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Teaching in the Sandbox
Imagine if learners were given the freedom to explore, interact with and even modify their learning.
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- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast (Episode 3) Interview with Teachers Trove
I chat with Atama Cassidy (of Teachers Trove) about how to be culturally responsive and know your learners and their whanau.
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- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast (Episode 2) - Interview with Maddy Casey-Ashton
I chat with Maddy Casey-Ashton (Learning Coach at Hobsonville Point Secondary School) about collaboration and cross-curricular course design
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- Apr 6, 2020
- 4 min
Agency at home: Why Tiger King isn’t what’s stopping you from working.
We have ability to remove obstructions and create the conditions for work, that’s where our agency lies.
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- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast (Episode 1) - Interview with Jeremy Downing
I chat with Jeremy Downing (Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ) about systemic inequity and changing the education landscape in Aotearoa.
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- Mar 14, 2020
- 4 min
5 lessons in the midst of COVID-19 – A teacher’s perspective
If they receive nothing else from us, let our students hear the message that they are loved and have the capacity to love.
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- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
Students: Consumers or Creators?
What we need are critical consumers and impassioned creators.
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- Dec 13, 2019
- 4 min
Reflecting our students – The need to hold up the Mirror
We espouse that we don’t want students learning in a framework defined by individualism and competition, so let’s stop teaching in one.
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- Nov 16, 2019
- 5 min
What you say matters – exposing rhetoric and the rise of TeacherSpeak
We need to find a way to reclaim TeacherSpeak and reframe jargon through both critique and the discovery of meaning.
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- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
Defining Identity: moving beyond Us and Them
The educator’s role, like the political leaders, is to somehow unite disparate identities under a common vision.
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- Sep 21, 2019
- 4 min
Teaching as a moral craft – The hand, head and heart.
All of the strategies in the world are useless if you do not truly know the young people whose learning you have been entrusted with.
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- Sep 12, 2019
- 3 min
Bringing your kete to the classroom – A case for authentic teaching
My challenge to fellow teachers is to be who you are, to share your passions and to bring your kete ready to share.
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