Passionate Teachers: 2016

Saturday, 31 December 2016

Understanding by Design | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University

Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History | Hardback | DK.com

Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History | Hardback | DK.com: Painstakingly produced, superbly illustrated, Star Wars™ Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated Edition presents a unique Star Wars

Design Thinking and PBL

Design Thinking and PBL: Design thinking and PBL can bridge what we know and how we innovate. Try combining these two practices as an instructional framework for teaching 21st-century skills.

2016: The Awesome, the Painful, and the Viral The past year saw ideas both good and bad spreading ever faster. How can we make our best teaching ideas go viral?

https://www.edutopia.org/article/2016-awesome-painful-viral-vicki-davis

Thursday, 22 September 2016

Make It Count: Providing Feedback as Formative Assessment

Make It Count: Providing Feedback as Formative Assessment: Giving feedback that is non-evaluative, specific, timely, and goal-related will provide students with opportunities to revise and improve their work and deepen their understanding.

Social Media at School: Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground

Social Media at School: Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground: Responsible digital citizens emerge from schools where students are taught about the rules, risks, and trust involved in the safe, respectful use of social media.

Evaluating Websites as Information Sources

Evaluating Websites as Information Sources: Using a six-point strategy, teachers can help students learn about responsible web research by assessing the validity of most information that they’ll encounter online.

Saturday, 17 September 2016

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX78iKhInsc

Sunday, 4 September 2016

5 mistakes principals should avoid!

http://thinkstrategicforschools.com/blog/back-school-5-mistakes-principals-should-avoid

Monday, 20 June 2016

Interesting to see which groups are mainly voting to remain, and which ones are voting to leave the EU

https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/cc9a4669-16a8-4910-a453-8ab8cc363384-original.jpeg

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Reflection: A Tool for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness

Reflection: A Tool for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness: Through being reflective about your own teaching practices, model and guide students toward a more reflective approach to their projects, grades, actions, and reactions.

Reflecting on the Year's Accomplishments

Reflecting on the Year's Accomplishments: Before your school community scatters for the summer, reflect on your teaching year through student feedback (face-to-face or anonymous), self-evaluation, parent feedback, and your PLN.

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Balancing Choice and Freedom for Happiness and Satisfaction

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2016/06/05/balancing-choice-and-freedom-for-happiness-and-satisfaction/

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Easing the Stress of Evaluations for Administrators

Easing the Stress of Evaluations for Administrators: Observe and advise your teachers throughout the year, and at their summative evaluations, celebrate their strengths and share possible improvements through open-ended questions.

How To Solve A Rubik's Cube

How To Solve A Rubik's Cube: The easiest Rubik's Cube solution ever. You only have to learn 6 algorithms. We divide the Rubik's Cube into 7 layers and solve each group not messing up the solved pieces

Monday, 23 May 2016

Good Design - 10 Principles

http://gooddesign.io/

Sunday, 22 May 2016

Secret Teacher: we have one of the best jobs in the world, so stop moaning

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/apr/04/secret-teacher-best-jobs-world-moaning

Thursday, 19 May 2016

What’s Next? Personalized, Project Based Learning

http://bie.org/blog/whats_next_personalized_project_based_learning?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bie-blog+%28Blog+%7C+Buck+Institute+for+Education%29

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Resources on Mindfulness in Education

Resources on Mindfulness in Education: Discover how mindfulness practices are being applied in schools, learn about some of the early research on benefits, and explore classroom, school-wide, and after-school strategies and programs.

Project Based Learning ... save the date!!

Hellenic American Educational Foundation (www.haef.gr)

TEACHERS TRAINING TEACHERS 2016

Σάββατο, 21 Μαΐου 2016, 09:30-13:30

Φιλήμων Διαμαντίδης, Στασινή Φράγκου

«H αξία του Project Based Learning για τη διδακτική πράξη (1)»

Κυριακή, 22 Μαΐου 2016, 10.00-13.30

Φιλήμων Διαμαντίδης, Στασινή Φράγκου

«Οργανώνοντας ένα Project (2)»

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

What’s the point of design and technology?

https://www.stem.org.uk/blog/what%E2%80%99s-point-design-and-technology

Thursday, 12 May 2016

8 Travel Grants and Fellowships for Educators

8 Travel Grants and Fellowships for Educators: Teacher travel grants can be the perfect source to fund professional development, service-learning, and study abroad trips. Here are some resources to help teachers apply and some of the best places to look.

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Flexible Seating and Student-Centered Classroom Redesign

Flexible Seating and Student-Centered Classroom Redesign: Flexible classroom seating invites collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking by helping students manage their physical energy and comfort as they learn on their own terms.

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

10 team building games that promote critical thinking

http://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/10-team-building-games-that-promote-critical-thinking/

Monday, 2 May 2016

3D Printed Prosthetic Projects: Front Line of a Disruptive Revolution

http://bie.org/blog/3d_printed_prosthetic_projects_front_line_of_a_disruptive_revolution?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bie-blog+%28Blog+%7C+Buck+Institute+for+Education%29

Friday, 29 April 2016

Leonardo da Vinci!!

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/

Wednesday, 27 April 2016

13 ways to help students do what they say they are going to do

http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/13-ways-to-help-students-do-what-they-say-theyre-going-to-do/

20 Ideas to Promote More Creativity in Your Classroom

http://www.fusionyearbooks.com/blog/creative-classrooms/

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Resources on Learning and the Brain

Resources on Learning and the Brain: Browse a list of articles, videos, and other links for exploring the connection between education and neuroscience.

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Strategies for Reaching Quiet, Disengaged, Struggling, and Troublemaking Students

Strategies for Reaching Quiet, Disengaged, Struggling, and Troublemaking Students: Not every student benefits from in-class participation, immediate answers, inflexible grading, or harsh consequences. Learn the nuances for those requiring deeper recognition and a lighter touch.

5 Tips for Teaching the Tough Kids

5 Tips for Teaching the Tough Kids: Guest blogger Josh Work shares five techniques for dealing with middle school students who present ongoing discipline issues. His underlying theme is recognizing these kids as adolescents seeking ways to cope with stress or complicated lives.

Sunday, 28 February 2016

'The Class' - A Film to Teach and Inspire

'The Class' - A Film to Teach and Inspire: Mark Phillips draws compelling case studies (for both students and teachers) from a masterful French film about the tensions and possibilities in a multicultural classroom.

18Φεβ2016 – Ειδικές Αποστολές

18Φεβ2016 – Ειδικές Αποστολές: «Η ζωή στη Λέσβο των προσφύγων» Αυτή την Πέμπτη,ανήμερα της Ευρωπαϊκής Συνόδου Κορυφής για το προσφυγικό, η εκπομπή κάνει πρεμιέρα με το φλέγον θέμα του προσφυγικού. Ειδικότερα, ο Φάνης Παπαθανασίου ταξίδεψε στη Λέσβο και κατέγραψε συγκλονιστικές ιστορίες ασυνόδευτων προσφυγόπουλων, τις τακτικές των διακινητών, τους ήρωες του λιμανιού της Μυτιλήνης και της Συκαμιάς, καθώς και την […]

Sunday, 21 February 2016

"Bedrooms" Project ... I forgot the Moodboards!! :-)

Saturday, 6 February 2016

"Bedrooms" Project - some very good Initial Designs ... well done kids!!! (Year 8)

Thursday, 4 February 2016

PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit

PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit: Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller looks at the enhanced possibilities of using 21st century skills to engage students with real-world challenges through combining the pedagogical model of PBL with the rich content area of STEAM.

STEAM Project-Based Learning: Real Solutions From Driving Questions

STEAM Project-Based Learning: Real Solutions From Driving Questions: At Charles R. Drew Charter School, third-grade students use PBL to prepare for the next Snowpocalypse.