I haven’t been nearly as prolific in my Food For Thought Friday postings or my blog postings as I should be. This is one of my goals for the new year. Part of my role as principal is to bring you some learnin’. Part of our responsibility as learners is to make our thinking visible and our learning transparent. I’m in week 2 of my Masters’ of Educational Technology studies via the University of British Columbia and exploring my own learning in other areas. This will include a commitment to more open learning from me.
I’m going to bring back the weekly post. I’m also going to continue calling it the FFTF (Food For Thought Friday) but likely ignore the date on the calendar. Sometimes it will be my own thoughts, at other times it will include the thoughts of others but it will always involve something that caused me to think about my own practice and the learning of the students and staff cI work with daily.
I came across a web site discussion on OSSEMOOC (Ontario School and System leaders Edtech Massive Open Online Course) that included excerpts from a Nov 2014 blog post from Brian Harrison, an Ontario principal colleague, who blogged a few months ago about his school’s journey in improving student achievement in math. His discussion includes some intersst ideas about ‘back to basics’ math and ‘new math’. Interesting read and video attachment. Totally FYI. And I know; it’s not Friday. 🙂
http://brian-harrison.net/2014/11/14/ad-infinitum/
Cheers.
Peter
Principal Learning 