In his article for On the Horizon back in 2001, Marc Prensky coined the terms digital native and digital immigrant. Prensky refers to our students
Month: November 2014
Avoid a toxic school culture by being a Mythbuster
Toxic school cultures thrive on the rumour mill. Often we can find groups of teachers being negative about aspects of our respective schools that
If you want educational change to stick, give it time
This week my school will be launching its public portal, which gives parents and students greater access to information about learning in our school.
Where is your teaching and learning focus? Is it time for an audit?
Every once in a while it is good to check-in with where our school’s are at in terms of their teaching and learning focus. Investing
5 attributes of good decision-makers in schools
School leaders are faced with making many decisions each day. From time to time these decisions may not be popular with everyone. Unfortunately, there
Re-thinking classroom questioning to improve student understanding
From my experience of observing lessons for a number of years in secondary schools, the area where I think teachers can make the biggest improvement