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Gettin’ Your Culture On(line)

By On November 9, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Class Blog, COETAIL, Curriculum, Ideas in Education, Literacy, Technology in the Classroom

I’ve always had an issue with the term international school. It’s probably due largely to the fact that working with lower elementary kids, the majority of my students have barely ever lived in their country. Still others have multiple nations that they’ve been told they come from.

Invariably, our schools have special days or units […]

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Making Time for Doing It

By On September 23, 2012 · 2 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education

Nearly every school year, somewhere early on, I end up doing some sort of informal survey, or engaging in a broad conversation with my students about different ways of learning. The learning strategies I touch on mostly draw from Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.

This year, just ankle-deep in our first unit of inquiry […]

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3 Inspirations for Designing Time

By On September 16, 2012 · 5 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Technology in the Classroom

Coming off the back of my research on the world of timetabling, I find this lingering question of what should be part of each and every day. I suppose when I ask this, I’m mostly asking about a school day, because those are the bulk […]

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