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Gettin’ Your Culture On(line)

By On November 9, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Class Blog, COETAIL, Curriculum, Ideas in Education, Literacy, Technology in the Classroom

I’ve always had an issue with the term international school. It’s probably due largely to the fact that working with lower elementary kids, the majority of my students have barely ever lived in their country. Still others have multiple nations that they’ve been told they come from.

Invariably, our schools have special days or units […]

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Where is the Justice?

By On October 28, 2012 · 5 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Service Learning

In the past few posts where I’ve explored my sense of what should be part of each school day I’ve looked at the value of hands-on, hearts-on learning, and of being outdoors, physical and creative. This time I want to look a little bit more at the content of the learning, […]

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Making Time for Doing It

By On September 23, 2012 · 2 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education

Nearly every school year, somewhere early on, I end up doing some sort of informal survey, or engaging in a broad conversation with my students about different ways of learning. The learning strategies I touch on mostly draw from Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.

This year, just ankle-deep in our first unit of inquiry […]

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3 Inspirations for Designing Time

By On September 16, 2012 · 5 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Technology in the Classroom

Coming off the back of my research on the world of timetabling, I find this lingering question of what should be part of each and every day. I suppose when I ask this, I’m mostly asking about a school day, because those are the bulk […]

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180 days. 6 hours each. September to June.

By On June 17, 2012 · 1 Comment · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Ideas in Education, Literacy

180 days. 6 hours each. September to June.
That’s the way it was when I was growing up in Toronto. That’s the way it is for my students growing up in Yokohama.

Each year when we receive our weekly schedules at YIS, I stare at it dumbfounded. How the heck am I supposed to […]

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