I have always promoted team work in my classroom, sometimes I will put my students into groups, at other times I will let them choose. Of course some groups will work better than others, some achieve much, some nothing at all. A few are content to sit back and let others take over, while others try to dominate, to boss, […]
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It’s the holidays here in Sydney a much needed time of rest and relaxation. A time to recharge ones internal batteries and prepare for next term. Teachers are much maligned […]
This post has been designed to supplement my presentation for the Australian School Librarian Conference on Tuesday October 4. Communicating for the 21st century: using tools such as Edmodo and student […]
A few days ago I attempted to reflect on some of the questions the Ulearn10 keynote speakers raised. Today I am going to try and reflect on some of the […]
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Testing in the Primary classroom – NAPLAN
It’s National Assesment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) week here in Australia. For those of you overseas what this has meant for my class is the following: On Tuesday they had a 40 minute language test of grammar and spelling, followed by a 50 minute narrative writing test. On Wednesday they took a 50 minute reading comprehension test. And today, […]