Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
We have discovered this wonderful resources from the Canadian Curriculum Services which has great web casts with similar challenges to our schools: http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/april18.shtml
We have been revising our understandings about reading instruction and what certain teaching strategies look and sound like. Up to this point point we had been revising guided ...
Posted in Reading, school, Teaching, Video Clips | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
It seems writing is now more in focus than reading.
Over the last 6 months I have heard and read a great deal about the power of writing and how the model needs to change in schools. I wrote about Douglas Reeves using the 90/90/90 schools research as a case for ...
Posted in Leadership, Reading, school, Teaching, Uncategorized, writing | 4 Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Well, I have submitted my second reflective piece of writing this week, on my holidays. It's been a while since I've had my writing "marked" and I was quite nervous I must say in accessing my assessment [what students at school must feel].
I liked the group feedback Phil, the professor ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Mitchell, my son has just returned from 13 days in the the Northern Territory and South Australia exploring the red centre of this vast continent. He has been to places I haven't and has a set of experiences that will last a life time. Thanks to the school, McKinnon SC for ...
Posted in Family, Holidays, school, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Thanks to Chris Betcher, a teacher I found this clip on twitter which is one of the more popular social networking tools out now. PURPOSE. PURPOSE. PURPOSE is everything. Without a purpose lets not rush into this - I'm still at blogs presenting purposeful reflection and the sharing of resources ...
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
I visited Matthew Needlemans blog and really like the way his is trying to get his students to anchor their reading comprehension skills through the creation of posters that students can connect to. Often charts displayed in rooms don't provide reminders to students about strategies they can use when learning ...
Posted in Reading, Teaching, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
