now are interested in asking students about lesson learning ...
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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, November 6th, 2011
I've been pondering some recent parent feedback about our senior students lack of engagement with some teachers and the material they are expected to learn. I began my reflections about the students coming from the digital generation and expecting to be entertained by teachers otherwise they are bored or non ...
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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, March 2nd, 2011
This post is a work in progress. I'm putting it up on my blog before this weeks instructional rounds for principals to view so that we can tune in to the problem of practice.
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