Category: March 2011
Sydney Teach-Meet
Whenever I am lucky enough to leave my classroom for a day and attend a professional development session or conference I always come back wishing I had more time to connect with the other teachers there. I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately and my personal conclusion is that there is a […]
Sometimes it is the simplest things
I work in a small school, one of many small schools dotted around Australia. Accordingly my professional connections are limited to a small cohort of teachers at my school and my PLN within the wider community. Now since I am active in a number of online networks, most notable twitter, my PLN or Personal Learning […]
Time to create
The core values of our year 5 classes this year are Create, Cooperate, Collaborate and Care. These words help myself and my co-teacher @pruthomas to form and develop the way we want the students in our year group to think and behave. We talk about them together and we write about them on our class […]
U-stream in my classroon
Year 5 have spent the past four weeks in small groups of four students researching a country, so as to prepare a presentation to give to their peers. As a cohort they chose thirteen different countries. They followed expicit criteria and learning intentions to design a one slide SMARTboard file which contained the following. A […]