Tag: teacher
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 […]
Why I love Wednesdays
Wednesday – The hump day, a not quite halfway through the week kind of a day. A day when the weekend still seems far away. There are many famous quotes about Wednesday. Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God’s grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, […]
When technology lets you down
I wonder if the uptake of technology into a teacher’s daily routine might have anything to do with whether you are a glass half full or a glass half empty kind of person? Let me explain further. Last week I planned to introduce my class to glogster. I had done the preparation. I had signed up […]
The 15 minute rule
I read this on Twitter a few days ago and it immediately struck a chord with me. “3x a week take 15min playing with new digi tool, 1x a wk 15min to integrate the tool into an existing lesson via @benpaddlejones“ So I retweeted it and added something like this. “This week I have explored […]
Celebrating the blogging Primary Teacher
Did you know that depending on which statistic you believe that there are somewhere between 133,000,000 and 200,000,000 blogs that have been indexed by Technorati since 2002 according to their report State of the Blogosphere. Now obviously most of these are not written by teachers but even if just a tiny percentage is, that is […]
Assessing the teacher
The students in my class have been with me for just ten weeks and soon I will have to start writing their interim reports. So in the midst of all the interesting, authentic real life learning going on, I also have to assess them. In my class this happens in many ways, both formative and […]
Mentoring a Student Teacher
I have a student teacher in my classroom. So I thought I would reflect this week on why I take students, what I think I offer them and on what I think they can bring to the classroom. Firstly, why do I take a student? I think that essentially it is because I am trying to give […]
Team work
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, […]
Global Connections – Help wanted
The main part of this post is taken directly from my class blog, year5rc, which I run together with my co-teacher Pru. As with this blog, we are only just getting going but already it is such a positive part of our school day and program that I would not give it up. This term […]
Teaching the teachers
I spent yesterday with a group of committed, eager to learn primary teachers. They were from a growing school on the outskirts of Sydney which has a reasonable number of classroom computers, some brand new SMARTboards and no dedicated ICT teacher. I was there at the invitation of their head teacher and with permission from […]