And I learn that it is not my job to make you feel complete.
To help others to make a better world is healing (Harley Wylie)
I just read a post by Elona Hartjes at Teachers at Risk on homework and came across this wonderful twist on homework:
I like Damion Frye’s approach to homework. He teaches grade nine, and for the last three years has been assigning homework to parents. Yes, that’s right. He’s been giving homework to parents. So how [...]
Steve Ransom pointed me towards this video of a grade 1 teacher and how she uses blogs and wikis in her classroom. There is also some parent and student commentary. Her advice is to start small, with a blog for your classroom, and let yourself grow with it.
I’d like to hear her principal’s perspective [...]
A while ago I created a post in response to recurring themes I was seeing in many blogs around creating change in our schools towards authentic, meaningful learning situations for our students and teachers.
Here is that post.
Today I finally got around to creating a wiki to continue the conversation (thanks to John Brandt for the [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
[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 [...]
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