Understanding the ‘Big Ideas’ Here we are in course two and as I did with course one, I clicked through all of the units to get an idea of how the work flows and big ideas progress through the entire course. Generally, I try to focus on the “Big...
The Essential Elements in the PYP consist of knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes and action. In Making the PYP Happen, it states that a balance is sought between them through delivery of the written curriculum. I’m not sure if the Essential Elements were arranged...
Here is a document I created to help my students give valuable feedback to each other. Some of the sentence starters were taken from the Five Forms of Feedback notes I took at a Cognitive Coaching workshop given by Bill and Ochan Powell at NIST International...
Background As we went through course 1 on COETAIL and I started to think about my final project, I focused my thinking on one thing: How can I integrate technology so that it enhances learning in a part of the curriculum we are already doing? After going...
My interest and passion in video games has been in sharp decline ever since the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was pushed off its pinnacle by Sega and Super Nintendo back in the early 1990’s. In fact, I more or less retired from the video game world after Atari...
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