OK, OK – I should have seen it coming but I didn’t.
The WA Teachers’ Lounge Site (www.wateacherslounge.wordpress.com) is doing very well! If you are following this (Whitehead Wonderings) site for our educational updates, please subscribe to the WA Teachers’ Lounge website (above) OR “LIKE” our Facebook Site at: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/WA-Teachers-Lounge/154210691257798
See you soon! No point having two sites that ‘do’ the same thing. I have added a FEED to the right hand side so you watch from there if you like.
Paul W
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Inspired by the Summit 2020, we last year launched a ‘Youth Symposium’ for our Year 11 English class. This has been a fantastic, purpose driven task that really helped to develop the leadership of our Year 11s as they prepared for provisional leadership in their final years at the college.
Last year, students focused on CHANGING OUR SCHOOL with symposium proposals that included: school lockers, a student study centre at the college, development of the Duke of Edinburgh Award, a ‘School Band’ and ‘Music’ program and laptops in school.
The Principal, Deputy Principal, Business Manager and a range of other classes (and teachers) were invited to attend the final Symposium presentation after a full rehearsal. Students commented that they were committed to their project presentation because they knew ’that the people who were attending had the influence and money to make the projects happen’. Just what we had hoped!
We have just launched a similar brief with our current (2010) Year 11′s and thought I would keep an online record of our progress. The task will be maintained as a PAGE on this website and will be updated weekly for the purpose of outlining some of the projects and the kind of support that has been offered to students in developing their symposium topic.
I would LOVE to hear if others have tried this and what success they have experienced. You can see our progress on my ‘other’ blog if it is something you are keen to follow- HERE IS A LINK TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE.
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Happy Father’s Day! I came across this brief article from ‘Men’s Health’ that had been posted to me on one of my on-line auto-subscriptions of all things educational! The article is short and punchy and deals with the best way to support your children in the homework arena.
I am always impressed with the parents who are able to deliver consistent routines, times and locations as a means of stable on-going study habit and I suspect these habits are developed very early. I’m certainly not a perfect parent in this arena so was interested in this general list of suggestions. Would love to hear your successful additions?
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/mens-health/article/-/7298506/win-the-homework-wars/
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