Posts Tagged ‘security’
Blog for iplittle on December 9th, 2008
The London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Law is looking to appoint a Professor of International Law to replace Christopher Greenwood, who was recently elected to the International Court of Justice. Here’s the advertisement:The Department of Law, a world-leading centre for research and teaching in legal studies and interdisciplinary approaches to law, seeks to appoint a new Professor of International Law, to fill the vacancy left by Professor Christopher Greenwood’s appo
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Job Opening: LSE (Professor)
admin on December 8th, 2008
Mrs McCulloch thankyou for teaching us all the chinese farewell and good luck at the new school. GOODBYE!!!
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Goodbye Mrs McCulloch
Blog for iplittle on December 8th, 2008
The Present Background to VLEs and e-Portfolios in education: There are presently at least 35 different VLEs available to schools and LAs, many of which have some form of e-Portfolio embedded within them. It is recognised that these e-Portfolio systems do make a valuable contribution to a child’s planning, collaboration and reflection. However, all of these educational benefits can usually be attained through the school’s Learning Platform
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eFolio – a universal solution?
Blog for iplittle on December 8th, 2008
While the news coverage of Jim Rose’s interim report on the Primary Curriculum has inevitably emphasised the ‘loss’ of curriculum subject titles, it is a great boost to the status of both discrete and integrated ICT in the curriculum. While his main emphasis is on children being better prepared for life outside school and to deepen understanding: “Good primary teaching deepens and widens children’s understanding by firing their imagination and interest in learning.” he puts ICT squarely at t
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ICT comes up smelling like Roses
ISA on December 8th, 2008
Spend too much of your teaching time tracking test scores and not enough actually instructing students who need the extra help? It’s not an uncommon complaint among district administrators and teachers up against the No Child Left Behind phalanx of testing and reporting requirements
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Test and Track
ISA on December 6th, 2008
I’ve recently received emails from teachers who have had pre-literate (coming from a culture that does not have a written language, or that has only very recently developed one) or illiterate (coming from a culture that does have a written language, but the student cannot read it) students recently join their classes. The teachers have asked me for suggestions for how they can work with these new arrivals effectively
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The Best Online Resources For Teachers of Pre-Literate ELL’s
admin on December 6th, 2008
The Civil War In Four Minutes is a very visually effective supplement to teaching and learning about the United States Civil War. It would be especially accessible to English Language Learners following some initial background on the conflict. I’ve placed the link on my United States History Class blog in the post titled….Civil War
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The Civil War In Four Minutes
admin on December 5th, 2008
Well, seems like everyone has something to say about Michelle Rhee these days, here’s Dean Shareski, there goes Doug Noon, and Chris Lehmann has some nice things to add. We even have some pushback from Dan Meyer.
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Let the Reprogramming Commence!
admin on December 5th, 2008
The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimension – Ralph Waldo Emmerson I have been grinding the glacier over some issues around my instructional practices. I left a private school system for the public system because I felt like I was teaching in a box. A box that was becoming smaller and tighter each year. I was the outfielder standing alone in left field waiting for someone to throw a new ball my way: differentiated lessons, co-operative learning, professiona
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Reflections on Instructional Methods
ISA on December 4th, 2008
December 5, 2008 Uncategorized Just learnt about the case about Julie Amero, (wiki-link) which was pretty shocking to me. A Connecticut middle school teacher, Julie Amero, was substituting for another teacher
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What should we learn from the Julie Amero Tragedy
