The way I plan for my teaching has changed a lot over the past few years. This really was obvious today as my wife, Joanne, planned for her two days of teaching this week in the manner that I did not so long ago – writing out lesson plans by hand, cross referencing her resource [...]
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
One of the biggest challenges in implementing this concept of “life long learners” is not just changing the mindset of the teachers in our classrooms but the students as well. Many of them have well established expectations of how school should play out and for many of them, being a “good kid” and following instructions [...]
I finally splashed out the other weekend and bought an iPod Touch, even going so far as to buy the 32 GB version. I had some thank you money from my involvement in PLP over the summer, our prime minister is encouraging Australians to spend their way out of the recession and I was curious [...]
I had the chance to attend a MasterClass for leaders presented by Teaching Australia, a group who have produced documents detailing professional standards for teachers and leadership. The session was led by Professor Mike Gaffney, and the MasterClass was a sort of face to face entree for a book “Leading Schools In The Digital Age“, [...]
This term’s Inquiry unit has focussed on the concept of leadership. This was designed by the three teachers involved (myself included) to cover the SACSA Health standards of 3.5 and 4.5 3.5 Assumes different roles when working as part of a cooperative group or team to achieve a shared goal and understands the effects on [...]
We have 10,000 netbooks being rolled out in a trial in Victorian state schools. See here for Bill Kerr’s analysis. We have 200,000 laptops of similar ilk being rolled out by the NSW DET. A spirited debate on this news is currently happening on the Oz-Teachers list (start here) – but at times sniping about [...]
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