Lockdown Learning – How much is too much?
It seems that not a day goes by without some company out there offering free access to their product until July. Don’t get me wrong, I know that for the most part they’re doing this in all good faith. But…
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COVID-19 Lockdown
Hi all, As I’m sure you can appreciate, I’ve been flat out busy focusing on my class and getting remote learning up and running. I’ve been trialing different things and trying to set up a system for learning that works…
Remote Learning – What I’m doing as a Teacher
So the time has come where COVID-19 has forced us into the inevidable lockdown, and everyone is now required to work from home. As a teacher, the expectation is that we continue to provide an education for students, largely with…
Teaching Portfolios: How to set up a OneNote portfolio
I’ve been using OneNote to build my teacher portfolio for a while now. Back in 2016 I wrote a quick how-to about building your teacher portfolio in OneNote. Back then, of course, there were 12 criteria, and so the template is…
Teaching Portfolios: How to set up a Blog based portfolio
A blog based template is a good way of going about keeping a record of your portfolio. Many people are used to the system of blogging, and the key part of anything is it’s flexibility. Essentially, each piece of evidence…
Teaching Portfolios: Example of My Portfolio
Sometimes the best way to work out what you need in a portfolio is just to see what someone else has done. So I’ve taken a series of whole screen screenshots to show off what I’ve done. It’s not necessarily…
Teaching Portfolios: Standards Based Portfolio
One way in which you can build your teaching portfolio is to use each of the six standards as a different ‘category’ for which to organise your evidence into. This can be done easily in both hard copy portfolios as…
Teaching Porfolios: Date Based Portfolio
One way in which you can build your teaching portfolio is to use each of the years for your registration as a structure for folders and dividers for your portfolio. This can be done easily in both hard copy portfolios as…
Teaching Portfolios: Making them Work
Even though they are not required by the Teaching Council, many schools use Teaching portfolios to show evidence that a teacher is meeting the criteria and standards for registration, and therefore can be signed off when their registration comes up…
Teaching times Ten – Place Holders: Leaves and Rocks
This morning I used the following mental picture to assist students in understanding what happens to numbers when they multiply it by ten. It also allowed for follow up for multiplying by 100. Example 1 Here’s the set up. The…