Development week: Round up

Interested in what else was happening during Development Week? Middle leaders spent 90 minutes exploring portfolios.   We imagined what our portfolios could be four years from now. As a provocation, we listened to one current university student reflect on her High School blogging experience: This student has continued to use a portfolio as a…

Primary Bytes 1st February 2016

Technology for Global Concerns All of our older IT equipment becomes available to our GCs at UWCSEA East. Keeping in mind that the benefits of technology for learning come mainly from shifts in pedagogy, not just having equipment, the focus needs to be on both hardware and quality teaching with technology. There is a process…

iMovie with G1 students

Filming the X for “Don’t do this!” Our Grade 1 students were involved in a service unit recently, and one group of students decided to take action by creating a movie about how to play safely in the playground. I was invited to be a mentor to them as they went about planning, filming and…