Archive for December, 2007
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Ever thought around new year that you just want to get a little better this year and start the new year at school a little more in control of the learning in the classroom? Well here's a site I just discovered that has lots of lots of videos that might just help. The ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
The school year has ended, the year 6's have graduated with most shedding a tear at leaving their friends, the reports have been distributed, next years classes and teachers published and the teachers are heading off to celebrate another successful year.
As I reflect upon the last few days of the school ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
The Federal Government has just released a plan to weigh children before they start school to try and crack down on obesity. The Health Minister, Nicola Roxon was reported to have said that the condition had become a national responsibility as one in four Australian children are already overweight or ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
One of the challenges leaders in school face is to explain, even market to parents why changes occur. I was faced with such a challenge recently as I published the 2008 school structures in the school newsletter. For four years we had implemented multi aged groupings for both educational and financial ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Thanks to Don Ledingham blog I have been altered to the 2007 PISA results being published which are worth a look.
In summary the results remained flat across most OECD countries. Australia showed some improvement in Science with a 7th ranking when compared to other countries. However youth generally were pessimistic about being ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I was walking laps around one of my local parks this morning at 6.30 am listening to a podcast of Peter Senge talking about the relationship between business and school and it struck me how the tools of leadership have changed. No longer is the ipod the sole domain of our ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I'm currently rereading a book by Roland Barth titiled "Learning by Heart" which I think makes a number of relevant comments for me about school reform from a very practical perspective. I also think his quotes are great: e.g.
"Experience is not so much what happens to us as what we make ...
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