Still Here!!

Well it has been a while since my last post. As one of my colleagues (Joan) mentioned the time to get everything done and up to date is difficult.

My professional experience went very well and I am returning to the same school for my six week internship at the end of the year. I am very happy with the way my teaching has developed over the past year. I have never really lacked confidence in the classroom it has been only with other educators. What I found really beneficial was the continued support and openness that came from having such a collaborative and collegial staff. The mixture between experienced educators and new recently graduated eduactors was a great balance. All teachers were open to sharing new ideas and new ways of doing things. I know I am making this sound like some kind of utopia, don't get me wrong there are issues like in every school. But they do seem to be on the right track to a finely balanced system of collaboration and cooperation.

I have been spending some time on Classroom 2.0 and the discussions have been fascinating. One of the posts was discussing the use of robotics and how Lego have designed a system called Mindstorms to show how robotics works. These would be a fantastic program to use with students from 5-7 as the levels of difficulty can be increased easily. Have a look and let me know what you think.

Cheers

Al