…on doing what I need to do to make me happy, to make me feel instrumental. That will make me a better teacher.
What about you?
(read the beginning of my last post, also about a QPAT convention speaker, for an explanation of the whole not-live blogging thing)
Apparently there has been a provincial teacher’s association convention in Quebec every year since sometime in the 1800s. I did not know this.
It is interesting that Alfie Kohn is speaking tonight to teachers of [...]
This could also be subtitled ‘my journey from negative to positive head space through frustration to futility and emergent adaptation and integration’. This will make more sense as you read through these notes. It’s a long post. But I came to some aha moments throughout and definitely at the end in terms of PD design.
Anything [...]
“Those that have survived such perils of the sea as typhoons, suffocating red tides, and attacks from predators are brought ashore and opened. if everything has gone well, the result is a lovely, lustrous and very valuable pearl.” Click image for source.
Yesterday after work I was typing up a commitment contract with our head teacher, [...]
Please, Administrators of Canada (and probably the US and Australia, and South Korea, and New Zealand, and Morocco, and…), please stop jumping headfirst into change initiatives and expect your teachers to jump on with you as if they had been there from the start.
Do you know that some of the least effective PD (wish [...]
There is a great conversation going on over at the CASTLE book club blog (orange group) about the teaching of facts and skills. I plan on posting this post over there but my login and password are stored on my home computer, I’m correcting procrastinating correcting English papers at work. For now, I will post [...]
I’ve been tagged by Greg Cruey, who came across this at Clif’s Notes recently.
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Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s technical skills, work [...]
**Kartoo Visual search for paraeducators**
(type paraeducator in the search field, click on the mindmap key)
The idea of extra help in the classroom is becoming more and more a reality for many classroom teachers. As we move away from stand alone resource room models towards inclusion for students with needs there is a recognition that para-educators [...]
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