Thoughts on 21st Century Teaching and Learning
I’ve been hung up on an idea. I’m hoping to see how we support teacher’s professional growth at our school change. I’m driven to see them creating and maintaining a professional eportfolio of their work. I see that eportfolio functioning as evidence of achieving their professional goals for evaluation and supervision, but more importantly as evidence of […]
The funny thing about momentum is that it works in the opposite way, too. Objects at rest, etc. So much has happened since the beginning of this school year, it’s hard to know where to begin. So why not start at the beginning. New Teacher Orientation This year was my first real opportunity to […]
Day 2 of our Collaborative Learning Plan, which, if you didn’t attend the AASSA Looking for Learning pre-conference would be Day 1, but anyway.. (here’s a look at my Day 1, pre-conference reflection) I just couldn’t keep up. I had committed myself to read and respond to all of our team’s reflections and as many […]
Wrapping up the first day of our Collaborative Learning Plan. Here are some quick thoughts. It’s taken quite a bit of my attention to follow the group attending the conference today. Not sure if it is realistic for other teachers at AC to do the same while they are in the middle of their […]
I’m so excited to see how this project goes. Our school is preparing for a group of teachers to head off on a learning expedition. They’re off to Lima to participate in the AASSA Educators Conference 2016, Looking for Learning. I’m staying here. My goal next week is to help be the conduit for which […]
Though it’s been a few weeks since our workshop with Silvia Tolisano, the ideas she shared are still ringing in my ears. While I felt I had an understanding of many of the things she discussed, I realize now how much I didn’t yet understand, and how her framing of a number of ideas clarified a […]
Last week, I was lucky enough to spend some time with Silvia Tolisano. She delivered a half day workshop for a small group of teachers at our school. While I do have some critiques of the format of the workshop – all lecture, with no “doing” component- I still found the message and the ideas she […]
I’ve been promising myself I’d start this blog for years, and am finally deciding to make it so. A few things are prompting this… I’m a year and a half into my position as the Director of Technology at an amazing international school in Quito, Ecuador. I had intended this be something I do from […]