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Bureaucracy Can Make Us Crazy!

Posted on20. Jul, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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A few months back I wrote my manifesto about National Testing, if you haven’t read the paper you can get it here.  At the time of writing that paper I was focused on the impact that national tests have on students and how we might be measuring only a little bit of student ability or [...]

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Education is more than about the tools

Posted on12. Jul, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Many education departments around the globe are rolling out or considering the roll out of some form of one-to-one computer program.  Some programs even have the students taking the laptop computer home. So with these programs in mind I read with interest this article on the NY Times website – Computers at Home: Educational Hope [...]

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The Other End of Continuum

Posted on07. Jul, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Last week I wrote this post about the fantastic possibilities of the Ipad.  Then this morning I was sent this video by David Linke – Thanks! As I mentioned yesterday many things are on a continuum.  This continuum doesn’t have to be negative and positive, just that there is a difference.  I certainly believe the [...]

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Confidence: The Multi-Layered Definition

Posted on06. Jul, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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For a very long time I have advocated the need to teach emotional and social literacy to students.  I have talked about having t0 fragment all human traits into small steps so they are understandable by students in our classrooms and are therefore teachable. In a recent corporate leadership seminar this specific topic of scaffolding [...]

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A Book Worth Your Time

Posted on04. Jul, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Over the past few years I have been presenting a 3-Day Women in Leadership workshop for the Centre for Strategic Education (CSE).  During the years of delivering the program I have come to meet some amazing female school leaders.  Each group of women that I have worked with has reminded me of the great resource [...]

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The iPad – Changing the Learning Game

Posted on27. Jun, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Steven Jobs has changed the landscape one more time (and I’m not talking about the iPhone – that’s one more to his never-ending list)! Could I be more pleased with the iPad? While it’s still missing a few things such as a camera and the ability to see flash video, all in all, it’s hot! [...]

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An IQ Awareness Activity for Middle & High School

Posted on22. Jun, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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This video can serve as a great introduction to awareness and how much we see or do not see in our environment.  Have students watch the video and use it as an opening to a discussion on awareness. You might link it to an activity in which they are asked to be aware of certain [...]

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Why Intervention?

Posted on21. Jun, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Why do we have so many intervention programs cropping up around the globe? Including the one I deliver. Intervention on rumors… intervention on isolation and bullying… intervention on taunting… intervention on internet harassment… intervention on ‘sexting’… Why are our students so dissatisfied that they are taking out their angst on other students? I believe it [...]

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Increasing Student Retention

Posted on12. Jun, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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If you’re as interested in learning as I am, I’m sure you have wondered about student retention.  Donald Clark wrote an excellent article on spaced practice as a prime method to increase retention anywhere from 200-700%. I’d like to further the list with 3 more ways to increase student retention as well as a giving [...]

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Treading on Dreams

Posted on10. Jun, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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This is the second TED talk I have seen by Sir Ken Robinson.  I won’t destroy this brilliant speaker by trying to summarise his points, I will let him speak for himself. Whilst watching Sir Ken I was reminded about one of my early years in the classroom.  I was teaching the 5th Grade at [...]

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