Archive for the ‘school’ Category
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Yesterday we held parent teacher interviews in the afternoon and while I was walking around on yard duty I spotted these boys sitting under some playground equipment connected to our wireless network via their i phones or newly leased laptops from school.
What intrigued me was that it was 20 minutes after ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
The French President is the latest in a growing line to suggest a ban on homework. In a recent BBC article he was cited as saying homework is not fair as it advantages the wealthy parents who have time to support their students.
Before I make a comment I think some ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFRxw9czi4&feature=plcp
To be called a teacher was once associated with being held in high regard. Like lots of professions this has slipped over recent years. One can speculate reasons as to why or how this has happened. This clip I think expresses the thoughts of thousands of teachers and my thanks ...
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Sunday, September 16th, 2012
Last week I facilitated an Instructional Round at a neighbouring school and tried to embrace some of the principles of Data Wise into the evidentiary analysis of the observations. The initiative was well received so I thought I would share it.
There were 3 groups of principals who observed students in ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Last month David Rease Jnr from Harvard visited Elsternwick to view our progress in implementing the Data Wise: Inquiry Approach to Improving Instruction in schools. We were quite chuffed at David's visit and recorded this clip to capture some of his initial observations and reflections.
As you will hear he commented on ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Over recent weeks I have pondering concerns raised by teachers and a few parents on the use of data to report to parents (summative assessment).
Last week three of my staff attended a briefing on the new National Curriculum due to be implemented in 2013. Most of the questions raised ...
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
I thought I might show a bit of this clip at the start of my meeting this week with the Year 5/6 students as they prepare for the annual Hoop Time Basketball competition. Each year we enter around 15 teams across the 3 divisions (all-star, future stars and rookies). In ...
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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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Sunday, June 10th, 2012
Recently I heard Major General Jim Molan, a retired Army officer who served in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars talk about leadership. He opened with the observation that the army and schools have something in common - they both had social licences to operate and they are both often ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Last week I was working with Dr George Otero on trying to navigate through the various theories of action that underpin our work at Elsternwick. What are the connections between relational learning framework, Data Wise inquiry cycles, instructional rounds observations on task predicting performance to name a few and Michael Fullan's work ...
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