teaching and learning

I spent the last day and an evening working with a group of Maths teachers, mainly listening and supporting because a lot of the time I was pretty much out of my depth with the things they were working on. The emphasis though was on thinking in mathematics, and building tasks that require thinking and [...]

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It’s not until October but already pages and conference details are going online for this year’s k12 Online Conference. This was the best conference I didn’t go to last year! And it looks like being even better this year.
They say:
The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around
the world interested in innovative ways [...]

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A bit US-Centric, but it COULD happen here. Jay McTighe played this at the session yesterday:

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I spent most of this rainy Saturday in an Understanding by Design workshop facilitated by US curriculum design guru, Jay McTighe at Melbourne Grammar.
The focus of the day was primarily on stage 2 of the Understanding by Design process: determining acceptable evidence, and I worked in a small team with another Year 12 English teacher [...]

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The renewed emphasis on education, in terms of funding, was refreshing to see in the budget this week. In the small print though, I was disappointed in the scrapping of the Summer School for Teachers Program. I know three teachers who were involved in that program last year, who gave up considerable parts of their [...]

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I stumbled across this blog post on my space while searching out a musician I like (Josh Rouse: for some reason musicians have stuck to myspace!) I though it might very well qualify as THE classic myspace post; the one that defines the genre:
HeY eVeRyOnE!!!
How are you all? Well life for me at the [...]

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