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I learnt something yesterday, from one of my students. Literature Circles are going reasonably well in their 2006 iteration, but I realise more strongly than ever that I have to teach the skills of group discussion of literature. So used as the stude…

For me reflecting on my practice is really important as a way of continually trying to improve my teaching, and so when I received this newsletter in my email inbox I was very interested. I thought I’d share with you and write a post about it as a wa…

I had such a good teaching day yesterday. One of the elements that made it great was putting into practice an idea I got from Germana, a friend/colleague I talked to at the

VATE review day

between sessions. We talked about how to make the study …

The year 12 students at my school are studying persuasive language techniques in preparation for their Responding to Media Texts SAC. I have heard a number of teachers say that teaching this section of the course is dry and boring, not only for the s…

Today I met with my supervisor for the Masters and we discussed the writing and reading that has led to reflections that I’ve been doing on my teaching in the light of the theory. I will be looking at my practice in the classroom in an alternative …

It’s the end of the holidays – how did that happen? And have I finished marking the Year 12 Writing Tasks and practice essays on Henry Lawson? No I have not. Have I marked the Year 8 assignments on Fly Away Home? No I have not. Do I need to give th…

The other Nancy MacKeand. She recieved 20 comments from teachers saying why: answers that ranged from giving students a ‘voice’ and an authentic audience for their writing, to the sharing of writing and the social aspect of blogging, the diverse array…

From Christine of the Alan November Learning community today comes a great set of reflection questions:

Reflections for bloggers…..

How has blogging changed the way you do things in the classroom?

In what ways has blogging enhance…

In January I wrote a post about our school’s English faculty reflection on the question: What are we doing when we’re teaching English. These are some of the words and ideas that we came up with. Our next step is to bring these ideas to life in t…

In my research for my Masters thesis I will be looking for “evidence of authentic language and learning” in the small group discussions of literature in my Year Nine English classroom. I looked at this in 2005 and will implement Literature Circles ag…

Last week Professor Laurel Richardson came to give a free public lecture at Melbourne University. I would have loved to have gone but I’d already been out two nights that week so I decided not to. Then I picked up her 1997 book
Fields of Play: Con…

In a demonstration of the collaborative nature of educators using technology to achieve something new, the Edtech Talk people Jeff and Dave facilitated what they called a “barnraising” to develop “A New Media Curriculum for Education” where �…

As I reflect on my teaching last year (or at least the circumstances of my teaching) I tell myself a story as a way to interpret what happened as a way of thinking about the best way to proceed this year. Here is the narrative plus some of my reflect…