Over the past ten years I feel my practice as a teacher has changed beyond recognition. I have experimented, failed, tweaked, written, rephrased and reinvented nearly every aspect of my lessons with the goal of making the learning more effective for my students. Over the years I cannot point to one professional development event that … Continue reading Evolving Professional Learning
It that crazy time of the year, when we as a school begin pondering our goals for next year, whilst still trying to make progress on our ambitious plans from a year ago. It is also a landmark for me and the end of our 'iLearn project' which introduced the use of technology to our teachers … Continue reading Where to next..? Goal setting and the meaningful use of Technology.
Throughout my first year at United World College of South East Asia, I have been involved in leading our schools 21st century learning initiative iLearn. The goal of iLearn is to facilitate growth in teacher pedagogy, towards student learning that reflects best practice around creativity and innovation, collaborative learning, flexible progression, and critical thinking. Staff … Continue reading A Tech Mentors Retreat
I spent a big chunk of last week in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City attending the Apple Distinguished Educator workshop for 2011. Along with sixty other educators from around Asia we spent the week working on a variety of activities. We reflected on how we could be advocates, authors, ambassadors and advisers to other teachers, all … Continue reading In Saigon with Apple
Last weekend I was fortunate to attend this years edition of Apple's Education Summit, which was being held just down the road from me in Singapore. It was held at the Singapore School of the Arts on Orchard Road. The summit was a three day collection of keynote speakers and breakout workshops which obviously promoted … Continue reading Reflections on the Apple Education Summit – Singapore 2011
Last week I attended a workshop which ran a small demonstration about personal learning networks. Personal learning networks are a tool to help teachers think outside of the box and to gain new ideas about teaching and learning beyond the confines of their school. For more information have a read of this post by Kim … Continue reading Blogging about the 1:1 Classroom – Personal Learning Networks
This weekend I am at an IB Economics workshop discussing and dissecting the changes to the new curriculum, which will be implmented from the May 2013 exam session and onwards.. A shame is that the conference is in Singapore and a 10 minute taxi from my house. Gone are the days of workshops in exotic … Continue reading IB Economics – new curriculum – The changes to assessment
Late last week I attended the Singapore edition of the Apple Leadership Academy. It was a great chance to network again with colleagues from different international schools and to get a feel for where they are all heading in the future. With a turnout of over 100 delegates, from 25 schools in five countries Apple's … Continue reading Sustainable Professional Development – Apple Leadership Academy
I try not to republish things that I see and read on other peoples websites. Sometimes however the temptation is just too much, so I have borrowed a resource from the Lucacept Blog by Jenny Luca Below is an excellent animation that supports a presentation by Sir Ken Robinson. The presentation about Changing Education Paradigms … Continue reading Inspirational PD video – Sir Ken Robinson
Recently I attended a Breakfast Leadership workshop with an Apple Professional Educator Stephanie Hamilton. Her short presentation was about the importance on focusing on the learning occurring in schools and ensuring that technology is being used in an authentic way to transform the learning process. She had gathered many of her ideas from travelling around … Continue reading What are authentic, transformational eLearning tasks?
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