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IB-PYP Inquiry: Relationships with each other affect how we feel and behave....
I’ve been exploring making thinking visible in all curriculum areas. Thinking tools and questioning are being taught and added to a collection of tools the children can choose from to develop...
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Question: What does learning Maths look like? How best will we learn? Visible...
I asked my students to write on sticky notes what they thought learning Maths looked like. After our poster was finished we discussed their ideas and related their ideas to our Learning Cycle. The...
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JD – ANZAC Day 2015 – 6, 7 and 8 Year Old Australian Students Respond …
My Grandpa Marches on Anzac Day: Recognizing Anzac Day is an important part of my program each year and needs to be planned and delivered to young children with sensitivity. Using picture story books...
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Week 1: What I Know for Sure… random thoughts about schools, teaching and...
This year I was given a book to read by a class grandparent after a quick chat. It was What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey. This book has inspired me to write a series of posts on what I know for...
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Making Thinking Visible: Building Understanding through Critical and Creative...
Welcome to the Orientation Session for the WIDE World online course Making Thinking Visible: Building Understanding through Critical and Creative Thinking. We are Sue Curtin and Jane Nordli Jessep...
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Making Thinking Visible: Building Understanding through Critical and Creative...
I’m part of a team completing an online course at Harvard University. Visible Thinking… In the past I’ve completed a number of PD’s on Thinking Tools and used the tools from time to time BUT they never...
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Making Thinking Visible: Building Understanding through Critical and Creative...
My thoughts after reading and article on Thinking Tools as part of my Harvard course. Light bulb moment 1: ‘What kind of thinking does that lesson force students to do?’ When I read this question at...
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What Edna Saxton taught me! It’s OK!
I BLEW IT – Cameron Paterson I’m hoping Edna Saxton is ok with me posting this on my blog. Her recent post about her colleague Layla made me reflect and that’s what a great post does. Layla, my...
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The IB – PYP: That’s where we’ll hang our hat! Part 1 – At the grass roots…
This is the year of the circle. My father always said children need something to hang their hat on and something bigger than them. So what does this mean in terms of learning? Schools are our young...
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IB-PYP: Maps – Gathering prior knowledge: Show me the way to your home from...
We’re learning about maps so I asked my students to show their way home from school. They could choose how they would show their journey. One of my students started drawing…. What did I learn? I know...
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IB-PYP: Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I...
Inquiry as a pedagogical approach is not a method of doing something. It is an approach to learning which is about posing questions. Inquiry starts with a question, wondering, problem or idea which...
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When you know you’ve met an inspirational education leader! Vale Dr....
Last week Australia lost a true advocate for early childhood education. Doctor Elizabeth Mellor was a passionate driver for improved early learning for children and much of her recent work was in this...
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Successful people have certain behaviours: The IB Learner profile and its...
Recently I was introduced to the traits of successful people compared to the traits of unsuccessful people. Having reviewed the traits myself, I decided to introduce this document to my students. My...
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IF is but a little word that sits in the corner!
You may wonder how this post fits into education, but hopefully by the end you will see the link. Recently, my siblings and I had to put our mother into residential care. A huge challenge because...
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Remembrance Day 2015: Weary Dunlop and the IB Learner Profile and attitudes.
Firstly, 2015 was a busy year so my posting was not as frequent as I would have liked. This didn’t stop me writing and recording my learning and my students’ learning. Many of my posts will be uploaded...
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The IB-PYP: Futures Planning & Learning
World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum 2014 -Skills needed in the 21st Century The World Economic Forum 2014 Skills needed in the 21st Century Video 1: What will learning look like in 2028?...
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Western New York Education Associates: My Fellowship Project: Improved...
I’m probably undertaking the longest fellowship research project known to Angela Stockman. Deciding what to research when I have so many ideas has been the hardest thing. Nailing down something that I...
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My PM Benchmark RAR Software Review…
Today I viewed the PM Benchmark online assessment and its brilliant. Anyone who reads my blog knows that I’m always on the hunt for something that will make a teacher’s life easier and for me that...
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If The World Were 100 People …
Video- Good Magazine What an amazing video showing what the world statistics would be if you shrunk the world to 100 people. So what percentage speak English? Great to use in a classroom when exploring...
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Come and meet me: Presentations-Cengage May Dates for Victoria
A lot of young people take a GAP year after secondary school in Australia to try different things. Well, I’m having mine now! I’m using this time to try new things in education, so I’m a CRT, a...
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