Archive for November, 2010
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Last week our school leadership team spent the day with Professor John Hattie from Auckland University and his team from the the Visible learning Lab. John has published his research in a book title Visible Learning and presents at lots of conferences and to various governments on what works to ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I read this quote at the back ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Professor Donald Graves of New Hampshire University recently died of pneumonia at the age of 80. In the early 1980's his research on student writing which became known as "process writing" had a profound influence on Australian educators including me.
His book proved an inspiration to me. I was frustrated at that time ...
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
This is the third recent post on the direction of education in schools.
In the first post I used the work of Sir Ken Robinson who gave us an outline of the history of public education and some of the challenges we now face. I also used the work of Chris Betcher, a ...
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