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Roland Gesthuizen

Inspiration delivers. | The Principal's Posts - 110 views

principalposts.edublogs.org/...inspiration-delivers

principal motivation training PD teachertraining blog

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Nov 10
     
    My vision for how staff development should look in my school has undergone a transformation over the past year. In my first year as a principal I recall the dread of conducting the marathon faculty meeting on opening day, droning on and on about everything from recess line-up procedures to my expectations for lesson plan submissions.
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Why are new teachers leaving in droves? | Education | The Guardian - 57 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...teaching-problem-schools

Guardian teaching career UK UKGuardian

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Nov 10
     
    Nearly half of all newly qualified teachers leave the profession within five years. Charlie Carroll went on the road for a year, working in the most challenging schools, to find out why
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A work in progress...: Job Interview Preparation - 71 views

fiona-workinprogress.blogspot.com/...job-interview-preparation.html

career jobs interview

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Nov 10
     
    "How long has it been since you interviewed for a job? It's been a long time for me. In the past, I've enjoyed job interviews. Enjoyed them? Yes. I know that interviews can be a nerve-wracking experience, but I tend to do well in a "performance" situation .. I'm not bragging! I just tend to rise to the challenge of being "on show"."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Nov 10
     
    Handy advice for teachers looking for jobs and sitting through an interview.
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Scribble Maps - Draw on google maps with scribblings and more! - 2 views

www.scribblemaps.com

googlemaps google geography mapping art

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 14 Nov 10
     
    Lets you create custom maps on top of existing GoogleMaps.
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2010 October - feature: do schools need ICT? - 26 views

www.atl.org.uk/...feature-schools-ict.asp

2010 ICT schools education trends mLearning eLearning budget finance 1:1 blog ATL

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 14 Nov 10
     
    Ian Yorston explains why investment in ICT doesn't necessarily pay "If you had to spend a million pounds, you'd really hope to have something to show for it. Yet most schools have spent at least that on ICT and get nothing obvious in return - aside from a few hundred PCs running Windows XP and a handful of smart gadgets."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 14 Nov 10
     
    Ian Yorston explains why the current investment in ICT doesn't pay "If you had to spend a million pounds, you'd really hope to have something to show for it. Yet most schools have spent at least that on ICT and get nothing obvious in return - aside from a few hundred PCs running Windows XP and a handful of smart gadgets."
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Fractals without a Computer! | Good Math, Bad Math - 32 views

scientopia.org/...fractals-without-a-computer

fractals computer camera

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  • We tend to think of fractals in computational terms, because in general we generate fractal images using digital computers. But you don’t need to. Fractals are actually fascinatingly ubiquitous, and you can produce them in lots of different ways – not just digitally.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Nov 10
     
    "In this video, what they've done is set up three screens, in a triangular pattern, and set them to display the input from a camera.. If you watch, they're able to manipulate it to get Julia fractals, Sierpinski triangles, and several other really famous fractals. "
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Nov 10
     
    Fractals without a Computer
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Parent-Teacher Meetings: What Works | Parentella - 86 views

blog.parentella.com/...nt-teacher-meetings-what-works

teacher parent meetings school assessment

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 01 Nov 10
     
    "As an educator in my twelfth year of teaching, I've had my share of meetings with parents. There have been Back to School Night "conferences," "junior was misbehaving, so please come meet with me" conferences, and more. There are a few things that I have found that work well with regards to the special relationship between parents and teachers."
Roland Gesthuizen

The Innovative Educator: Think you're a Digital Immigrant? Get Over It! - 103 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...igital-immigrant-get-over.html

digitalcitizenship PLN learning professional technology blog elearning education

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  • educators hesitant to use the modern tools of today, to stop relying on others and take ownership of their learning and suggests this can be done through developing a personal learning network
  • educators must take ownership of their learning rather than waiting for/relying on others to provide it.
  • Teachers do not need to be technology experts to allow students to use it to retrieve information, collaborate, create, and communicate
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Oct 10
     
    There is less tolerance for educators who do not believe it is their responsibility to move their teaching out of the past. Those stuck in the past... those who are not developing their own personal learning networks... those not taking ownership for their learning... are doing a great disservice to our students and themselves.
Roland Gesthuizen

Questioning Toolkit - 149 views

questioning.org/toolkit.html

questioning collaboration classroom teaching tool reference resources discussion eLearning FNO

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Oct 10
     
    Each district should create a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools. This Questioning Toolkit should be printed in large type on posters which reside on classroom walls close by networked, information-rich computers. Portions of the Questioning Toolkit should be introduced as early as Kindergarten so that students can bring powerful questioning technologies and techniques with them as they arrive in high school.
Roland Gesthuizen

Education Week's Digital Directions: Schools Open Doors to Students' Mobile Devices - 44 views

www.edweek.org/...01mobile.h04.html

education edweek mobile mlearning smartphone students policy technology

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Oct 10
     
    At Oak Hills High School in suburban Cincinnati, students returned from summer break to learn they were free not only to bring their mobile devices to school, but also to use them-at their teachers' discretion-to connect to the school's wireless network to do their work .. In Chicago, the Mikva Challenge's student-leadership branch suggested in an August report that the city's public schools allow students to use their own smartphones on campus for learning.
Roland Gesthuizen

International Society for Technology in Education - Blog > A Rose is Still a Rose: Tran... - 107 views

www.iste.org/...rom_Abstraction_to_Action.aspx

ISTE NETS standards curriculum technology planning education plainenglish

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Oct 10
     
    The NETS help guide technology planning and curriculum development for all grade levels and provide a roadmap for digital age learning, teaching and leadership .. Recently, educators working on a NETS web page for staff and students tackled the challenge by translating the NETS for Students into action verbs .. Here's what they've come up with:"
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Oct 10
     
    Great to see these technology curriculum standards broken down into easy to digest verbs!
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Out-of-tune plans should hit a shorter note - News - TES Connect - 47 views

www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx

lessonplan teacher teaching curriculum blog

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  • All an experienced teacher needs is one big plan and short prompts for lessons
  • Far from being scientific, as the word "evidence" implies, this faith in the written plan is almost superstitious
  • Teaching has become a plan-centred profession. The things you do are only validated by written evidence that you intended to do them. It makes no sense, yet is widely accepted
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  • Respond to the child, not the plan.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Oct 10
     
    "If I could have your detailed lesson plans for next week, that would be great. Thanks!" Why? We plan too much. Long-term plans, in-depth plans, planning per week, per lesson, per pupil. Yet we work with unpredictable children, so we revise our plans because the lesson didn't go according to plan.
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the five stages of grading | not that kind of doctor - 108 views

notthatkindofdoctor.com/...the-five-stages-of-grading

assessment marking reporting teaching education curriculum

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Oct 10
     
    "In coping with grading, it's important for graduate students and young professors to know that they are not alone and that this process takes time. Not everyone goes through every stage or processes the reality of grading in this order, but everyone experiences some version of at least two of these steps."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Oct 10
     
    This article lists the experience that most teachers go through over a weekend when they are faced with a huge marking task, clearly identifying the 5 different stages that they will probably go through.
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Should students memorise their essays? - 15 views

www.smh.com.au/...eir-essays-20101015-16nmz.html

student learning memory examination assessent testing SMH

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  • There is a moral dimension to the process. It is one thing to memorise an answer which you have prepared, but it is wrong to present an answer prepared by someone else.
  • Answer memorisation is inevitable in high-stakes and somewhat predictable examinations.
  • High-stakes tests always corrupt teaching, learning and curriculum.
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  • The reality is that many questions are answered by a process of ''recognition of sameness''.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Oct 10
     
    "Examiners will struggle because the HSC exams have a degree of predictability. They are based on known content and skills. They use the same, known format. If the exam drifts too far from past norms people scream and the media vent complaints of unfairness. The consequence is that parts of exams are readily exploited by prepared answers."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Oct 10
     
    Intersting implications when we rely on state wide examinations to assess students.
Roland Gesthuizen

Get Schooled - 46 views

www.getschooled.com/how-does-your-school-score

schoolperformance assessment GatesFoundation measure

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Oct 10
     
    "Ever wondered how your local schools were doing? Trying to sift through the data that is publicly available is an enormous task. The information is not easy to find and rarely has context to help you understand what the statistics mean for your student, your school, your district, the state you live in, and the rest of the country."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Oct 10
     
    When we distill schools into "one easy click", students are reduced to a single number, ranked on a ladder of life.
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BBC - Learning Zone Class Clips - Futuristic school has circular classrooms - Maths - 42 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...5817.html

schools LearningSpaces building facilities video

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Oct 10
     
    As building work gets underway for a new school, Gareth Nutt, head of property and regeneration at Neath Port Talbot council, describes its unusual circular design. The classrooms in this new school will be circular so all pupils feel included. The building environment is controlled with windows which automatically open when rooms get too hot. This clip was first published on BBC News Online on 15 January 2009. Please note this clip is only available in Flash.
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YouTube - Your interactive whiteboard may never be the same again - 132 views

www.youtube.com/watch

interactive whiteboard youtube IWB

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Oct 10
     
    "The Edusim on an ActiveBoard or SMARTBoard turns your interactive whiteboard into a 3D interactive virtual environment ! immersive Touch"
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Oct 10
     
    Children creating a 3D environment through the Croquet program back in 2007. Students give some interesting feedback at the end of the clip.
Roland Gesthuizen

'Dance Your Ph.D.' Finalists Announced - ScienceNOW - 49 views

news.sciencemag.org/...ur-phd-finalists-announce.html

dance arts science research competition video

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  • Over the past 3 years, scientists from around the world have teamed up to create dance videos based on their graduate research.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 10
     
    "The dreaded question. "So, what's your Ph.D. research about?" You could bore them with an explanation. Or you could dance. That's the idea behind "Dance Your Ph.D." Over the past 3 years, scientists from around the world have teamed up to create dance videos based on their graduate research. This year's contest, launched in June by Science, received 45 brave submissions. "
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 10
     
    What a great idea, to dance your way to new understandings and thinking :-)
Roland Gesthuizen

Six ways that artists hack your brain - New Scientist - 73 views

www.newscientist.com/...s-that-artists-hack-your-brain

art psychology NewScientist brain behaviour

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Sep 10
     
    Since humankind first put brush to canvas, artists have played with the mind and the senses to create sublime atmospheres and odd impressions. It is only recently, with a blossoming understanding of the way the brain deconstructs images, that neuroscientists and psychologists have finally begun to understand how these tricks work.
Roland Gesthuizen

Closing the talent gap | Social Sector Office - 16 views

www.mckinsey.com/...Closing_the_talent_gap.aspx

report teacher teachertraining kckinsey motivation engagement international

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Sep 10
     
    Improving teacher effectiveness to lift student achievement has become a major theme in U.S. education. Most efforts focus on improving the effectiveness of teachers already in the classroom or on retaining the best performers and dismissing the least effective. Attracting more young people with stronger academic backgrounds to teaching has received comparatively little attention.
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