Classroom 2.0
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Over the weekend I discovered this online collaborative learning community dedicated to supporting educators use technology with learners. It's worth a look.
Archive for June, 2008
Over the weekend I discovered this online collaborative learning community dedicated to supporting educators use technology with learners. It's worth a look.
Dynamic Curriculum Mapping
Friday, June 27th, 2008Last week Michael Ymer worked with 3 of our teaching teams to plan the Math Curriculum for the next semester. Michael is one of our key educators we contract to build and support teacher learning. He coaches individual teachers in classrooms to build their instructional skills as well with teams in ...
Scottish News
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008This week we have been fortunate to host Doug from Scotland. Readers of my blog will recognise Doug as Don Ledingham's son. Apart from learning about Don as a dad, former head teacher, current acting director of education in East Lothiam and the builder of the "bus shelter" its been a wonderful ...
Spencer at Elsternwick Primary
Friday, June 13th, 2008I first met Spencer in Toronto last year whilst visiting some schools. His mother Kathy is a superintendent of a family of schools in Toronto and is visiting in July of this year. Spencer, over a beer at a jazz club, expressed an interest in completing his teaching degree out in Australia. ...
“Great players are not just great athletes, they also have great fundamentals,”
Friday, June 13th, 2008I was sent an article about a famous european basketball coach Ettora Messina which I think has some messages for all young sports people who are in our schools. I don't know about what other teachers who are coaches are finding but I have lots of youth who watch CNN ...
Test scores not the total answer
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Thanks to Warrick Wynne I found this, what I call a protest clip on testing that makes an even stronger point on the need for deeper learning, feedback and challenge loops, the value of arts and the need to challenge any report or system that has test scores as the ...
High Stakes Testing
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008I was prompted to do some research around what some call high stakes testing after a discussion at a leadership meeting recently where we discussed in my opinion the low value of testing unless the student got feedback on what to improve next and the teacher on the next learning challenge ...
A Harvard Poem
Sunday, June 8th, 2008I was clearing out my inbox over the weekend and found this poem by Lynette which brought many fond memories of Harvard in 2007 and thought I would share it. The Principals' Institute - July, 2007 It all began on July 12, 2007 when we arrived and were greeted by Mary Grassa ...
Parents Be There!
Saturday, June 7th, 2008I was reminded this week of the importance of being there in the momentwith your children when I was at my daughters netball game and a chap well dressed in a business suit sat near me and proceeded to scribble over a document. Here I was watching every move on ...
Teachers ahaa moments
Saturday, June 7th, 2008I was visiting Don Ledingham's site this week where he had a short clip of a film that moved him as a youth to laugh and cry and perhaps inspired part of him to become a teacher. It got me to reflect on my youth and were there any films that had a ...
