Teaching – Page 54

Filling in the gaps – learning from the greats

Kristian Still 16 Sep ’17 29 Oct ’22

This week my commute was been filled with two leadership podcasts (and the Tes Podagogy podcast with Dylan Wiliams). Two podcasts from two nonagenarian leaders with a combined 183 years life experience, over at Finding Mastery. Both John Nordstrom and …

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Week 2 with Canvas

Kristian Still 13 Sep ’17 16 Sep ’17

This week I attended our staff CPD session, hosted in a blended environment. Most of our teachers were present, some are part time. Hence a session available via Canvas is just the ticket. The instructor delivered a short and …

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Week 1 with Canvas

Kristian Still 10 Sep ’17 10 Sep ’17

It has been a relatively positive pre-teaching week as far as Canvas is concerned. Beyond making the course look attractive, it is about thinking, learning, and the learning with can orchestrate for our students. I have tended to readily design …

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Always learning – tips

Kristian Still 25 Aug ’17 29 Oct ’22

Post exams, the final weeks of August sees the annual “welcome to the profession” and “best advice” posts and tweets. I often share the “#movemeon” publication – a collection of crowd sourced and curated suggestions covering (activities, behaviour, classroom management, …

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Learning Outcomes

Kristian Still 10 Aug ’17 11 Aug ’17

Look, there are numerous reflective educators out there with an opinion on the importance of, and use of learning outcomes/aims/objectives. These range from dismissive to advocacy. For the record, I do think that clearly defined destinations promote students engagement, as …

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Canvas-ing design ideas

Kristian Still 10 Aug ’17 30 Aug ’18

I’ve said it more than once, RSS (and here) is a fantastic and much under-utilised recourse. Feedly, my agregator of choice. This week, on the back of the InstructureCon (Canvas conference), the Canvas blog signposted three Canvas Network’s Educator courses. …

Stumbling to success

Kristian Still 1 Aug ’17 29 Oct ’22

Winston Churchill once said ‘success is stumbling from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.’
If you are not prepared to risk failure, and not resilient enough to cope with it, you will not achieve success
Dr Jill Berry

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Teams – Project Aristotle

Kristian Still 29 Jul ’17 29 Jul ’17

Leadership literature is littered with models, lists and quick fixes. I understand that we, the consumers/leaders, seek assurances to guide our own practice however distilling leadership in this manner seem wholly inadequate to me. That said, this morning, I followed …