Stephen
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Making Meaning
In amongst a million other things I am taking part in an IB Educators’ Network up-skilling course (as part of my role as an MYP Site Visitor). One of the discussion questions asked us to reflect on a memorable learning… Continue reading
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Mars-Shot Thinking
Howdy @MarsCuriosity ? Keep in touch. I'll be around. — ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 24, 2014 Mangalyaan, the India Space Research Organisation‘s Mars Orbiter, has just become the first spacecraft from an Asian country to reach Mars – and… Continue reading
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A pragmatic approach to inquiry: my article in IS magazine
The most recent issue of International School Magazine has run a feature written by me on how we interpret and frame inquiry, and is adapted from one of my recent Bath MA assignments. Continue reading
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Where do you come from? Where to next?
Being an international school teacher is an extreme privilege; a series of opportunities that present a unique kind of dilemma, seemingly earlier each year. It becomes more complex with school-age children of our own, and is further complicated by having… Continue reading
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Surfing in Wakayama
We’ve been trying to make a real effort over the summer [and so far this year] to keep a sensible work-life balance. Picking up a second-hand car and surfboard has certainly helped! Continue reading
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How NOT to be ignorant about the world.
Hans Rosling, TED.com “Fame is easy to acquire. Impact is much more difficult.” Update, 2018: As a Rosling fanboy, using their work on i-Biology since about 2008, I was saddened to hear of his death in 2017. However, his recent… Continue reading
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Quick Review: Tony Butt’s Guide to Sustainable Surfing
Quick review of a Kindle quick-read on sustainable surfing. Continue reading
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“You teachers have it easy.” Thankful for our choices.
Long vacations are a time to reflect on the privilege of our lives, and be thankful for the choices we have made. Continue reading
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Growth Mindsets & IB Programme Evaluation
When we take a growth-mindset view to programme evaluation, we see the process for what it is – a valuable, improvement-focused, school-driven method to generate feedback and set action plans. Continue reading
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Are IB Schools Trivium21C Schools?
Trivium21C is an excellent vision for an excellent education, taking the best of the past and the present to prepare young people for the future. Give up the progressive/traditional mud-fight and read this. Continue reading
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Growth Mindsets in Differentiation & Feedback
A short review/summary of Carol Dweck’s Mindset. Continue reading
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Teaching our Sons not to rape: SexEd & #YesAllWomen
This is a brief reflection on a work in progress, but health education in school is very important to me. It is a brief reflection on a project to update and refine a Sex Ed sequence, bringing in a stronger… Continue reading
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Summertime Subsidence: Vacating the Mind of This Year’s Learning
Nobody wants to be that teacher – the one who assigns a massive packet of busy work, due the first day back to school, but it is evident that extended vacations result in a reversal of some learning. This loss of… Continue reading
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Content & Inquiry in a Google World
I don’t know anyone who can successfully teach ‘content-free’. We need to ensure that we teach good content: relevant, current, useful, interesting. We need to teach that content well, using effective methods and ensuring as much as we can that… Continue reading
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Curriculum Spark: ATLAS Webinar
Here are the slides from a short webinar I presented for Rubicon ATLAS on our MYP: Next Chapter journey so far. Over the last couple of years, we have had a lot of interaction with Ben, Chris, Natalie and the… Continue reading
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