A key challenge as a leader is to develop a high-functioning team. Twelve months ago my challenge was to create a new teaching team for a newly created department comprising…
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Madeleine Brookes Posts
One of our big success stories this year has been the turnaround of our IBDP High Level Business Management results. At the beginning of the year, our data showed that…
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Currently I am in the process of applying for a position in State Education in Queensland. As part of the journey and to prepare for my interview, I am revisiting…
Read More Why Blog? The WHY and the HOW in a High School Setting
There are many models for change; however, Owston’s paper is one that I keep revisiting and sharing. A few years ago @sbradshaw and I presented this model through the lens…
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Background The Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) defines self-directed learning as ‘teaching students how to learn for themselves . . . [where] learners take responsibility to set goals, access resources…
Read More Case Study Proposal: The Affordances of Digital Tools for the Self-Directed Learner
I am presenting a case study for my final assignment in my final subject in my MEd KNDI where I will be examining the extent to which our students entering…
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I’m on my last subject in my MEd Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation at Charles Sturt University. This week in the readings, the online discussions and the colloquium with Bruce…
Read More Making sense: digging deeper, classifying & visualising
Lots more walking up to temples and down into valleys and then back up again. Thank goodness for leg support socks, a knee sock and a big stick – protecting…
The signposting is not great and we’ve got seriously lost in the past couple of days. Yesterday we decided to take a more obscure route over a mountain instead of…
I have to say that had I known what was in front of me, I would never have done these two days! To get from 11 to 12 was about…