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This week is assignment week. One of the assignments I need to complete is for the course ICTs for Learning Design. This final assignment requires us to design a unit of work (a sequence of learning experiences) for a particular subject that makes effective use of eLearning. The following is the first step in this process....more...
Just after 9:30pm last Wednesday I read an email from the Dean and Director of the ANU College of Business and Economics congratulating me on the fact that my thesis had been accepted without revision by the examiners and the institution. Needless to say that it was good news....more...
This post is a request for pointers to the examples of really innovative/effective/different high school classes in Information Technology (IT/IPT) or Computer Science (CS). Even with just 10 days of prac teaching within a school setting, I can recognise the rationale and constraints that contribute to the use of the apparently typical curriculum. I would, however, like to break that mould and do something different. I'm assuming/hoping that I'm not the first and would like to benefit from the experience and ideas of others....more...
So next week sees me actively engage in a bit of teaching through leading small episodes that form part of my mentor teachers' existing plans. In another week or two that will expand into complete lessons. One of the interesting parts of this activity has been the necessity to fit within the existing plans and approaches used by my mentor teachers. Approaches that I wouldn't necessarily have thought of and which place some constraints on what I can do....more...
The following post brings together two recent events in my life into an attempt at a WCYDWT question for mathematics. It's not a perfect fit for WCWYDT, but close....more...
My first two days of prac teaching last week included three mathematics classes. In two of the classes I heard students ask the teacher, "Sir, when are we going to use this? Why are we studying it?". The other mathematics class was grade 12, obviously they benefited from their longer experience and were more pragmatic when they asked, "Will this be on the test?". Since that time I've been wondering how I might answer this question when it is asked of me....more...
So, onto behaviour management and this week, Challenging Behaviours....more...