Category: 2011 posts
Flipping professional development
This post contains a copy of the prezi I presented this week on Flipping Professional Development – New ways of teacher learning. I will attempt here to summarise what I spoke about. Who am I? I am a year 5 teacher who believes in collaborating and team teaching whenever I can. I think that primary […]
Out of the mouth of babes
The Australian school year is nearly over. After successfully conferencing with every student in my class, my reports are finished. Units of work are coming to a close and thoughts of future holidays are beginning to surface. In Year 5 though, we still have thinking and reflecting to complete. This week we posed the following […]
I Can Do That
This is my attempt to transcribe my presentation from TeachMeet North which was held at Ravenswood School on Wednesday November 16 2011. I Can Do That Or how I came out of my comfort zone and changed my life – And if I can so can you. I used to think that professional development for […]
Old ways and new ways of learning
My class were lucky enough to enjoy lessons from two new teachers this week. Firstly a school parent, who is a qualified art teacher, looking to get back into the work force; came in to give my class an two art lessons. We planned the lesson together using the Sidney Nolan’s series on Ned Kelly […]
To grade or not to grade?
My class are in the midst of finishing various class tasks, taking end of year diagnostic tests, finishing off projects and the odd test too. The usual end of year routine for many schools. However we no longer grade any work in year 5, instead my co-teacher and I write extensive comments, designed to assist […]
AIS Leaders Conference
Once again I find myself using this space to complement a presentation I am giving. I apologise if much of what I am writing appears familiar to my regular readers. Since however my presentation is on the merits of class and student bloggers, please bear with me. Perhaps you would like to add a comment […]
Planning and Sharing with Social Media
My team teaching buddy is sick. Poor Pru has not made it back to school this term and although she is on the mend she will not be accompanying our class to Bathurst next week. This annual one night excursion is for most of our students the highlight of our inquiry unit, ‘What was life […]
Learning with BTN
Behind The News is an Australian student current affairs program produced by the ABC. It can be watched on the television or directly from the BTN website. it has been a long tradition at my school for Year 5 students to watch BTN on a Friday afternoon. In the five years I have taught year […]
It’s All About Relationships
I spent two days last week at a conference, one day of which I blogged about here. While the conference itself was a great opportunity to update skills and learn new things, once again the best part of it was meeting fellow tweeters, catching up with old friends and building relationships with fellow educators. This […]
From little things big things grow – The edublogs awards
I have been so busy with my term ending as well as staff presentations and workshops to run that this year edublogs awards have virtually passed me by. Last night however I realised that nominations had ended without my noticing and that voting was upon us. A quick glance through the nominations and I realised […]