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Over the last year and a half, I have been thinking on this, ever since being introduced to the stress hormone cortisol. As always, I looked for a different way of presenting what I found out, and what I think…
Over the last few nights, I have worked away going through all 61 of the accepted and approved Achievement Challenges that active CoL’s have put out. I spent time going through each one and noting down the key aspects of…
Part of establishing a CoL has been the task of setting an “Achievement Challenge” that all schools in your CoL will aim for and target. In the initial stages, schools were gun ho, with vast varieties of creative innovations for…
The next phase of the privatisation of the education system is in full swing, with a series of schools being lured by the promise of $365million into Communities of Learning. Although there was a slight majority of 93% of NZEI…
Hi all Over the last few months, I’ve been taking registrations for my site. It has been quite a good exercise for me to give it a go. However, the sign up rate, as well as what I could actually…
The new year begins tomorrow for most teacher’s, and I felt that what better time to have a bit of fun to make those first days back at work a little more bearable. So here it is, the inaugural Teacher’s…
Last year I purchased Ken Robinson’s ‘Creative Schools’ book after viewing his highly popular TED talk video in which he made quite a lot of sense. To be honest, I’m not much of a reader. I tend to stick to…
National Standards in their seventh year – NZCER At the mid point of 2016, we were presented with a survey which was sent off to NZCER for the current views of teaching proffesionals views on National Standards. 6 months later,…
Introduction Previously I wrote about the impact of Daily 5 in a Year 3 and 4 class. In this article I focus in on some of those students, as well as others, who have made progress under Daily 5. For…
Introduction I have seen first hand the benefits of Daily 5, as have the initiators of the programme when they first started it. In this article I focus in on one particular student in my class this year. For privacy,…