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Slow Learning: October 2009

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Saturday, 31 October 2009. On line courses at Yale. Occassionally I remember to check out on line courses which I think are great. Yale courses can be linked at On line courses at Yale. For example the history department. Check it out from your kitchen table. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I've been teaching for a long time.

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Slow Learning: June 2010

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Saturday, 26 June 2010. Amelia Hill writes in The Guardian. About new research into teenage brains which has found that they're less developed than was previously thought. Teenagers may look like adults but their brain structure is similar to that of much younger children, and brains continue developing well into adulthood. Links to this post.

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Slow Learning: Chalk is much more interactive than an interactive whiteboard

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Sunday, 31 October 2010. Chalk is much more interactive than an interactive whiteboard. The star of the show was Ewan McIntosh. An expert in digital media from Edinburgh, who covered a wall with chalk notes and doodles. It's not all as it seems. Labels: teaching and learning. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I've been teaching for a long time. The La...

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Slow Learning: September 2011

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Monday, 26 September 2011. Debriefing questions for lesson professional development. Last week I worked with three teachers to explore a professional learning model using a truncated version of lesson study. The model is called a triad, even though it's a quartet if you include me as facilitator. Below is a list of our debriefing questions. Email Subscr...

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Slow Learning: Building reading stamina

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Thursday, 13 August 2009. This year reading is really boring. Everytime we finish a chapter the teacher gives us a sheet with questions that we have to answer. Last year reading was fun, we made up our own questions and talked in groups about the text.". In Voices From the Middle. Sometimes the teacher might run a guided reading group during this time.

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Slow Learning: Beautiful writing according to Kate Jennings

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Tuesday, 7 July 2009. Beautiful writing according to Kate Jennings. In her Australian Quarterly essay. Incoporates an extract of 'beautiful writing' from a piece for The New Review of Books by Mark Danner Obama and Sweet Potato Pie. And "you got that right! From the crowd, "and it hurts and hurts, how can you keep doing it? Then, after a beat, amid even...

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Slow Learning: On line courses at Yale

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Saturday, 31 October 2009. On line courses at Yale. Occassionally I remember to check out on line courses which I think are great. Yale courses can be linked at On line courses at Yale. For example the history department. Check it out from your kitchen table. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I've been teaching for a long time. View my complete profile.

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Slow Learning: May 2011

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Saturday, 28 May 2011. Literacy Coordinator's role at a P-12school. This afternoon I wrote some notes on my work as Literacy Coordinator at a regional P-12 school and thought there seems to be a lot of things the job requires me to do. In the interests of sharing the information I've listed the role below. Promote and model best teaching. Provide Profes...

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Slow Learning: Learning slowly according to Manfred Spitzer

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Thursday, 12 November 2009. Learning slowly according to Manfred Spitzer. Spitzer is a psychiatrist in Germany, so it is not surprising that he has a chapter entitled “The Disordered Mind” in which he discusses autism and oppression. Most of his conclusions are on the best way to raise children, making this book less applicable to the ad...Results of te...

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Slow Learning: October 2011

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In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole." Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid. Saturday, 15 October 2011. Steve Jobs: calligraphy and connecting the dots. Listening to a replay of Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford University. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I've been teaching for a long time. View my complete profile. Email Subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz. Subscribe To Slow Learning Blog. Simple templa...