Even though I’m in my eighth year here at my current school, it isn’t the same place that I wandered into. Back in 2003 in my first taste of leadership, I inherited a school with a computing room with twenty PCs and one lone PC at the back of each classroom. In my role as [...]
Monthly Archive for May, 2010
The upcoming National Curriculum is part of a push for the improved teaching of Science and Mathematics. There has been Federal money flowing to the states to provide teacher training to support this, and in South Australia this has meant the adoption of the Primary Connections program: ‘PrimaryConnections: Linking science with literacy’ is an innovative [...]
I watched this video with interest today: Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) from Erik Qualman on Vimeo. I noted that Facebook now has a population that would place it third in the world were it a country. But there seems to a growing groundswell of discontent with savvy web users looking to delete their accounts [...]
On Friday during our Primary Connections workshop, we were shown an image similar to this: During the following response exercise, our facilitator informed my group that the yellow footed wallaby had been part of a surrogate program to improve numbers. Upon reflection, I can’t be sure that I heard her correctly but what I thought [...]
This was a standoff that was guaranteed to have no winners. Thank goodness a solution was found today, one that was engineered so that both parties had minimum egg on their respective faces. I’m a union member but in this case I wasn’t comfortable with the stance of refusing to administer the NAPLAN tests. I [...]
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