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Nigel Coutts

From Good to Great: Writing well by Thinking like Authors - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 05 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 05 Apr 20
     
    A common challenge for students and teachers is how to develop a great idea for a piece of writing. Too often students struggle with the process of finding inspiration for their writing. They have a vague idea for the story they hope to tell, but all too quickly it transforms into a list of events with little or no detail. The goal here is to provide our students with a process to use during the planning process. The hope is that by identifying the type of thinking required during the early phases of ideation and to focus their attention on details, that the stories our students subsequently compose will be more enjoyable to read. Hopefully, this process helps.
Rhondda Powling

Children's Books Forever - 4 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 21 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 21 Nov 11
     
    Free children's books that have become classics/favourites and you can use with interactive whiteboards, projectors, etc. Permission granted for non-commercial use.
Rhondda Powling

Free Audio Books - Download an audio book in mp3 or iPod format today! - 5 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 21 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 21 Nov 11
     
    Site offers free audiobooks to download
Lynne Crowe

BookPALS Storyline Online - 0 views

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shared by Lynne Crowe on 26 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Lynne Crowe on 26 Apr 08
     
    A useful resource for classroom or home use. There are activity guides etc for each book . Worth a look.
anonymous

BBC - Skillswise - Words - Grammar - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...grammar

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shared by anonymous on 07 Nov 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 07 Nov 08
     
    The BBC's Skillswise website is a great resource for a wide variety of content areas. On the grammar and spelling page there are 21 activities suitable for students of middle school and high school age.
Tony Searl

In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis - Henry Giroux | Paulo Freire,... - 2 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Yet, teachers are being deskilled, unceremoniously removed from the process of school governance, largely reduced to technicians or subordinated to the authority of security guards. Underlying these transformations are a number of forces eager to privatize schools, substitute vocational training for education and reduce teaching and learning to reductive modes of testing and evaluation.
  • Teachers are no longer asked to think critically and be creative in the classroom.
  • Put bluntly, knowledge that can't be measured is viewed as irrelevant, and teachers who refuse to implement a standardized curriculum and evaluate young people through objective measures of assessments are judged as incompetent or disrespectful
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  • teachers are increasingly removed from dealing with children as part of a broader historical, social and cultural context.
  • Removed from the normative and pedagogical framing of classroom life, teachers no longer have the option to think outside of the box, to experiment, be poetic or inspire joy in their students. School has become a form of dead time, designed to kill the imagination of both teachers and students
  • Under this bill, the quality of teaching and the worth of a teacher are solely determined by student test scores on standardized tests.
  • Moreover, advanced degrees and professional credentials would now become meaningless in determining a teacher's salary.
  • In other words, teaching was always directive in its attempt to shape students as particular agents and offer them a particular understanding of the present and the future.
  • Rather than viewed as disinterested technicians, teachers should be viewed as engaged intellectuals, willing to construct the classroom conditions that provide the knowledge, skills and culture of questioning necessary for students to participate in critical dialogue with the past, question authority, struggle with ongoing relations of power and prepare themselves for what it means to be active and engaged citizens in the interrelated local, national and global public spheres.
  • fosters rather than mandates
  • respects the time and conditions teachers need to prepare lessons, research, cooperate with each other and engage valuable community resources.
  • In part, this requires pedagogical practices that connect the space of language, culture and identity to their deployment in larger physical and social spaces. Such pedagogical practices are based on the presupposition that it is not enough to teach students how to read the word and knowledge critically. They most also learn how to act on their beliefs, reflect on their role as engaged citizens and intervene in the world as part of the obligation of what it means to be a socially responsible agent.
  • As the late Pierre Bourdieu argued, the "power of the dominant order is not just economic, but intellectual - lying in the realm of beliefs," and it is precisely within the domain of ideas that a sense of utopian possibility can be restored to the public realm
  • Tony Searl on 26 Apr 10
     
    teachers are being deskilled, unceremoniously removed from the process of school governance, largely reduced to technicians or subordinated to the authority of security guards. Underlying these transformations are a number of forces eager to privatize schools, substitute vocational training for education and reduce teaching and learning to reductive modes of testing and evaluation.
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