Day: October 26, 2016

Dear Teachers,

There will be a field-test for the ETC teacher presentation, Hip-hop in the Classroom: Leveraging rhyme-writing for comprehension, on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 (1st Lunch- 12:55 in C109). This presentation will be run as a quick interactive workshop.  You will explore the links between rhyme-writing/-reciting and meaning-making in Science, Language Arts (i.e. not just English), Maths, Social Studies and many other subject areas. You will walk away with concrete lesson plans  and tools that will help y trial this in the classroom right away. This session is applicable to all G2-G12 teachers. Please come and support your colleague fulfill his requirements to apply for ETC. (If you can make it, please send me a quick RSVP.)

See you next Wednesday!

The attached  list of students will be out of school on Wednesday November 2^nd to Friday November 4^th for ACAMIS Touch Rugby competition in Hongkong.  acamis-touch-rugby-name-list-2

DUE TO TRIP WEEK
The Learning Alchemists Environment next meeting will be

Thursday, October 27

in the Strategy Room at Lunch

We will read the attached article.

Please remember, you can drop in and leave any time. 🙂

Contact Tom Johnson for more details

Article for Oct 27

Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning-A Response to Kirschner Sweller and Clark 2006.pdf

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