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Mathematics add-on for google forms

Hi Everyone, This is my first idea for assignment 2, it is a year 4 science unit. enjoy

Posted by Kathleen Morris (McGeady) January 29th 2010. Before you set up your class blog, it's really important to think about what rules and guidelines you will put into place and make sure the students and parents are clear about these.

The link above is a site which has a number of games for English and mathematics. The games are fun and interactive for all students. (they are even great for students in primary upper who are at a low level for English and mathematics.

A nice little resource ... Could use in either English or Ancient History. I think that it would work better for Ancient History though in terms of content.

I found My Place to be a very useful site. Another one was http://stolengenerationstestimonies.com/index.php/about_stolen_generations.html

Using technology in the early years

TAHOE-TRUCKEE, Calif. - There is a swirl of attention being paid to rapidly evolving technology and its role in early education. Research continues to bear out that young children

This is a blog created by two early childhood teachers that post awesome ideas for play based learning. Very interesting and very helpful to use as a early years teacher.

This is a blog created by two early childhood teachers that post awesome ideas for play based learning. Very interesting and very helpful to use as a early years teacher.

The Week 2 activity in asked What's your pedagogy? got me thinking, I decided that building relationships with my students was extremely important to me. I agree with this article and Elena Aguilar shares a very similar pedagogy, her classroom is not just individual students, it's a community in which everyone belong

Awesome question! I have a number of motto's but I think one stands tall amongst them all. We are all equal and put downs of course are not to be tolerated but I believe more focus on student fear of failure resulting in a lack of effort to succeed. There will be times in our career where we will witness students losing motivation due to ridicule from peers or even self-ridicule. More than once I have heard in a maths classroom a student admitting, "Oh I'm not good at maths", even when I can see that they are quite capable. Effectively the student is giving themself permission to fail. My moto is "THANKS FOR CORRECTING ME!" Too often students fear answering a questions in case they get it wrong, and some students will abuse others for their mistakes. It is a cultural attitude that is in the workplace as well as the classroom. If someone voices that they have discovered a mistake you have made, then that gives you the opportunity to correct yourself. If you cannot see the error, then it is an opportunity for them to teach you something new. It doesn't matter which way you look at it, mistakes should be celebrated as a collaborative learning opportunity, and as teachers we should encourage this. Olympic gold medal winner Adam Kreek talks about happy failure and emergence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8P7Ni1NwB0