Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Presenter: Trevor Bond
A thinker is a learner.
A learner is a questioner.
A questioner is a learner
A thinker is a questioner.
Questioning is the engine house of thinking (de bono)
Questioning is our most important intellectural tool (Neil Postman)
Who asks the mosts questions in the classroom – teachers or students and to what ratio?
Teachers 99.98% (mostly administrative and convergent, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Access through EPIC on TKI school login. A research tool for teaching skills to students. Around 60,000 safe website links. Access online24/7 home or school. If you search a keyword from the main page it will give you hits from the different levels on Britannica depending on student age and ability. Also choices for media [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2008 No Comments »
HOW CAN WE HELP STUDENTS BETTER KNOW THEMSELVES AS LEARNERS?
7 OCTOBER 2008
PAM HOOK AND JULIE MILLS, HOOKED ON THINKING
What is learning in child speak?
Collecting and using new knowledge to use it in new ways
Give examples and contexts
Growing, changing, learning to know, learning to be
Linking new with what you already know
Processing
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2008 No Comments »
BREAKOUT 1
INQUIRY LEARNING THE COLEY WAY
Mary Culling, NE and Jan Thomas, DP
Coley Street School, Foxton
jthomas@coleystreet.school.nz
mculling@coleystreet.school.nz
2nd year of cluster, lead school, second time on cluster
Decile 2, behaviour management problems, focus on engagement in learning, 280 pupils, pods of computers set up in old cloakrooms, laptops in each room
Dual platform school
Started with identifying how students at [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
This week I’ve really started to see that all our cluster work is making a real difference. On Monday afternoon we had a meeting at one school to start personalising an inquiry/learning model for the school. The teachers had previously researched various existing models in groups and presented these at a staff meeting. Our next [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
I was working at three of my cluster schools today and it was amazing! The first was very interesting as I was given the opportunity to observe teachers in the class and then they were released to meet with me one on one to discuss e-Learning goals for this year. This is the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Maybe it was the weather or maybe it was gremlins? Whatever the cause, our IT decided to have a bad day today and I spent the a great deal of time putting out fires. There were laptops, desktops, wireless, SMART Board and projector problems galore and I had to restart the server twice! [...]
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