The Teacher Portfolio Challenge: so glad you made it!

Fossil flickr photo by Hellebardius shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license Month five of five is through! Congratulations to participants who carved out time to think and share with us over the past five months.  Moving forward, I hope this process provided a little motivation to continue doing so.  Those of you reading from…

The August Round Up: The Networked Educator Part IV

Network flickr photo by gritphilm shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license Welcome to the penultimate round of our challenge! I’ve long been a big fan of Sylvia Duckworth’s.  If you haven’t lost yourself in her amazing bank of resources, take a deep breath and then: click here.  As our networked-educator challenge comes to month…

Why are my students so passive?

I was chatting with a colleague the other day and it became clear that we are both worried that our students are ‘too passive’ in their learning. After some reflection on my plp goals and how I have been adjusting my craft over the years, it has become clear to me that I have been…