Archive for the ‘Teaching’ Category
Monday, June 10th, 2013
Recently I gave a presentation for the Brisbane Catholic Education Office titled "Feedback and Instruction". I was trying to make several points:
that teacher feedback is best received in a school culture that openly advocates feedback for all, including school leaders
that observation must be non judgemental (this can be hard for ...
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Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Recently I was listening to a teacher at my school, Aylie Berger, present some work on learning in Mathematics. A number of items were really interesting but for me the research around the "primary recency effect and cognitive closure" really struck a chord. The work comes from David Sousa's work ...
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Sunday, May 26th, 2013
.... we deeper questions and connections.
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Sunday, May 26th, 2013
Thanks to Greg Carroll from New Zealand for the link. Worth considering>
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Friday, May 24th, 2013
This week we had our first Skype conference call with Amy an English teacher at our sister school in China. It was a real buzz to talk in real-time with someone so far away from the comfort of my office. I was able to project her call on my whiteboard ...
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDRj5TgSh8
This little clip may be useful to show late primary early secondary students as the pose "meaty" questions to research. The clip uses a thick and thin classification. Have a look and tell me what you think.
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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, April 14th, 2013
Sometimes you get a surprise and this was true for me recently when I visited a display of young students passion projects. I think I see a little of our Australian Cricket Captain, Michael Clarke's style at the stumps in this display. It's great to see the student's engagement in ...
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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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Friday, October 5th, 2012
Thanks to Greg Whitby for writing about Andy Hargreaves and Michel Fullan's latest work on Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School,
I particularly liked Hargreaves suggestion that it takes around eight years or 10,000 hours to develop expertise in the profession of teaching through practice and concerted effort. I ...
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