professional development
Through the Classroom Door: An Inside Look at Differentiation
Outstanding, Creative, Beneficial, Informative, Motivating, Recommendable, Inspirational, Awesome, Wonderful, Insightful, Useful, Excellent, Helpful, and Educational were just a few words to describe last week’s AUSSIE workshop Through the Classroom Door: An Inside Look at Differentiation.
Paragraph Six: Flashes, Specks and Connections
Yes, I’m still hung up on the Zeigarnik effect. I feel its weight on my shoulders every day in the schools. What is our work coming to? A flash of light that fades almost before it’s lit in the short term memory of the students, or the building of a pattern that will serve the students for a lifetime?
Walt Whitman has a line in his poem “There Was a Child Went Forth” (also cited in my third blog post) that reads...
Long Island Schools
AUSSIE consultants are currently active in several of the Districts of Long Island and there is a great deal of enthusiasm amongst this team of AUSSIE professionals about what is happening in their schools. A recurring theme is the wonderful openness of the teachers, with whom they are working, to embracing new ideas and a keenness to learn new ways of working. The other great advantage is the...
Paragraph Six - Second Grade Empiricism and the Zeigarnik Effect
I was able to get back to Tom McMurrer’s second grade classroom this week, at last, and catch up on progress there. They did it! The little folks wrote letters to each other and took a walk to the post office. Because it was the chaotic holiday season, the workers couldn’t show them around, but the young correspondents did post their letters, and not a single hand lost to those alligator-jawed post boxes. Even better, as foretold, the letters arrived at their homes, full of...
Editure Acquires TeachFirst
Acquisition complements existing New York based professional development business
Melbourne, 18 March 2009 - Editure announced today that it has acquired all the assets and operation of TeachFirst, a leading provider of professional development content and services to schools throughout the United States. The acquisition expands Editure's professional development division, which already includes AUSSIE PD (Australian United States Services in Education), a leading New York based provider of on-site professional development, offering training services to school districts and educators. Click for full media release.
