Archive for May, 2010
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Cannot help but feel awed at the Boston Celtics charge towards the finals. As a fan of the Celtics my son, Mitchell and I have been following the games on the Sports Channel here in Melbourne. Written off by many at the start finals its just goes to show effort ...
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Just a short clip on the use of protocols when observing instruction. here Marzano talks about the use of his protocol and not to be confused with other techniques. It's a timely reminder as we here in Victoria embarked on the use of Instructional Rounds.
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
You watch these two short video clips where Alf Kohn argues that the more students seek high standards [performance] as measured by grades rather than learning through the task the less they learn. It's an interesting argument to put and I think he indicates that student narrow their focus.
I wonder ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
A month or so ago all principals in Victoria were given this book "Disrupting Classrooms" just prior to the release of a new innovation in schools called the ultranet.
We have all been reading this book in our own ways I think supported a little more directly through networks of schools ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
This week as part of Masters Leadership course we visited Collingwood College looking at the broad theme of sustainability.
Collingwood College was the first center for the now nation wide Stephanie Alexander's school kitchen gardens. These photos show the gardens and the produce harvested and cooked by students in the kitchen.
In ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Over the past few month prompted by the news that our assistant principal was successfully appointed as principal to another school I have been working on a revised workforce plan. This plan is quite complex and covers role allocation, possible leadership models with financial models that identify risk areas and ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
I was watching question time in Federal Parliament the other night having arrived home from a late school council meeting. I know you must be thinking - what question time? There was a question put to one of the ministers about education and the minister were extolling the virtue ...
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Another fabulous TED talk this time on Mathematics, one of our school improvement targets. Meyer's a secondary school maths teacher shows how we can connect students to maths problems using technology in real life situations. To learn to ask the questions and understand the problem is the key. Check out ...
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
I have been reading the book Blind Side by Michael Lewis and thinking about the parallels here in life and education.
Now I do like watching American football on TV and confess besides the quarterback passing down field to receivers or a running back making a short run I'm a little ...
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
In this clip Marzano talks about the power of a common language to describe teaching. While he was talking about using his framework as a base to innovate from - I think no matter what framework the message is the same. We in Victoria have a 5E instructional framework.
However ...
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