Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
From my time lecturing maths education students at La Trobe University I was able to reflect on my current teaching practice and build around this to create a unit of work that best exemplifies my teaching approach. This can be viewed at http://mathsatcoburgshs.blogspot.com/ .
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Met with Jennifer Bowden and Simon Pryor from the MAV to begin organising their Primary Schools Big Day Out at CSHS for Term 2. As far as I can gather this will be like a mini MAV Conference for Primary School Teachers.
Discussions were encouraging not just for the MAV but ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Ways I have used Studywiz in Maths Education have varied from delivering activities (Resources)
which are organised according to classes.
to using online discussions
where students can collaborate online and have their contributions monitored. Students also communicate in other ways like messaging
sharing podcasts
or blogging.
that can be commented on as a way of ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Today Gaye Williams came in to discuss her thoughts and ideas on Problem Based Learning. This meeting was also with Ian owe as part of our Maths Project (PLAT). This session began with Gaye observing one of my General Maths classes. I had planned this session as an introduction to ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Keynote: Maria James VCAA
In this presentation Maria mainly discussed he review process for the new Physics Study Design. This was only a minor review as it was discussed that with the possibility of a new national science curriculum by 2011 that the study design as it exists may not be ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Between January 6 and 16 this year I attended the Maths Summer School. A Federal Government Initiative aimed at improving numeracy/ mathematical ability of students Australia wide.
This particular Summer School was hosted by The University of New England in Armidale, NSW (about an hours flight northwest of Sydney in one ...
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