I have been involved in a very stimulating conversation on Durff’s blog around the issue of ethics in the classroom.
Both Durff and I agree that ethical behaviour must be stressed in the classroom and modeled by teachers. I think you can tell from our comments that we are both quite passionate about this.
Where our views [...]
I’ll be starting a new job on the 27th of August. I’ll be teaching and designing a new program for students in Grades 9-11 at Howard S. Billings High School in Chateauguay, Quebec.
This morning I published a new blog to accompany this new adventure of mine and to give voice to the stories I [...]
Since yesterday, I have been involved in a conversation on Will Richardson’s post The Future of Teaching.
The first part of this post was originally posted as a comment to The Future of Teaching.
I am getting the idea that we, at least those of us involved in this conversation, are ready to act on new ideas. [...]
Image: found on the Internet Ray Tracing Competition website
Found this, love it.
We must reject the ideology of the “achievement gap” that absolves
adults of their responsibility and implies student culpability in
continued under-performance. The student achievement gap is merely the
effect of a much larger and more debilitating chasm: The Educator
Achievement Gap. We must erase the distance between [...]
Image: Balance by EisforEdmund made available on flickr with a creative commons license.
I came across this little statistic today.
65%
Proportion
of former public school teachers who say they’re better able to balance
work and life now that they’re working outside the education field.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education; National Center for Education Statistics Teacher Follow-up Survey.
What do you think [...]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk]
I will be returning to the classroom at the end of August after a year as a special education consultant and professional development facilitator. I decided to return for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I miss the energy I pick up from daily contact with students and the next [...]
Scott McLeod’s post First … Then … Now … Next introduced me to the 4-slides sales pitch contest, hosted by Dan Meyer at dy/dan. Here are my slides.
This was fun to do – AND I discovered an alternative to SlideShare, which has yet to work for me! It is called SlideBurner.
**update – now that I [...]
image: Shadowed Crones by Rudha’an, found on flickr and offered under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license.
What I love about keeping a blog is the insight I glean from those in my blogging community. The other day I published a post called Understanding the Machine and in one of Christopher’s comments I found a [...]
Image: photo of the St Lawrence River taken by me, available on flickr.
mrsdurff introduced me to Class 2.0 in a recent comment on Understanding the Machine.
I love the idea behind this site, and behind different workshops that places like LEARN in Quebec offer teachers.
How do we negotiate the space between resources on the one [...]
Image: Conversation by thehighschoolchick made available on flickr with a creative commons license.
Lately I have been voraciously reading and learning from different edubloggers. I am seeing my passion for authentic learning for our kids (and myself!) reflected in their posts. Here are just a few of the posts that have turned my crank in the [...]
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