Tag: collaboration
Making Memories again.
What do you remember about your primary school days? We asked this question of our parents this week using our class blog and the answers were not surprising, not many of them remember tests or exams in their primary days. Yet for Australian students these days this week has been NAPLAN week. All Australian teachers […]
Classroom Spaces
If you had come into my year 5 classroom last term, for the most part you would have seen clusters of desks usually arranged in groups of four or six. So for my class of 26 that meant six different desk clusters, a couple at the front, a couple near the middle and two at […]
Connect, Collaborate and Create
Connect, collaborate and create. Three simple verbs, which have been tweeted by so many recently. In particular Pip Cleaves a connected learning consultant from New South Wales in Australia. Who has written an excellent post in which she discusses how these verbs are changing the face of digital education in her region of NSW. She […]
The Power of Twitter
I am a primary teacher and every year for the past five years I have taught my class a unit of work on Antarctica. In the NSW syllabus the study of Antarctica is part of the Human Society and Its Environment syllabus for Stage 3. The NSW Syllabus documents provide guidelines and expectations on what the […]
Change – for better or worse?
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.” – Anon I have often heard it said that as a group, teachers resist change more than anyone. Maybe we simply dislike or mistrust change so readily, that it’s easier to stay comfortable. Perhaps this is the reason why many of us resist the lure […]
From little things big things grow
I am beginning to feel that at last the ball is rolling. As Paul Kelly once sang…from little things big things grow. If you follow this blog you will know that after a particularly frustrating techie brekkie, I decided to return to basics. To stop trying to inspire my staff with new and exciting tools […]
Global Connections – Team Work
Last week I reflected on how teachers need to work together and collaborate to break down the barriers of the classroom walls and how empowering it was to connect with other teachers and collaborate through Twitter. Learning to work with others is such a difficult task, that perhaps it really is no surprise that some […]
Excitement in the classroom
All teachers plan and program to the best of their abilities. They try to prepare engaging and exciting lessons and to plan interesting learning opportunities. After all engaged and interested students come to school happy, are eager to learn and cause few discipline problems. Sometimes though it is the extra things, the unplanned for opportunities […]