Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Where to now ?

On Monday a forum was held for all the state Educators. We heard about our uncertain future. Student outcomes have improved but the data collected cannot prove a direct causal link between this and the I & E initiative so will the government be prepared to fund us for another twelve months ????? No answer on this yet.
The Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) seems to be heavily influenced currently by the writings of Professor guy Claxton. His paper on Expanding the capacity to learn was widely discussed.
I attended a session by Gavin Grift , the Educator for the Mulberry Hill Cluster. One of the best things about these forums is the networking and sharing, seeing what other schools and clusters are doing is often inspiring and can be quite amazing. Gavin and other members of his cluster have designed a Planning Tool that is incredible. It has links to all the domains, standards, thinking tools, and strategies. It has been taken up by the Department and will soon on the website. As soon as it is I will link to it.

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