Back to school next week. Here's a nice little piece of reading to infuse into your thoughts to begin the new semester. When I was at high school, the standard line trotted out to us at parent information evenings and during career education was that a significant percentage of us would find themselves employed [...]
Some colleagues of mine in Singapore linked me to this video about the value of visualising data. Giving your numbers some visual form and aesthetic sense helps bring your message to life for those of us not blessed with a naturally quantitative brain. The notion of incorporating elements of design also raises some interesting ideas [...]
In my last post I talked about cultivating a positive learning culture within your school as a foundation for a happy, upbeat, successful professional learning program. I also talked about the positive effects it can have on the learning environment for the students in terms of overall nature of the relationships between the student [...]
When we take our class on an excursion, we have the whole damn thing mapped out meticulously in our heads, our clipboards, our inboxes, on our phones/tablets, and in the heads of our co-workers and students. Not just in this reality, either. We've got plans, backup plans, and contingency plans for every possible eventuality [...]
I won't lie, I got into education in the first place as a fairly academic exercise. I'd just finished my undergraduate degree in developmental psychology at my fairly straight-laced, empirical university, was still getting a pretty massive kick out of learning, and wanted to go and gather some real-world ammo for a Masters project. [...]
