Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Over the Easter break I was fortunate enough to spend a few days on the Delitate River. While I was cooking a bbq at night it was great to look up and see the bright stars in the sky. It was a great time to just sit and read or walk along ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Yesterday at the invitation of a colleague I joined him at Monash University as he started a Masters in Education course. As I walked from the car park I was struck by the both the number of students [I’m told there are 70,000 students and over 500 staff at Monash] ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
We have just completed a whole pupil free day looking at our instructional practice on student writing. Anne Hammond, our resident literacy coach had us look at persuasive text for most of the morning: where you would find it, how it comes in different text forms [e.g. editorials, songs, advertising, ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
This week after our staff meeting I have been reflecting about the dialogue on what value we as teachers bring to the deeper learning our students need in the 21st century. We watched a pod cast of Richard Elmore saying that in fact through the dominance of our literal recall ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
At this week's leadership meeting I introduced John Hattie's article on building teacher quality. We began talking as the instructional leaders of the school of our individual journeys to making a greater difference in student learning. Hattie explores this learning journey from novice to expert. The conversation turned to some ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I am working on one of the DEECD principal focus groups for building an instructional model for teachers in Victoria. During the first workshop we listened to this video clip from Richard Elmore talking about some of the challenges. Richard makes a point that many students loose the knowledge and ...
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