Teacher Leaders from the USA
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Today we had a visit a group of educators from the USA. The photos show how much everyone was enjoying themselves.
Our guests are members of the Board of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Studies. They were led by their President Nancy DeFord and accompanied by Jenny Lewis who is CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders.
The group came to Australia to attend a conference and visit schools to see what is happening by way of educational innovation in our country.
We had about 2 hours to show them all the things we do in our classrooms. We had 4 teachers and about 10 students to take them on a guided tour through many of our classrooms.
The Board were keen to see how the teachers embed technology into theclassroom. They saw students making games, playing games, writing and reading blogs, using web 2.0 tools creating digital storybooks, making movies, building lego land and playing junkbots, doing number games, drawing like Picasso and testing their knowledge of the eye. All these activities involved using digital technology in the form of IWB’s, computers, Cameras, and videos.
The students and the staff warmed instantly to the interested and interesting visitors. We enjoyed the day enormously and look forward to strengthening our contacts. We learned priceless snippets from talking to these wise and experienced people.
The greenback has already begun its journey!
