Archive for September 2008
Life without computers..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 30, 2008
We’re moving into a new school soon and all our computers are down for the next two to three weeks. Even email is off (so if you try to contact me, the best way will be through this blog !).
I’ve found this very strange. It’s not until you are in this situation that you realise [...]
Thinking about change again…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 29, 2008
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about change recently – Stephen Heppell’ s quote about us witnessing the death of education but the beginning of learning really struck a chord with me, particularly with the work I’m currently doing. I’ve written in TESS before about this whole challenge of change issue..
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2333023
SLF08 last week gave me [...]
GLOW gets its own page
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 27, 2008
I’ve collected all my GLOW stuff onto one page in response to many requests for information on what I’m doing. The new page…
http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/my-glow-page/
…is a collection of my posts on GLOW-related stuff, starting from the earliest this year. I have made a brief comment as to the content underneath each link to help with searching.
I hope [...]
Self-evaluation – an update
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 26, 2008
This is an update to my post on the self-evaluation web application and the new HMIE inspection process.
Regular Self-evaluation embedded into the routine of a school will almost certainly lead to a growing culture of reflection and this can only be good for classroom practice but to start with, if a system such as this could be implemented [...]
Self-evaluation and a cuddlier friendlier HMIe ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 25, 2008
- In: ICT| Inspection| Quality assurance| smt
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I suppose everyone is going to be blogging about SLF08, and rightly so. What a fantastic event this year’s has turned out to be. I’m going to be writing a little (!) about my thoughts over the next week or so but I’m going to start with something I took time to check out this [...]
The greatest barrier to learning is…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 23, 2008
- In: AiFL| GLOW| ICT| Leadership| teaching and learning
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….the talking teacher.
I’ve heard this before, but it was brought sharply back into focus for me recently by some of my S4 students. They were working in small groups, having been told they were going to face the dreaded end-of topic test (I really hate these !) I couldn’t bring myself to let them sit it, [...]
What does it actually do?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 13, 2008
I’m in the middle of assignment-writing for a management and leadership PgDip programme at the moment and, just as I advise my own students to do, I’m taking plenty of ‘reward’ breaks as I work. One of them became more of a ‘Busgirl’s teabreak’ as I switched on the telly and found an episode of [...]
The GLOWING lounge at SLF08
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 11, 2008
I think one of the highlights for me at SLF this year will be the ‘Glowing Lounge’. It’s going to be a fantastic place for networking with other practitioners and discussing experiences and ideas. I’m presenting a couple of spots there myself on using GLOW groups to raise attainment, but I’m really looking forward to watching [...]
Big lottery – Big plans
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 9, 2008
..just had word that my recent big lottery fund bid has been successful – it means I can now go ahead and buy 10 mini notebooks and 10 Nintendo DS consoles with brain-training software for some out-of-hours school projects we want to run during this session using on-line science based games and DS maths and [...]
At last – physics made fun !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 6, 2008
Apologies to all my physics colleagues, but this Hadron Collider stuff is doing my box in – seriously. If another student asks me if the world’s going to end on Wednesday when this thing gets switched on then for that particular pupil, it just might…
But then I came across this youtube video and for a [...]
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