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Evaluating Professional Learning Free
Evaluation of professional learning is an essential part of sustaining an effective learning and teaching cutlure. This page provides you with a tool for planning and evaluating professional development...
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Connect | Extend | Challenge
Connect | Extend | Challenge is one of Harvard's Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines. It is a straight-forward routine that helps people make connections between new ideas and their prior knowledge...
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K-W-L Chart
K-W-L charts are graphic organizers that help people organize information before, during, and after a piece of learning. They can be used to engage people in a new topic, activate prior knowledge, share...
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Social-Emotional Learning
Main message: Social-emotional learning is a key job for any schools. Unless we address the social and emotional needs of our learners we are limiting their learning potential. Key quote: “Schools no...
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Why | How | What of curriculum design Free
Professional inquiry Any of the following questions could act as provocations for staffroom discussion: What we teach our students and in what order is a challenge for all schools and educational jurisdictions...
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Top 10 Staffroom Discussions Free
Discussion and professional reflection are at the heart of lively staffrooms. This website opens up many current educational debates. This blog directs you to some of these. Homework - to be or not to...
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Tell your kids ... Free
Let us never forget why we came into education: to make a positive difference to the lives of young people. At the heart of all that we do is that individual child, with their hopes, aspirations, fears...
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Character Lab Free
What makes an education worthwhile? This question goes to the heart of our purpose as educators. It is a question I return to often in workshops with school leaders and teachers, since it is easy to get...
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Listly
Listly is a great online tool to curate, publish and share lists. It is a collaborative tool that can be used by students and teachers alike to share resources and ideas they have found. I use it during...
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April Update Free
Since January I have been working with IB Global to help them prepare for the launch of the new Standards and Practices (S&Ps) that come into effect next year (2020). My role as one of two lead developers...