A short time ago I got asked by Greg Curran, mastermind behind Pushing the Edge Consulting, if I would mind being interviewed for a podcast. Initially I was a bit sceptical.Not because I didn’t believe in Greg, who does great things, but more because I wasn’t sure I had anything worthy to share in a…
Category: education
Are National Standards An Excuse?
How often have you heard an educator say ‘If only I didn’t have to teach the standards” (insert assessment or standardised tool of choice). Often, it is in the context of ruining creativity or killing off ‘fun’ in the classroom. I am going to be controversial – so here is your chance to stop reading….
Guest Post – To Korero Or Not?
Guest Post from Kerri Thompson, founder of #BFC630NZ twitter chat, and a passionate and innovative year 7/8 kiwi teacher. Kerri has been exploring cutting edge personalisation processes in her classroom, with fabulous results. Her blog is ‘Learningmyway‘.TO KORERO OR NOT? An emotional post after a comment directed at me by someone I don’t know via…
Educational Coaching 101- a Vlog Challenge #EdblogNZ
If you are a regular reader then you will know that I have been participating in the #EdBlogNZ blogging challenges. Some have been interesting, some have been problematic and this particular challenge – down right petrifying! The challenge:“Create a 1-2 minute video of an educational topic you are passionate about and post it on your blog…
Sources of Inspiration #EdBlogNZ
The last three weeks have been busy in the ‘blogosphere’ with the #EdBlogNZ challenges. One of this weeks tasks is to write about what have been my top three sources of inspiration over the last three weeks. It almost feels like a trick question. Top Three Sources of Inspiration 1. ULearn This was my first…
Accelerated Learning Tiers of Intervention Graphic #EdBlogNZ
EdBlogNZ Challenge Week 2 The Challenge: ‘Find an example of a resource you have made for your students, embed it in your blog and discuss how it has helped them with their learning. Reflect also on how you might further adapt/redesign the resource to take student learning to another level.’ The following resource is the…
Collaboration – An Innovation Challenge Accepted #EdBlogNZ
October is Connected Educator month, and this post is a celebration of connecting with others through a collaboration, on the theme of Innovation. Most importantly, it serves to meet the #edblognz challenge to collaborate with another blogger (or in our case, bloggers) on an important issue in education. We are a triad (to clarify,…
Educational Inspirations #EdBlogNZ
Todays post is my second for week one of the #EdBlogNZ challenge. You can read my first post here about why I blog and what I blog about. Challenge three for this week was to write a post about how something like a favourite movie, song, or piece of art relates to who we are as an educator….
It’s All About The Blog! #EdBlogNZ
I thrive on challenges and I love to blog. Combining the two – now that’s just going to have to be magic! It’s ironic really – since the 3pm bell heralded the end of what can only be described as a ‘mare’ of a term, I think I have subconsciously checked out of of the…
Building Capital to Build Capacity
I belong to a PPLG (principal’s’ professional leadership group) and we have been reading ‘The Principal – Three keys to Maximizing Impact” by Michael Fullan. At our meeting last week, we focused on chapter three, The First Key – Leading Learning. It is a fairly substantial chapter, and it covers a wide range of things…