Archive for the ‘reflections’ Category
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
We are at the end of our time at Harvard having had our presentation both acknowledged by the facility and celebrated by our American colleagues.It felt gooood!
Our thinking was then sharpened over the remainder of the course to focus on the next level of work. Our goal to build teacher ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
This is just a small post on what I love and find frustrtaing using the ipad as a work tool overseas. Yesterday we visited a school in Cambridge (John Tobin) and I took some photos. The ipad was great (compact, user friendly).
I went back to the hotel and began ...
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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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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Over the past 3 months I have been honoured to observe instruction by teachers in classrooms across a number of schools. One of the indicators of effective instruction is that each lesson has a clear learning intention stated up front to the students in the class. In most classrooms I visited the ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
This recently discovered photos of Aussies in the trenches in World War 1 brings another special memory to ANZAC Day celebrations this year in Melbourne.
I've just finished watching the ANZAC Day parade here in Melbourne and how the next generations of Australians in their thousands come to pay their respects ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
I stumbled on this clip from Scott Mcleaod's blog to a movie that touches on an extreme, that if normalised in schools would spell disaster for a generation of students. The pressure to perform on tests - to get high grades - is real - its not the same as ...
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Sunday, December 26th, 2010
Now that the school year has closed for 2010 and we start to unwind and prepare for the festive and summer holiday period with family and friends its an opportune time to sit back and reflect on the last month or so of frenetic activity.
I happened upon a few photos on ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
A few of Hattie's comments on feedback that he made at a recent seminar struck a discord with me:
Feedback is much more about what students receive than teachers give.
When feedback is given to the whole class its received by no-one as they believe its not about them.
Students who read feedback ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
It's easy sometimes to get lulled into thinking about oneself and the sometimes small things that occupy our attention or stress. As I prepare for school tomorrow this clip serves as powerful reminder to all us, particularly those in Western countries like Australia, how fortunate we are to be born ...
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