Podcast as Portfolio Activity?

Can our portfolios promote better listening? Last week, I sat down with Jabiz, Melanie and Stuart to discuss the learning happening in the Daraja GC, IBDP Global Politics, and Sky School. The intention for this 30 minute discussion was to help make our potential connections a little more transparent.  My covert agenda was to provide…

What does it mean to lead from the middle?

Podcast UWCLearn is back!  This episode focuses on middle leadership.  Find out why you may want to have your department create their very own ‘user manuals,’ or why a visual reminder of subject-specific norms might be useful for your students: If you would like to be partnered up with a member of the college to…

Reflection rebranded?

What can we do to repackage the concept of reflection for our students and ourselves? “Reflection isn’t a single thing, a box to check in some elliptical cycle of learning. It’s as much a matter of self-awareness, humility, and affection as it is of timing, sequence, and procedure.” (Read full Edutopia post here) Educators have…

Podcasting as a tool of reflection for students and teachers

Can we podcast for better understanding of our teaching and learning practices? This week  Grade 10 Enterprise teachers were kind enough to invite me in to see first hand what our young innovators are up to.  Episode three of Podcast UWCLearn attempts to capture some of their process and unpack what it means in the…