I made it. I confess on several occasions I thought it would be touch and go, especially on the night of my board meeting when I didn’t get home until the middle of the night, and the last few posts have been like pulling teeth without tools or painkiller. Not because I am unable to…
Day 27: Why Don’t We Just Ask #28daysofwriting
Excuse the poor lighting 🙁 Several days ago I had an e-learning meeting with other leaders in at the Cognition headquarters. Painted on their wall was the following quote by Marie Clay. For the uninitiated, Marie Clay was the mother of Reading Recovery, a highly acclaimed international literacy intervention for 6 year olds. Seeing…
Day 26: The future of learning #28daysofwriting
Sugata Mitra – Building a School in the CloudIn this video Sugata talks about what he thinks the future of learning is, and he shares his experiment in New Delhi with the computer in the wall. What he finds is fascinating. To begin with he talks about where the current system comes from, outlining how…
Day 25: I Confess #28daysofwriting
Today I am struggling to fit in the #28daysofwriting challenge. It is Thursday and I am tired. Not just a little bit tired but a huge amount of tired. It is coming up to the end of week four of term one, and I have already lost count of how many 12 plus hour days…
Day 24: Student Focus Groups #28daysofwriting
In yesterdays post “Student Voice – From Back in the Day“, I promised I would post about student focus groups today and how they are a vehicle to not only check on a students engagement, but also a barometer of how things are going in classrooms in terms of a students learning, and of teaching…
Day 23: Student Voice – From Back in the Day #28daysofwriting
How do you collect student voice? I am fascinated by student voice and student agency, I always have been. Back in the ‘day’, my classroom was all about co constructing learning and behaviour, with the students. Very little happened without student input, design and consensus. At the time it didn’t have the modern label of…
Day 22: The Buzz of Learning #28daysofwriting
Something strange on the playground….I wonder… At our place, we are working on strengthening our collaborative opportunities and providing our students with learning experiences that ignite their sense of wonder, curiosity and inquiry. So today, to kick off our whole school inquiry, something strange happened. Watching the Video of the ‘incident’ in the hall…
Day 21: Isn’t Teaching a Full Time Job? #28daysofwriting
Sometimes I read things that make me mad. Not a little cross or partial fuming, but eye narrowing, brow furrowing and blood boiling mad! What would make me mad you ask (no, it is NOT a trick question those of you who know me well)?…
Day 20: Finding Inspiration #28daysofwriting
A friend posted this on her FB wall and I had to ‘borrow’. It is ironic really, because I had just been sitting here, on a Saturday night, pondering tonights #28daysofwriting and my inspiration cup was sitting low. Don’t get me wrong, ideas and random snippets of prose flow in and out of my mind…
Day 19: Reinvigorating a Mojo Meltdown #28daysofwriting
Ever had a mojo meltdown? By mojo meltdown I refer to those times in your career when you feel like you have lost your passion, that the bounce in your step is more of a dull thudding drag, and the enthusiasm for jumping out of bed each morning has become something akin to a sloth…