Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Thanks to a new site I discovered by Andrew Fraser I was able to get this clip from a school in Denmark who are trying to change their pedagogy using more flexible spaces - really like his comment that the classroom boxes are a relic of an old society seen ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Last week I was helping a colleague create a blog for his prep class. He had made a film or vodcast of the writing process with his young students and wanted to show this to their parents. He was thinking about burning multiple copies of the film however sharing this ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Thanks to Greg Whitby I found this clip of Viviane Robinson's work on instructional leadership in schools which in my opinion is well worth a look by leadership teams.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
This phrase "necessary but not sufficient" has been ringing in my ears of recent weeks when thinking about those students who are achieving below minimim standards.
I first heard Paul Brock use the phase and subsequently I have used it when speaking to teachers about our NAPLAN data. I was suggesting to ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
At a recent leadership meeting we discussed several articles on the value of data conversations. One of the articles posed a question around gathering data on the different levels of implementation of curriculum in individual classrooms and the need to assess gaps in implementation and teacher knowledge so that resources [ I ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
I was fortunate to meet John Hattie recently who is one academic I often quote in my work. John Hattie is from New Zealand and has been researching amongst other things the effects of various strategies or innovations on student learning.
As I start to plan the 2009 school year I hear ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
I recalled a conversation I heard between Jerry Starratt and Hedley Beare recently on how metaphors can portray or even drive our thinking about curriculum when I read an article [featured in the daily newspapers in most capital cities] about the new National Curriculum. The articles were calling for a back to basics in writing by ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
At the recent ACEL conference in Melbourne I heard a group of young leaders from a school in Greenford High School in West London speak about their contributions to school improvement which included students being trained to give constructive feedback to volunteer secondary teachers on lessons they teach. They attend key faculty meetings ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Last week I was wandering around Chadstone Shopping Centre looking for basketball boots for my son's birthday and I came across this book on 50 famous speeches that changed the world.
The book is now on my Christmas wish list however it has heightened my interest in famous speeches and their ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I was fortunate to hear Douglas Reeves for the second time at the recent ACEL conference in Melbourne. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Center for Performance Assessment, an organization dedicated to improving student achievement and educational equity.
In his address and subsequent workshop he made many points ...
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