How To Use An Apostrophe – The Oatmeal
How To Use An Apostrophe – The Oatmeal. Just a sample from part of the poster above! This is a wonderfully random poster: wonder if we could copies for every classroom!
Category: Links
links for 2011-06-12
NSW Secondary mathematics teachers battered by a ‘perfect storm’ « 21st Century Learning I need to read this with some care because of the comments about the teaming of literacy and numeracy. Might link...
SMH Letters: responding to Hattie
Oh God, the teachers in these letters (The Sydney Morning Herald SmartEdition) just prove Hattie’s thesis! and the lay people show why we are always pushing shit uphill. I read with interest Professor...
Ben Johnson’s Birthday
Garrison Keillor posted this on Writer’s Almanac, which is a great tribute: Hymn to the Belly by Ben Jonson ROOM! room! make room for the bouncing Belly, First father of sauce and deviser of jelly;...
More ACARA consultation
There are times when I wonder who at ACARA is listening: I suppose we’ll find out when the Arts business is settled. Online consultation opportunity – General capabilities There are seven general capabilities...
John Hattie on the role of the teacher
As usual, John Hattie’s advice is sage and – most importantly – research based. Mind you, Steve Dinham has had something to say recently about the balance with direct teaching. Better find Joh’s latest...
My Top 30 Albums
Trying to find my Top 30 albums of the last 25 years. Dang, not so easy. That makes the cut-off, well … bugger it, let’s make it 1985. So what do I think, in...
Q’s Top 30 Albums of the past 25 years
What is really depressing is not how few I own, but how few I’ve even heard of! The one’s I own are bolded. There is a price to age and wisdom. Why do I...
What might have been” RIP Bobby Kennedy
Another anniversary: I remember the day so well. What a different world we might have had with some real leadership. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and...
At last, a really good reading list!
Yes, I know that it is all wrong for my Year Nines, but most of these are great. But who the hell is Jacqueline Wilson? The Big Read: BBC Top 200 Book Read May...