Archive for the ‘curriculum’ tag
My next big problem?
I’ve just been bookmarking a few links to diigo and delicious and written the following in the notes section about this post from Ewan:
My next big problem (wrong word?) is how to do this kind of stuff inside a school that’s moving very slowly or not at all in this direction. I’m all for being disruptive, but what happens to those students who get taught by me in a student-centered, project based way if they then move on to someone who has a more teacher centered approach the following year?
Once I’d posted I realised it sounded more like a blog post than notes for a bookmark, so I thought I’d add it here and ask for your thoughts. How do you square the circle of wanting to move to a more student centered / project based approach if the rest of school isn’t going that fast (or even in that direction?) What have you done? What have you chosen not to do? I think I need to kick this one around with a few people!
#TMCardiff – Handing over the curriculum, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love the chaos
My second presentation to the recent Cardiff Teachmeet was supposed to accompanied by the slides below, but for whatever reason the filter wouldn’t let Google Docs through, so I scribbled down what I could remember and just talked about some of the stuff that I’d been doing and why I thought it was important.
In hindsight it may have been a little more preachy and less practical than I hoped, but it seemed to go down ok.
I’ve embedded the version I delivered below – you’ll need to scroll to about 3 minutes in.
The slide deck that should have accompanied this talk is below. I make a couple of references to a couple of the diagrams as I go through.
