I’m not really sure who they are but I suspect they are sort of right.
I guess it depends on what we do with the change or even how we approach it but if we do it right it’s great.
The change for me is moving into a new classroom (ex-library) and up a level – [...]
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There’s a lot of talk happening about National Standards – probably more people are talking about them than about anything else introduced over the last few years. We’ve been working with Murray Gadd and he likened the National Standards to signposts and tied them in with Literacy Learning Progressions and the new National Curriculum.
Here’s a [...]
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It’s not the technology in our classrooms it’s the passion and vision we have. This via Justine (Rt:@NZChrissy RT:@Shareski Via @ujdmc)
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I blogged during the holidays about taking a new direction in my classroom teaching/management and thought it was about time to reflect on how it is going so far.
Term 2 I want to explore some possibilities. So these are my ideas so far:
* Desks are grouped in 5 table groups of [...]
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Since I’m home sick I’m catching up on blog reading.
This post from Wes made me stop and think about how many worksheets my students get in a week – and on reflection there are some weeks they get NONE!
The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning
At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker [...]
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Here is a refreshing video about blurring the curriculum lines in schools.
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Found on another website – a link to this:
You pull the spin lever and it spins all the different wheels to give you a fun writing idea – noise effects and all. I’m going to try this week for some creative writing.
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