Archive for December 2011
If I were a schools’ inspector I would look for evidence of the following:
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 15, 2011
The teacher reflects on their teaching. The teacher has got their own Personal Learning Network and engages with it. The teacher tries to introduce some new initiave or strategy into their teaching every year, and then tries to evaluate its success or failure. The teacher encourages (constructive) feedback from all quarters. The teacher is not [...]
We are star-stuff: teaching about the elements
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 11, 2011
We had fun with these resources yesterday so I thought I would share them. First up, where did all the stuff that makes up you and me come from? Hold up your hand: You are looking at stardust made flesh. The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen that fills your [...]
Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
One poem that I particularly like (and have hanging outside the door of my lab) is “Naming of Parts” by Henry Reed; it contrasts a lesson in military weaoons with a flowering plant. My classroom looks out on a flower garden and I often think of this poem as I spot another student gazing wistfully [...]
The Two Cultures – why our schools are to blame
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, [...]
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