World Maths Day 2011

World Maths Day 2010

Information about World Maths Day 2011, including dates, and a mention about World Spelling Day.

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Soapbox — origins

soapbox

The origins of the Soapbox article in the Good Teacher Magazine. Reprinted once again, online. People are still invited to ‘have their say’ in the current magazines.

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The week that was

A list of the things that have been added to the site over the last 7 days.

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Screen sizes

Explanation about why the minimum width of the website has changed.

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New Stuff

An explanation of some of the new features added recently.

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More changes

Over the past few days there have been some major changes to parts of the layout of the site.

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Happy Engagement

Teachers engaging students happens during teacher “up front” time and later when students undertake learning activities while the teacher circulates in the class room during “on task” time. In both situations, teachers “engage” the students, but use two different styles.

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If it looks good it must be learning!

It’s easy to build on and deepen basic cognitive processes.

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Enriched Thinking for All Learners

Higher order thinking has become ‘flavour of the month/s’ in New Zealand education although, of course, the concept of having various levels of thinking has been around for some time.

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The Vision Vacuum

Bruce Hammond’s recent ezine (www.leading-learning.co.nz/newsletters/2005-no26.html) queries the Ministry’s vision for NZ education. Two points are particularly pertinent to this article:

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