Archive for August, 2010
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
It's easy sometimes to get lulled into thinking about oneself and the sometimes small things that occupy our attention or stress. As I prepare for school tomorrow this clip serves as powerful reminder to all us, particularly those in Western countries like Australia, how fortunate we are to be born ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Yong Zhao a University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education at Michigan State University and international consultant to many governments talks here about the dangers of the narrow use of national test scores to define what students need.
I heard him speak recently at our Statewide forum on the use ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
High expectations for all - now that's a trick. Marzano talks about how we stay with students [who get it quickly - brighter? - well in this discipline at least] longer with more demanding questions. One of the tricks is to know your students and have possible prompts [scaffolding questions] ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Most of us at some point have attended a party, work function or been somewhere where you look at a person and say I know you from somewhere. Well that happened to me last week whilst attending a special session on Instructional Rounds with Professor Richard Elmore.
The session, which was absolutely brilliant, had ...
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