IB DP History Workshop, Day 1
Three day IB DP History workshop, Category 3, Day 1. Melbourne. 02/05/15 – 04/05/15. Workshop leaders: Colin Aitken and Jenny McArthur Group page on Google+ (closed, invitation only) Notes for Day 1,...
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IB DP History Workshop, Day 2
Three day IB DP History workshop, Category 3, Day 2 Melbourne. 02/05/15 – 04/05/15. Workshop leaders: Colin Aitken and Jenny McArthur Group page on Google+ (closed, invitation only) Notes for Day 1,...
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IB DP History Workshop, Day 3
Three day IB DP History workshop, Category 3, Day 3 Melbourne. 02/05/15 – 04/05/15. Workshop leaders: Colin Aitken and Jenny McArthur Group page on Google+ (closed, invitation only) Notes for Day 1,...
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IB DP History Workshop Melbourne: the New Guide 2017
From the 2nd of May to the 4th of May 2015, I attended a three day IB DP History workshop in Melbourne. It was a very busy and well attended event, with over 300 hundred participants in total and 35...
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My view of History
I wrote the following for our Middle School Newsletter: As a History teacher, I am always interested to hear about the different experiences people have with studying History. During parent-teacher...
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SAMR, TPACK and the EduTech Quintet, with Ruben Puentedura
On Friday the 15th of May, I attended a full day workshop with Ruben Puentedura, the man behind the SAMR model. All his slides can be found here. Edtech Quintet is model for selecting technologies....
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Dylan Wiliam on assessment
On the 29th of May we had a professional development day with Dylan Wiliam. He spoke to us about what works and what doesn’t work in education. Below are 6 key points about how to improve teaching and...
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At the start of this term, my school invited Waleed Aly to speak to us. He’s an academic, writer and TV personality who is very good at making people think. He spoke to us about globalisation, but also...
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Hivemind reading; a different way to share texts
Thanks to my students and our REE teacher, I have learnt about a different strategy to read a large text with a group. I have called it “hive mind reading”. One of my students suggested this technique...
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A marking retreat
We all have those times in the term where the marking starts stacking up, either because of badly timed assignments, imminent reports or extra tasks like the IB Internal Assessments or Extended Essays...
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Differentiation
Despite the efforts of the Individual Needs Department at my school, I still usually see Differentiation as a difficult to incorporate add-on. I’ve been looking into the work of Carol Tomlinson and she...
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What is ‘understanding’?
I was tweaking our Year 10 unit (Geographies of Human Wellbeing) using the KUD criteria (Know, Understand, Do). This scaffold, created by differentiation guru Carol Tomlinson, has been around for a...
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The forgetting curve: Interleaving vs Blocking
The audience for this post is my students. I have written it so I can give this to them on the first day. I might also make a PPT for this which includes the videos. Learning how to learn You’ve been...
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Cultures of Thinking PD program, with Ron Ritchhart
I have become part of a semester long professional development project called “Cultures of Thinking”. It is lead by Visible Thinking and Harvard Project Zero researcher Ron Ritchhart. It focusses on...
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Coping or staying organised
I listened to a great podcast about organising yourself: Note to Self, A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Getting Organized. It’s only 16 minutes long and it’s a must-listen for any busy person. I have tried...
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My trip to India Pivot PL Cultures of Thinking Visible Classroom Jenny Gore, Quality Teaching Rounds / Instructional Rounds
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The Quality Teaching Model, Jenny Gore
Today Professor Jenny Gore came to our school to teach us about the Quality Teacher Model she has developed. The QT model emphasises “the importance of a strong pedagogical framework and adherence to...
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IB History IA workshop, Day 1
These are my notes from a three day workshop for the IB History IA (New course), held at Wesley College Melbourne, on June 25, 26, 27, 2016. Day 1, Session 1: Introduction and overview And we’re off!...
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IB History IA workshop, Day 2
Work in progress! These are my notes from a three day workshop for the IB History IA (New course), held at Wesley College Melbourne, on June 25, 26, 27, 2016. My notes for Day 2 will be shorter because...
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IB History IA workshop, Day 3
Work in progress! These are my notes from a three day workshop for the IB History IA (New course), held at Wesley College Melbourne, on June 25, 26, 27, 2016. Day 3, Session 9, Designing an effective...
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