check out the video 1. Class-Yes 2. Teach-OK 3. Scoreboard 4. Hands-Eyes (haven’t done this yet) 5. Micro-lecture – by using teach-ok you’re actually making yourself do micro-lectures – I’m a talker and so for me this is absolutely brilliant! 6. Comprehension check

Today I decided to introduce the rules. Initially I intended to teach 2 rules and then the rest next week but the chn protested and begged me to teach them the rest of the rules. There is an overarching rule “Respect Everyone” that fits right in with our class treaty that we wrote at the [...]

One of my twitter friends linked me to some youtube videos about Power Teaching and Learning. I’ve added this to the teaching reading comprehension I blogged about earlier this week and come up with some super dynamic stuff happening. I introduced some of the power teaching techniques today in class and for the first time [...]

actually i don’t know how new this particular feature is – BUT – for me it’s great ‘cos i often get long emails and want to only quote a small part of it … gmail labs now has a feature where you highlight what you want to quote and then hit ‘r’ key … excellent!!

One of my fellow teachers has been to a couple of workshops with Alison Davis and spent some time yesterday afternoon sharing some gems with us. http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/nz/products/learningmediadirect/TRCworkshops2008 http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/nz/products/learningmediadirect/professionalresources/ReadingComp and a couple of other links http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/literacy_symposium_2007.html http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/framework.html Today i had the best ever guided reading lesson – i took it so much further than i’ve done [...]