Posts by Cecelia
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The whole point of learning styles is that some people learn well in groups and some by themselves or with one friend.
My sons always moaned about group work at Waikato because as reasonably responsible types they often had to keep a group going and then the slackers got rewarded too.
OTOH I remember one son buzzing about a law project he completed with a friend in some sort of mock court case.
There's a time and place. As a secondary teacher now sort of retired I loved seeing kids work in groups but shuddered at the down time and was spectacularly bad at sorting out their personality clashes. I guess it's a bit different in primary schools.
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Doubt it? Ask Susan Boyle.
I'd want my little Susie to read and write and do maths too. Can all that be taught in group projects?
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The pamphlet is blah - below is a link to a reading standard
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Reading-and-writing-standards/LayoutI linked to this (below) in another thread - John Hattie's view of the stds - I apologise if someone has already linked ...
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TKI - formative assessment (assessment for learning) is nurturing the kumara. Summative assessment (tests and rankings etc) is measuring the kumara.
Formative assessment was sooo in a few years ago. ERO etc. What happened?
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Going back to schools, national standards - precisely because they are so easy to measure
Who is going to check that they are measured properly? I had a quick look at a couple of reading standards and thought they looked quite good but you can bet that teachers will have different interpretations of them.
In my old town one of the schools reported 100% in Level 1 literacy some years ago. How can that be? I'm not accusing it of being a Cambridge but there are ways and means of measuring and presenting. Schools will be desperate to present themselves well.
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no assistance from the MoE at all, despite being promised both a facilitator and an itinerant
My sympathy. I was a secondary school teacher until recently and was appalled at the way RTLBs and others had to fight for funding for certain students and programmes.
This is where money should be invested ...
If a child is given a teacher aide, there is a second adult in the classroom. I noticed when I was relieving last year in year 8 that the teacher aide had become a trusted adult by all the children and the classroom was a friendly place to be in.
Primary school classrooms are probably not so isolated but the current model of one adult in the classroom and perhaps 30 manipulative teenagers is surely not set in stone.
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My (extended) holiday reading lust has been killed by Doctorov's City of God. Great book but either I don't have the brainpower and patience or I've read myself out. Back to the library it goes. I need a beguiling book to get me back on the reading bandwagon. Get me a science fiction maybe? Or perhaps I'll find Sydney Bridge Upside Down so lauded in The Listener.
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Sort of related to flags...
John Key told off the Harawiras and yet is seen being held tightly by Titewhai.
If there's any criticism of the govt he just goes into damage control and tweaks things.
He actually made quite a funny joke today when praised for his Te Reo. "Now I'm working on my English."
Hamlet says "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain—". But I don't think he is a villain.
I'm a metaphorical card carrying member of the Bleeding Heart Liberal Party but damn it, there's something likeable about Key. He's the typical boy who tried to please everyone but ...
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I get weekly email updates from the UK and everything!
I know what happens to Roseh. I had to know and looked up on Corrienet.
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(I *love* Amber)
ZOMG! I thought you guys were, like, too brainy for Coro??