I've come across many great blogs and resources, and I add many of their links to my own blog. However, this blog puts anything and everything literacy based all in the one place!
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Monday, 18 July 2011
I Love Teaching Conference
Alison Mooney - interesting to have four personality types, but all equally important. I think I'm a bit of a mixture but mostly "a peaceful." My character traits are easygoing, diplomatic and patient. I am a balanced, calming, levelheaded and approachable. I thought it was a great presentation and I spent most of the time thinking about the adults I know and fitting them into types, however it would be quite enlightening to fit my students into the types and come up with a plan to teach to those needs. We often talk about learning needs and character traits are just another way to look at it.
James Nottingham - P4C - Using picture books to get children to think and question more deeply. You don't have to come up with all the answers. There are a variety of benefits to why you might teach?/encourage? Philosophy in the classroom, the most relevant to me at the moment is getting participation and more focussed questioning from the children.
James Nottingham - Challenge, Wobble and Roll - This workshop brought up again, are we challenging/teaching our children or giving them the information for them to regurgitate. It made us all very aware that our perception, as teachers, is quite different from every other teacher. I need to have the children in the learning, or wobble, zone. That's the zone where the children are thinking "why can I not do it the way I know?" another interesting thought, that will be expanded upon tomorrow, is - be careful what you praise, it can get in the way of the learning zone. Isn't it interesting at Finland's educational success and yet they only have 18 hours teaching time a week. The difference - they use a model based on Vgotsky and we, in New Zealand use a model based on Piaget.
Websites:
Www.p4c.com
Www.Jamesnottingham.co.uk
James Nottingham - P4C - Using picture books to get children to think and question more deeply. You don't have to come up with all the answers. There are a variety of benefits to why you might teach?/encourage? Philosophy in the classroom, the most relevant to me at the moment is getting participation and more focussed questioning from the children.
James Nottingham - Challenge, Wobble and Roll - This workshop brought up again, are we challenging/teaching our children or giving them the information for them to regurgitate. It made us all very aware that our perception, as teachers, is quite different from every other teacher. I need to have the children in the learning, or wobble, zone. That's the zone where the children are thinking "why can I not do it the way I know?" another interesting thought, that will be expanded upon tomorrow, is - be careful what you praise, it can get in the way of the learning zone. Isn't it interesting at Finland's educational success and yet they only have 18 hours teaching time a week. The difference - they use a model based on Vgotsky and we, in New Zealand use a model based on Piaget.
Websites:
Www.p4c.com
Www.Jamesnottingham.co.uk
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Handwriting
http://www.thespec.com/living/healthfitness/article/552797--the-perks-of-handwriting
A very interesting article on handwriting. It has certainly changed my mind about how I teach handwriting because I was starting to go down the path of "once children can write the letter why bother to keep teaching them because people are writing less and less."
A very interesting article on handwriting. It has certainly changed my mind about how I teach handwriting because I was starting to go down the path of "once children can write the letter why bother to keep teaching them because people are writing less and less."
Monday, 20 June 2011
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