Nice trip to Napier on Monday to spend a few hours learning about PATs.
Progressive Achievement Tests have been used in NZ schools since I was a child – 1970s – and are now high tech with a flash website, scanned answer sheet marking and updated reporting tools.
Some snippets from the course:
We [...]
This recently from Bruce.
Very powerful and interesting!
We need to return to such powerful pedagogy – a pedagogy that values the ‘artistry’ of the teacher and the real lives of the students. If we do this we can make classrooms powerful learning environments for all students – but especially for ‘at risk’ and neglected kids.
I have just begun my 27th year as a teacher – wow!
On Monday and Tuesday we rafted down the Rangitikei River with our senior room. Now I have done some a few things over the years and this experience ranks right up there.
Awesome trip.
Just look at these faces – says everything – and the talking [...]
Bruce Hammonds has been blogging a bit recently about the new New Zealand Education Standards.
I’m with Bruce.
We don’t need standards of this type. All they will do is confuse and disrupt.
However we need to make them work – I’ll try to post about this as we develop our solution.
My first aim is to do as [...]
Louis Schmier has an amazing blog. It is a collection of his experiences as a professor and fellow human.
Today he posted this which I really enjoyed reading.
He is writing about learning and how the system he operates in could do well to change its ways in light of knowledge of how the brain works.
They, like [...]
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