Mark's Learning Log- Time for Surgery! December 1, 2025As I said in the first post Yikes I have prostate cancer it was now time after a biopsy to decide on which treatment or surgery was I going to have. From the images above it is probably clear that … Continue reading →mwalker
- Yikes, I’ve got Prostate Cancer November 24, 2025I’ve been encouraged to write this post by my urology physiotherapist – yes there is such a thing – to share my journey and encourage discussion amongst men. Well, the short history was that some 6 years ago during my … Continue reading →mwalker
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Web 2.0 tools and communication expectations?
Thanks to Greg Carroll from New Zealand for the link. I’m talking more and more in the staff room and off the cuff comments about the social medium of web 2.0 at staff meetings these days. There seems some tensions … Continue reading
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Get Smart – Open the Classroom Doors!
One of the central themes of the Big Day Out this year was to “get smart and open the classrooms doors” so that instruction, which can often seen as private teacher business, can be seen and improved. Each year Darrell Fraser, … Continue reading
Teaching and learning coaches in schools
At this weeks district Principal’s meeting we heard a report from one of DEECD’s appointed teacher coaches working in our local public schools. She spoke about frustrations over the system’s need for accountability data verses the need to just do it … Continue reading
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Fishbowling protocols that look at student work
This week we took the second step in learning to use protocols to look at student work. At the staff meeting the leadership team modelled the process using a fishbowl technique. Teacher feedback from last weeks introduction to protocols indicated more learning experiences … Continue reading
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Why use protocols when looking at student work?
We posed this question at a team leadership meeting last year when we discussed the quest to personalise learning more for our students? Perhaps one answer came after we introduced the idea to staff last week – it’s a bit like … Continue reading
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