Daily Archive for May 31st, 2006

Blog On

Published on May 31, 2006 in Blogging and Personal Reflections. 11 Comments

One of the best ways to annoy me is to come up to me in mid-conversation with someone about the benefits of blogging and drop this line,” Blogging. You’ve obviously got a lot of spare time.” It annoys me on a number of levels. Firstly, because it dismisses blogging as frivolous and as a spare [...]

Cluster Learning Team Meeting – Student Initiated Curriculum Plans

Published on May 31, 2006 in Middle Schooling. Closed

Tonight after school, we held our termly Middle School Kooyonga Cluster meeting. The focus was on Student Initiated Curriculum and we had some guest speakers – practicing teachers who were prepared to share their experiences and individual approaches. First up, we heard from Richard Maynard, who talked about his school’s approach titled “Personalised or Individualised [...]