Month: April 2014

I think Ruth said it perfectly when she reflected at the end of the final F2F session that happened this past Friday, that it seemed like we were all just getting to know each other and then this Cohort thing is over. Perhaps it was because we all just went through something challenging together or […]

[youtube]http://youtu.be/0ERX3g7dYLw[/youtube] Initially, at the start of the year, I thought that I would focus on a “21st century novel study”. This is what I tweeted out on the 24th of January: And then I started to consider where the areas of strength and challenges were with my class’s study of The Book Thief: some aspects of […]

This article, about the assessment of deeper learning, helps to put a few key ideas into context that connect to my action plan. Namely… – Students benefit from having a say in how they are assessed – The right feedback at the right time is essential – Reflecting at the end of a learning experience […]