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Some interesting thoughts about teachers and change.

A good website- biggest network of teachers in the world.

Is it a strategy? A skill? A tactic? Are they interchangable? There is an interesting discussion beginning after the blog too.

Thought this might be useful for Development teachers.

More on the quest for the balance between being supportive and helpful and backing off so students develop autonomy and perseverance in the messy work of learning.

I can almost hear the students saying "but where is the cause and effect marker????" (as neatly provided by making connections!)

Interesting TED Talk about how we don't need a teacher, but we need interest and collaboration to learn.

This prezi presentation explains more about the habits of mind and the journey that is often undertaken by teachers as they begin to focus on the HoM more explicitly and integrate them with content and thinking skills.

Some practical ideas about finding our 'blind spots' in the classroom. The comment section at the bottom is interesting too, especially the discussion of teacher/student responsibility...

DRAMA Teacher alert...actually potentially useful for all of us for bringing more drama into our classes. Under 'strategies', I thought the 'conscience alley' activity could be quite interesting.

We looked at some of Stephen Brookfield's techniques ADS/NZAS meetings. We have three of his books. This PDF has a good summary highlighting some of the classroom routines he suggests. I also have an ebook of the book these are taken from "The Skillful Teacher" if anyone is interested.

Some of these might be interesting to consider not only for ourselves but also if we want to come up with our own set of Habits of Mind which are most applicable to our students....resilience, grit, etc.

A good reminder.

Here's the article that was referred to in one of our meetings. Interestingly (at least to me) the writer (Alexis) was in one of the groups I coached online.

As you are preparing your IELTS specific skills and strategies, are you also preparing stress management techniques?

Opps...wrong group....then again, as teachers, are we not only preparing with skill area strategies but also reminding our students of stress managment techniques???

I finally got around to reading this, and even though it is short, it outlines what we do internally very well. In AES this last year, we constantly modeled the series of questions they mentioned, especially the consciousness, craftmanship, and flexibility questions. Students often want us to provide them with the answers to these questions, but do not readily realize that the question is the important part. If you can experience conflict, which I tend to label crisis because of the cognitive or cultural gap, by calling it into question, then you can see both the origin and yourself in it. I know this is simplistic, but the courage to question plays a major role in validating the crisis and your stake in it.

Discussion of the use of rubrics and the role of models. Wiggins argues these must be used hand in hand.