Aug 24
This afternoon, after lunch (and those who teach will tell you the vagaries of THAT particular time) we gathered about 25 school staff and students for a chat with an interesting guest speaker via Skype – Ira Socol. If you don’t know Ira I recommend you check his blog and/or connect with on Twitter – …
Aug 17
One of the best times I’ve had in my teaching career was starting and teaching a Philosophy & Ethics course at a high school – even though the course was choked off in the end, read all about it. I had taught and truly enjoyed teaching P&E not because I think students should know Aristotle …
Aug 05
Thumbs up … If you are sensitive to expletives, please stop reading now. It’s Friday and I need a stiff drink. I have just spent first week as Advisory Teacher at our Big Picture school. This is about as remote as it gets from the quiet of a desk at Moodle HQ. It is also …
Jul 26
I am starting a new category on Human. Big Picture. A great model of education. Motto of Big Picture: “one student at a time in a community of learners.” In a nutshell: students select an area of passion and interest and they ‘go deep’ over a term, looking at the interest from different perspectives and …
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