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One week with personalised learning

January 22, 2012 in learning

One week has passed with my class using Personal Journey’s, each one containing their very own personalised curriculum for the week ahead. Has the week been successful? Has learning improved? Well, one week is far too short to give detailed answers but I can say that personalising the curriculum for every child in my class has been an inspiring journey for me. I have watched in awe at children working their way through their learning, solving problems in pairs, discussing and thinking, coming up with solutions, offering suggestions and advice to their peers. It has confirmed my belief that if we give learners opportunities to follow a personalised approach they will fly.

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Tags: activities, classroom, discussion, ideas, inspiration, learning, literacy, mathematics, personalised, teaching
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Innovating learning requires innovating the classroom too

January 15, 2012 in learning, thoughts

I have always liked moving classroom furniture around, mixing up tables, moving bookshelves along with reorganising the learners in the room too. I usually do this at the start of every term as a way of shaking off the last term and starting afresh, a new perspective and for some, a new partner to work alongside. But recently I have realised that not much has actually changed, the classroom is basically still the same. The mode of learning has remained focused at designated tables. I decided that if I wanted to continue looking at innovating teaching and learning I also had to innovate my classroom too.

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Tags: classroom, creativity, discussion, ideas, innovation, inspiration, learning, organisation, sharing, teaching
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Hanging out on Google+

December 16, 2011 in Resources in the classroom

Classroom hangouts

Google+ has vamped up its Hangout feature so that you can share documents, presentations, a drawing board and, if needs must, block a user. These extra features are not part of the regular Hangout but can be accessed very easily before you initiate a hangout. I’m certain that these features will become standard and after using them with a wide variety of users I am certain that they will add impact to classroom teaching and learning.

My aim is to gather together educators and teachers from all over the world so that they can use Google Hangout in their classrooms. There are various uses such as

discussions based on country origin
worldwide discussions
debates
sharing ideas
one teacher teaching to 9 connected classes
collaborating on project based learning
finding out about another country
story telling
peer to peer learning opportunities

Google+ is not available to under 13′s but as an educator we have access to every available feature, so why not consider using it in your own classroom? If you want to get involved leave a comment, share the post with others or/and fill in the form.

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