I suffer from the problem of not enough time to keep up with my RSS feeds – today I opened up Google Reader to discover 600+ items to read.
Luckily I sort into folders and some I’m quite happy to mark as read and be done with them.
Others I skim through quite quickly.
But the gems [...]
One of the other teachers at school brought her students (5 year olds) to visit in our class. As there are only 6 students in her class at the moment we put one in each of the 6 class groups.
I had found some online maths activities for them to do together.
It was fascinating to [...]
Yesterday we used a blog to facilitate our SODA (start of day activity based on Tony Ryan’s Thinkers Keys). The students worked in their groups to come up with their ideas. Then they commented on the post to record their ideas.
All the groups worked well and came up with fantastic ideas. I have developed [...]
After reading some blog posts and wiki information about ‘inspired’ classrooms I decided that I wanted to try moving my computers away from the wall and into the middle of the classroom and base each group around one computer – instead of rotating students/groups around the classroom they could rotate their activity and have a [...]
Popping into school to do a quick job ended up being 4 hours – quite pleasantly spent pottering around tweaking a few things in the classroom and putting together our Autumn Leaves display.
We wrote Autumn cinquains and published them on leaves, which were then dyed, crumpled and cut out. We also did some leaf [...]
Today started off with lots of drama. I went to school early knowing I needed to finish up last night’s work in rearranging the classroom. Just as well as I discovered that the ethernet cable I laid (and duct taped) was faulty. No problems replacing it and firing up the computers. I flicked onto the [...]
I’ve been working on how my students do their work in the classroom and being inspired by other teachers blogging about their experiences.
I took some photos today of 4 of my groups working. (I have 4 students who go to another (new) class from 9:30-12:30 due to size of our classes.) The 5th group was [...]
First a huge thank you to all who answered my survey. 85 people responded from all over the world.
The demographic information I got from it goes like this:
Length of time on twitter:
15 — 2+ years
32 — 1-2 years
10 — 6-12 months
15 — less than 6 months
Occupation:
37 — Teachers – both Primary & Secondary
35 — [...]
Hey all – I’m running a workshop for my cluster in a couple of weeks and wanted to get some updated opinions. If you can, please answer my survey questions.
Thanks to all who contributed … I’ll post results in a series of posts rather than one big post!
We had a Teacher Only day on Friday with Murray Gadd facilitating. He’s been in and out all year working on literacy with us. I started up an Etherpad window and two of us (with occasional input from our principal) used it to take notes. At the end of the session I sent a PDF [...]
I am a:
I have a secret passion – well – maybe not so secret – teaching is not about feeding information into kids brains – it’s about creating a place where kids are inspired, enthused, excited about discovery and learning – so my goal as a teacher is to leave my kids wanting more and having the skills to find out more.
This year I’ve moved up a year level and am enjoying the more sophisticated conversations and explorations that we are having in the classroom. It’s exciting to see kids motivated because our classroom is using 21st Century tools for their everyday teaching and learning.
This blog is really for my reflective practise – about things that have worked (or not worked) in my classroom and to share these with others in my PLN.
I should also mention that I’m a Kiwi living in the North Island of New Zealand (just north of Wellington).
