What is this thing called education?
Monday 27 October 2014
The power of humility
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I had a class earlier this week that made me feel like I was a poor teacher. It was a class where the intended learning outcome changed du...
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Do you have the HOTS for science? Part 3
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Making change in teaching and assessment In my role as Year 11 curriculum leader this year, one of the projects I am involved in was an act...
Monday 13 October 2014
Science Pedagogy at my school
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I have been asked along with another colleague to develop a pedagogical model for science. This is a presentation that I am giving tomorro...
Tuesday 30 September 2014
Trying to get traction with my change project on HOTS
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I have found that in my action research for this project, that often times I am coming back to what feels like square one with my project, r...
Friday 26 September 2014
Do you have the HOTS for science? Part 2
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So what are higher order thinking skills? Defining higher order thinking skills in the context of science education was a relatively tricky...
Thursday 4 September 2014
Do you have the HOTS for science? Part 1
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Do your students have the higher order thinking skills required for success in science? What are such skills? Do you teach these sk...
Disequilibirum
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I was lucky enough to take some students from my school to our sister school to attend a regional constitutional convention today. The stud...
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