Category: Classroom Practice
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A Framework to reflect on Honouring All Languages
A Framework This framework provides an entry point to discussing, sharing, and reflecting on practices that honour all languages in our classrooms and communities. Click on the interactive elements below to read some examples of practices that may be relevant to your community context. What practices might you add to these? How could you use…
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Fostering Mind-stretch to enable a Growth Mindset
Photo by Calder B on Unsplash Our mindsets – they guide us, shape our actions and inform our perspectives. They ‘set’ our way of thinking, being, engaging, and doing. They are powerful and dominating. So, how could we encourage less ‘set’ and more ‘stretch’, in ourselves, and in our learners? Actually, do we need to?…
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Noticing with Intention
Noticing. We do it endlessly, as we move around our daily lives we observe, we notice, we cast a fleeting thought towards something, and then, generally, we move on. These are small, fleeting, moments. More often than not we think we will remember what we noticed. We have the intention to hold onto our noticing…
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Adopting an Inquiry Stance in Honouring All Languages
Photo credit: danielle-macinnes-iulgi9pwetu-unsplash How can I get started? I had a lovely conversation with a fellow teacher recently. Someone who is passionate about honouring all languages in classrooms and communities. A teacher who works tirelessly to gather resources to be able to meet multilingual learners where they are, so they can best access all learning…
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Elevating Portfolio Practices to Honour Multilingual Learner Identities
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash I recently wrote about shifting our mindsets towards ‘honouring all languages’ in our learning spaces and communities. As with much that is connected to mindset this can be viewed on a continuum. Sometimes it requires small tweaks and finding ways to elevate current practices, other times it can result…
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Nurturing a Sustainable Culture of Active Thinking
As the school year launches, teachers prepare for their new and returning students, school leaders to welcome new and returning staff and the focus turns to designing ways in which learning communities can come together, develop and thrive. In my experience this often means that team building activities are dusted off and there is a…
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What’s in a name?
I miss the puzzle of learning names. As a School Principal I used to love greeting families, learning student names and being part of the early morning routine welcoming everyone into school. I struggled, I got names wrong, I mixed up pronunciation, put the accent in the wrong place and from time to time muddled…
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Goals, Habits & Growth
Pick a goal, write it down and commit to it. Having a goal is part of the learning process, right? It is embedded in our idea of supporting growth, evaluating achievement and encouraging reflection. We need to articulate where we are headed, develop SMART goals and then work towards these with criteria to assess how,…
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A ‘learning buzz’ in the virtual learning world
I recently wrote about missing the sense of, ‘a learning buzz‘, during these times where many of us have moved to virtual learning spaces. It made me wonder, how can you generate a ‘learning buzz’ in this virtual space? It of course would be fruitless and frustrating to try to copy and paste the same…
Jenny O'Fee 