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Andrew Williamson

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  • Andrew Williamson on 29 Jul 12
     
    On June 21 2012, the Government released a discussion paper which states its vision for the improvement of the teaching profession. The 'New Directions for School Leadership and the Teaching Profession,' aims to stimulate and inform discussion on the future of the teaching profession and school leadership.  As a collective of grass roots teachers, who are not currently being asked to participate in educational debates and discussion, we see this as an opportunity to enable teachers' voice.   Teachers: A great, yet untapped, source for policy makers.
Andrew Williamson

The Problem With Tech and Teaching - SlashGear - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 22 Jan 12
     
    Fantastic article that discusses the complexities of being a teacher that in an impoverished school. A must read for perspective. 
Andrew Williamson

What should students do once they can read? - Richard Olsen's Blog - 1 views

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  • the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria’s education outcomes are not improving is the report “Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students’ reading, mathematical and scientific literacy”
  • While it doesn’t seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today’s technology driven world.
  • We need to understand the new social world that both our students and our teachers live and learn in.
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  • A world where the experts are no longer in charge, a world where autonomous self-directed learners are skilled at co-constructing new knowledge in unknown and uncertain environments
  • A world where knowledge is complex and is changing.
  • Our students need to be immersed in the modern learning, made possible by modern technology and free of the compromises that up til now our education system has been based on.
  • Andrew Williamson on 14 Aug 12
     
    Looking at the New Directions for school leadership and the teaching profession discussion paper, the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria's education outcomes are not improving is the report "Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy" Specifically the New Directions paper focuses on reading literacy, where in 2009, 14,251 students were given a two-hour pen and paper comprehension test. To get an idea of what types of competencies the reading test is assessing we can look at the sample test , with questions range from comprehension about a letter in a newspaper, the ability to interpret a receipt, comprehension around a short story, an informational text, and interpreting a table. While it doesn't seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today's technology driven world.
Giuliana Abdo

Buongiorno Ragazzi! - 1 views

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  • Giuliana Abdo on 22 Feb 12
     
    This is our Italian blog at North Fitzroy Primary school in Victoria Australia. It has information about activities taught, important dates and ideas for incidental teaching in the classroom. Please leave a post! Arrivederci!
Andrew Williamson

Using Picture Books to Teach Persuasive Writing Skills - Associated Content from Yahoo!... - 1 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 25 Jan 11
     
    So it looks like persuasive writing is on the agenda for NAPLAN, surprise, surprise... This is a great post on using picture story books to assist in teaching persuasive writing. If anything it the books listed are worth having a look at with your students
Andrew Williamson

Streaming primary school pupils labels them for life | Education | The Guardian - 1 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 09 Aug 11
     
    Streaming, tracking, targeted teaching does it work?
Giuliana Abdo

BBC - Primary History - Romans - 0 views

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  • Giuliana Abdo on 13 Apr 12
     
    Teaching students about roman history in context 
Giuliana Abdo

Online Lesson - Legend of Rome - 0 views

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online lesson legend rome

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  • The Legend of Rome
  • Giuliana Abdo on 13 Apr 12
     
    Awesome website for teaching historical topics via games/quizes/wordfinds/information/stories
Giuliana Abdo

Online Lessons - main page - 0 views

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  • Giuliana Abdo on 13 Apr 12
     
    Awesome site for teaching history
kynan robinson

What Is Integrated Curriculum? - 0 views

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shared by kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Can making wind and rain machines improve the reading comprehension and writing scores of elementary students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test? Do students really learn math by learning to clog dance? When students spend after-school time participating in a microsociety that reflects the roles of real life, will their test scores in math and reading improve?
  • Lee's students have shown more than 100 percent gains in comprehension and writing on the FCAT.
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      kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
       
      Its sad that we even have to ask these questions, what about increased levels of creative thought, or deeper understanding of social interactions etc etc etc
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  • Lee claims that when she teaches science concepts she also teaches students to think and write in the structured, coherent ways required on standardized tests
  • What exactly is integrated curriculum? In its simplest conception, it is about making connections. What kind of connections? Across disciplines? To real life? Are the connections skill-based or knowledge-based?
  • we defined three approaches to integration—multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary
  • Multidisciplinary approaches focus primarily on the disciplines.
  • When teachers integrate the subdisciplines within a subject area, they are using an intradisciplinary approach
  • Through this integration, teachers expect students to understand the connections between the different subdisciplines and their relationship to the real world.
  • In this approach to integration, teachers organize the curriculum around common learnings across disciplines. T
  • ey chunk together the common learnings embedded in the disciplines to emphasize interdisciplinary skills and concepts.
  • They are learning the interdisciplinary skill of communication (thinking and writing in a structured and coherent way).
  • In the transdisciplinary approach to integration, teachers organize curriculum around student questions and concerns (see Figure 1.3). Students develop life skills as they apply interdisciplinary and disciplinary skills in a real-life context. Two routes lead to transdisciplinary integration: project-based learning and negotiating the curriculum
  • Project-Based Learning. In project-based learning, students tackle a local problem. Some schools call this problem-based learning or place-based learning. According to Chard (1998), planning project-based curriculum involves three steps:
  • Teachers and students select a topic of study based on student interests, curriculum standards, and local resources. The teacher finds out what the students already know and helps them generate questions to explore. The teacher also provides resources for students and opportunities to work in the field. Students share their work with others in a culminating activity. Students display the results of their exploration and review and evaluate the project.
  • Negotiating the Curriculum. In this version of the transdisciplinary approach, student questions form the basis for curriculum.
  • Studies of project-based programs show that students go far beyond the minimum effort, make connections among different subject areas to answer open-ended questions, retain what they have learned, apply learning to real-life problems, have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism
  • The boundaries of the disciplines seemed to dissolve abruptly.
  • The essential difference between the three approaches was the perceived degree of separation that existed between subject areas. Given our experiences at the time, both of us believed that the three approaches fit on an evolutionary continuum.
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      kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
       
      all education is evolutionary which is why we need to keep studying, reading investigating asking questions
  • suggests that even intradisciplinary projects should include math and literature/media to be rich and vibrant
  • backward design process.
  • We believe that educators will continue to experience deepening connections as they become more experienced in this area.
  • Real-life context Student questions
  • Coplanner Colearner Generalist/specialist
  • Disciplines identified if desired, but real-life context emphasized
  • All knowledge interconnected and interdependent Many right answers Knowledge considered to be indeterminate and ambiguous
  • Student questions and concerns Real-world context
  • Interdisciplinary skills/concepts stressed
  • shift
  • Interdisciplinary skills and disciplinary skills applied in a real-life context
  • kynan robinson on 18 Apr 12
     
    great overview of different approaches to integrated  Curriculum
Andrew Williamson

Free Online Time Games - Telling the time - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 08 May 12
     
    Teaching time and want some time fillers ;-) Its all here
Andrew Williamson

FAPSA - Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations Past co... - 2 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 24 Jun 12
     
    Thoughtful Classroom: Teaching to overcome educational disadvantage  conference notes from presenters. This was a great conference with some amazing ideas. A couple of the presenters have shared there presentations here. 
Ross Toogood

The TES - Education Jobs, Teaching Resources, Magazine & Forums - 0 views

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  • Ross Toogood on 25 Jun 12
     
    More handy resources
kynan robinson

Oba : College of Education : University of Oregon - 2 views

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  • kynan robinson on 06 Aug 12
     
    a place where anyone can teach and anyone can take a lesson
Andrew Williamson

Tessellation: The Mathematics of TilingMathematics and Multimedia - 0 views

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    Doing shape and or tessellation in Maths??? This blog post could come in handy. Some interesting discussion on tessellation in real life. So the next question is why do we teach tessellation in maths? Shouldn't we just get rid of this aspect of maths and create a new subject called design??
Andrew Williamson

Transmedia: A new instructional literacy | Instructional Design Fusions - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 14 Feb 12
     
    Transmedia is it the new way to teach storytelling/writing? This idea could fit nicely into our students multi platformed online lives and communities. Interesting. 
Sophie Gatenby

SparkleBox - 0 views

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  • Sophie Gatenby on 31 Aug 09
     
    1000s FREE printable teaching resources - phonics, posters, labels, signs, activities and more!
Steve Stafford

Storyline Online - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 21 Aug 09
     
    Great online stories read by some famous actors. Produced by The Screen Actors Guild, its a great resource especially for book week.
  • Steve Stafford on 31 Aug 09
     
    Great site that I used many times whilst teaching in the U.K. Speed of server can at times affect the stories, overall a gem!
kynan robinson

My Blog - 0 views

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    using ipod touces to teach
Andrew Williamson

Global Teacher - Blog Directory and Web 3.0 Community » Blog Archive » Teachi... - 0 views

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  • Andrew Williamson on 26 Feb 10
     
    This is a great post on how to guide students to write powerful comments. Something that I think we should start concentrating on now that we have the blogging thing up and running. 
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