Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
This is another post on learning spaces we have constructed. These images are of a new building that houses years 5 and 6 students.
The first image is of a large central spaces that facilitates learning in different size groups. There are digital whiteboards located at either end of the room ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Readers of my blog will know that we have had Kath Murdoch working with our teachers at Elsternwick Primary over the past 4 years. Kath initially worked with the whole staff to develop some shared understandings about inquiry learning and then shifted to supporting teams. Her team work phase focused on effective ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
A few members of staff found the link to Kevin Donnelly's article in the Australian recently which is, as they say offering a different opinion to the one I'm putting forward and suggested I read it.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24005037-25192,00.html
A few quick comments on his article, if I may
1. His comment about history saying the ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
This week at our weekly leadership meeting we discussed a research article about an American school who number crunched student achievement over a 3 year period. This article really set us up for the weekly staff meeting where we were investigating the question: If research suggests the greatest variance in student outcomes ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
I heard Andy Hargreaves speak at the ACEL conference in Sydney last year and was impressed with his candor about governments setting what seemed to be easy targets for schools. I thought his point was that governments in Australia were overly obsessive with literacy targets given that we were ranked 5 ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
lorne swing bridge, originally uploaded by markwalker.teacher.
Over the holidays I managed to get away for a few days and enjoy a few walks down at Lorne. Most of the holiday period was spent on site attending to building issues and so these few days were special.
Each morning we would walk ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
old library being removed, originally uploaded by markwalker.teacher.
Just before the school holidays the old library was shifted to another school. Our new library which is part of the major construction project should be open in the third week of term 3.
If you are interested in seeing photos of the building ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
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I was at school with the whiteboard electrician, Steve yesterday as we resolved wiring problems in the new building. We are installing 4 new interactive whiteboards in the new learning spaces as well as motorized screens and data projectors in the Visual Arts area and Library. I now know that ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
As we near the occupancy of the first new learning spaces constructed at Elsternwick Primary since 1920, and before I am completely swept away with the detail surrounding the final stages of this building, the whole construction process begs me to reflect on the initial learning pedagogy behind the design ...
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