Archive for the ‘Video Clips’ Category
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Last night I was shown a clip of Australia's number 1 cyber bully, Tristan Barker. This story featured heavily in the New Zealand press where he is currently living with his father.
I suppose what brought this to home was that I coached this young person in a Saturday afternoon basketball ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
I've just finished reading the authorised biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. I bought the book while travelling to the States in June of this year where everyone seemed to be reading it and finally made the time while on holidays to finish this "warts and all" account of his ...
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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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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Last week as part of Education Week we held our second parent and teacher forum on cyber safety. The presenter for this session was Susan McLean.
We had 50 parents attend Susan's presentation and this combined with the first cyber safety session earlier in the term means about 20% of our ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Recently we ran a workshop on observing teacher practice in classrooms within a coaching relationship. To break the ice but make the point we used this clip from Summer Heights High which was an Australian TV show that "sent up" schools.
It successfully broke the ice and teachers talked about instruction and ...
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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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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Some times you just need a laugh and this appealled to me. Thanks to Greg Carroll for this one.
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
I was conducting a school tour recently for prospective parents where we started to discuss the social construction of knowledge. My tours do go to some 'random' places.
A prospective parent asked why we placed such importance on personal and interpersonal learning skills and I was responding that we construct knowledge in social ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Occasionally you stumble upon some research that just makes sense. Well this research about the effects of fixed and fluid mindsets on student motivation made sense to me.
Have you heard someone say they just no good at............ maths or whatever.... this suggests they may have a fixed mindset. Carol Dweck says ...
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
I used this clip on the first day this year with teachers when the question was raised about teachers letting go [stop talking to the whole class] after a challenging task was set [some scaffolding has already occurred].
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