Posted in DS Lites, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Feb 21st, 2009 No Comments »
At Belmore South Public School students have been using DS Lites in several classes for over 12 months.
Ms Fanggiadae’s Stage 2 ’s used them to promote thinking and problem solving skills.
Mrs Pericles Stage 2/3 class used them to explore the Oceans from a scientific and literary perspective.
The DS Lites had been available to students [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, Uncategorized, risk taking on Feb 21st, 2009 No Comments »
A curriculum model that will act as a scaffold is the Learning Teaching Scotland Curriculum for Excellence.
We are in the process of developing our school Maths Scope and Sequence, this follows the outcomes and indicators of the NSW Mathematics Curriculum. However; the outcomes and indicators will be written in the first person thus serving as a discussion [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, risk taking on Feb 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
At the end of 2009 the SRC discussed what they wanted to achieve by the end of their primary school education in the context of our school vision:
Creating a path to the future.
Their ideals were expressed in the following personalised statements.
I am a successful learner.
I expect to:
Achieve
Enjoy learning
Learn how to learn.
I am a confident, [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, risk taking on Feb 1st, 2009 Comments Off
Goals for the day
1. Personalising our school vision: Creating a path to the future.
Staff in groups will deconstruct the following school exit outcomes and reconstruct them so as to put the student at the centre of learning,
eg. “I am a successful learner and I expect to:
The exit outcomes our students will [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Games and Literacy, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Jan 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
The challenge for this year is supporting the staff, most of whom are new and within their first three years of teaching to develop and sustain quality teaching practices.
It is my belief that as an educator our core business is supporting students’ learning. Personalising learning is the key to engaging and motivating student learning. It [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Dec 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
To develop such a curriculum is neither difficult nor time consumming. The role of the teacher is of utmost importance; not as the fount of knowledge but as the listener, the guide, the facilitator, the skills’ expert.
It is the teacher’s role to focus on students learning how to learn. Teachers have many skills that enable us to achieve [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
The uncertainty that this question conjures in me, a settled mature adult, is deep. How then can we expect our students and children to know what the future holds given the exponential rate of change we are experiencing in the field of information. The 19th and 20th Century core values are being clutched at by [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, risk taking on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Shared Leadership is central to all that is happening in our school. Sure the Principal, as line manager, has to accept responsibility for all that occurs in the school;however, if the Principal can learn to let go and work with the strengths of those about them then the working/learning environment becomes its own powerful model [...]
Posted in Future Learning, Leadership, risk taking on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Desire to keep on learning, exploring, discovering and recognise everyone is a learner
Continually accept new challenges
High expectations of self and others
Taking risks
Daring to be different
Open to ideas from all sources
Flexibile
There is a time for everyone to lead, the more leaders the better
A desire for personal power is not a key motivator
developing a happy, safe working [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Oct 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Profound words from George Brown so many years ago. This is the second day of the ACEL Conference 2007. It was a treat to listen to Peter Senge this morning. His message was basically “learning is not teaching” and as educators we need to find a way to reach kids and meet them in their [...]
