I am heading to Salzburg next week- looking forward to the Sound of Music tour!
Some thoughts about teaching, learning and literature from someone who is still pretty new at this...
Friday, May 22, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Good News Stories
I have been consumed with what is lacking in my new school, in this UK education system. I must remind myself to keep looking for the good learning and teaching moments, because they are there. This week, I will be getting my Year 7 classes to design their ideal school. We have been reading David Almond's novel, Skellig, in which the home-schooled Mina agrees with William Blake that schools are institutions which "drive[s] all joy away".
Hopefully, they will prove the poet wrong.
Hopefully, they will prove the poet wrong.
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