Thursday, July 9, 2020
Scratch and the Maths challenge
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My daughters do a maths challenge each week at their primary school. I didn't pay much attention to it until my youngest was worried th...
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Assigning classes to teachers and Performance Development/Management
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One of the roles of a HOLA is to assign classes to teachers each year. Constraints limit putting the strongest teacher with the optimum cla...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Why the Classpad was a monumental mistake.
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When the Classpad replaced graphics calculators, the thought was that it would drive a new level of applied mathematics, removing from stude...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Course Counselling and Mathematics
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The current Mathematics course is not my favourite of the past few editions. It has four main courses: - Foundations (for students that r...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Relooking at education and the society in which we live.
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Today we have this odd situation. We are weighing up the needs of a child to be educated vs their wellness. The proposition is that kids...
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Collegiality, Resource Sharing and Collaboration.
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It was posed to me that by not insisting that staff share resources that I was not effectively leading my team. I refuse to insist that a...
Friday, April 17, 2020
Remediation of NCCD students in Mathematics
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Students marked at risk on the NCCD list are the forgotten students in Mathematics today. Typically students on the NCCD list have an imput...
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Adjusting to online delivery
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Delivering online is an interesting beast. For a short period most teachers can deliver content that students can do based on what they hav...
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