Posted in learning, teaching on Nov 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
It’s great to see that ACER’s fetish with all things FINLAND continues, as illustrated nicely in today’s Education Age article by Caroline Milburn (not online yet)
I agree with the basic premise of the article, that it’s a focus on quality TEACHING, not TESTING that is likely to lead to improved student learning and that ‘nations [...]
Posted in learning on Sep 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ve seen a python coiled tightly in a tree, toured the Daintree River looking for crocs, saw a sea-eagle soaring over the freshly mown cane fields, swam with schools of fish on the Great Barrier Reef and swam all week in waters that are 24 degrees in days where it’s 29C every day.
Funny, I can’t [...]
Posted in learning, professional learning on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been a bit of a fan of Neville Johnson’s work on the power of professional learning teams engaged in projects for quite a while, and it’s been at the back of a lot of my thinking about the way professional development and staff learning should be mainly organised: in-house and about the real work [...]
Posted in assessment & reporting, learning on Jan 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
An article from the NY times today reports that attempts to measure teachers based on student scores isn’t limited to recent Australian political history. The twist here is that the NY teachers aren’t being told about the plan.
New York City has embarked on an ambitious experiment, yet to be announced, in which some 2,500 [...]
Posted in learning on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I tend to be a little skeptical sometimes about the ACER presentations, centered as they so often are around research, and not real life as it is lived. However, Geoff Masters presentation, Realising the promise of education in the 21st Century, was able to bridge that gap between research and practice.
Masters reiterated how well Australian [...]
Posted in curriculum, learning, teaching on Oct 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
Late in October I presented at the annual Ithaka Conference. The Ithaka Project has been going for about five years and involves nine or so schools in teacher reflection and collaboration. The presentation was a dialogue between Deane Blackner, Julie Landvogt and myself on a number of key questions relating to the central concern: [...]
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