Archive for February, 2010
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I don't think many teachers would disagree with the idea that its a good thing to use student assessment data to try and determine what students need to learn next, at least in Victorian schools - or would they?
Often teachers disagree on what student assessment data they find useful for one ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
At the start of the school year I'm teaching a series of workshops on cyber safety for students from Years 3 - 6 . These workshops coincide with the distribution the annual student Internet Agreement that parents and students sign.
Part of the agreement that parents and students sign is that they ...
Posted in cyberbullying, Family, Leadership, school, Teaching | 4 Comments »
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
This year we celebrated Chinese New Year.
Thanks to our new Mandarin teacher students this year had a week long celebration of Chinese New Year. Students learned Chinese cultural dances, made lanterns and the week ending with the traditional dragon dance.
I think its important as students learn a language to understand ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
According to the Age Newspaper directives to teach for the Naplan tests has started in Victoria just 8 days after results get published. #
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Last week I sent an email to the middle and senior team leaders offering to take the students from years 3-6 for an online safety session. This was partly a response to several incidents that occurred last year with students. The fact that most of these incidents started offsite was I ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
At the start of the school year most of the local primary schools got together to hear Di Siemon from RMIT speak about the big ideas in mathematics education. Di really challenged some of our teacher ideas and spoke about the big ideas in mathematics that all students need to learn. Some of ...
Posted in curriculum, Instruction, Mathematics, Teaching | 5 Comments »
Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Thanks to Julie O'Connell I came across this cheap use of open software that has changed the life of at least one person.
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Well, as reported in the Age Newspaper, it didn't take long for some directive to teachers to teach to the Naplan test. We all know you get some short term gain for 1 year and as the article points out what do we drop from the curriculum.
Is this a sign ...
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