EdBookNZ Terms – 2015
This year I was asked to write a guest article for EdBookNZ 2015, which is an initiative started up for the Connected Educator month of October each year. Check it out here
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The Collaborative Classroom
The Collaborative Classroom Teaching environments and modern ways of reinventing knowledge. The silent classroom is a thing of the past. Long days at your desk, all facing north, with the teacher’s desk aligned in the opposite direction at the front…
Class Stories – Great read aloud books to read to your class
Over the many years of teaching in the middle primary school, I have been a huge advocate for reading to the class. I was read to as a student by my teachers and those memories of the stories stay with…
Assessment Assessment Assessment
In the current education climate, teachers are finding themselves with the responsibility of making OTJ’s (Overall Teacher Judgements) to report to parents about their child’s academic achievements, but the requirement to have evidence for these judgements. These are rarely school…
Are Modern Learning Environments a Fad?
We’ve all heard it in news, and seen it in the high glossy magazines or furniture websites, claiming ergonomic desks provide a quieter classroom, or driving through the new housing development with a 21st Century school nearby while the state…
Using Google Apps in the Classroom
Please read my full article here: The Use of Chromebooks and Google Apps in Education There are multiple reasons why we decided to head down the Chromebook and Google App path. While I do not wish to delve into all of…
Books. Books. iBooks.
Those that know me know I am not much of a reader. Obviously I have to keep that quite quiet in the classroom, because I want to encourage my class to read as much as possible. To do so, I…
Performance Pay Gets in the Way
In Education in New Zealand over the last couple of months, we have heard the threats of performance pay, and bumping up class sizes, and developing better teachers. This has been well documented in the press, with recent articles on…
Guidelines for Classroom Blogs
It can be a tricky task selecting what to include in your classroom blog, and what to leave out. The following are some guidelines that will hopefully keep you safe, whilst allowing your content to remain interesting and keep students…
Teaching: The Noise Level
A while back I made a class resource that was as much fun making as it is using. Many people use the Traffic Light model for noise level indication, with Red being “Silent”, Orange being “Quietly Working” and Green being…