Genius Hour – Mr van W's Class

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Genius Hour in our Flipped Classroom: First impressions

May 4, 2017 — 3 Comments

TTT Episode 64: Marking and Reporting Techniques to Foster an Emphasis on Growth
In a effort to avoid writing report John (@jfcatto) relates some different teachers ideas on how to encourage students to learn from their mistakes in when returning exams. He also links this to an article on how to write a clutter free marking rubric. Pete (@mr_van_w) drinks the Cult-of-Dweck kool-aid and tells the story of a school who use "report ass […]
TTT Episode 63: Indigenous Language and Steps to "Like" a Class
In the middle of a busy term John (@jfcatto) and Pete (@mr_van_w) manage to squeeze in a quick podcast with crappy sound quality. Pete lauds Central West teacher Aaron Ellis for teaching Wiradjuri as the compulsory Year 7 and 8 language at Young High School. John explains clear steps to "like a class". Perhaps highlighting some useful steps even […]
TTT Episode 62: Building a School/Teacher Culture That is Both Positive and Achievable.
This week Pete (@mr_van_w) and John (@jfcatto) find some synergy in their holistic digital projections. Embracing the uber-efficient strategic programming of a blended asset matrix approach to "blue-sky" policy processing. It's king of our brand. They also talk about the culture of teacher "wellbeing"; both within a personal and scho […]
TTT Episode 61: Literacy and Numeracy All for Infants and the Downsides to Teaching to the Test
This week Pete (@mr_van_w) talks about Malcolm Roberts' idea to restrict K-3 teaching to cover only Literacy/English and Maths/Numeracy. By his reasoning, these concepts are mostly interchangable and isolated to any context. Pete has other thoughts. John (@jfcatto) looks at the difference between item teaching and curriculum teaching. Apparently one i […]