Paul


 * Reflections From Day 3

Interesting Video to introduce the day - over 7 minutes, lots and lots of words and background music. Would work well with literate teachers and also with older students. Setting up teacherwork space - something we have been looking forward to since first seeing the tool. Catching up the earlier missed work at lunchtime was a very good idea. Show and tell with other people at times through the session added a lot to our work. While you try very hard to develop good ideas, they are quickly exhausted, and to have other people look at the work and make suggestions allows you to refine and improve your ideas very quickly. Thank goodness it is Friday.



Reflections From Day 4

An interesting day. It was very good to work with the showing evidence tool. This is a tool that requires deep thought. Again, it was very useful to discuss our ideas with other participants - they help clarify our thoughts and make the questions we ask much more valuable. Lots more writing to do. Lots more development to be done. It wasn't Friday!

Reflections and tasks for Day 5

Questions :** I have done the Essentials course.

What are the similarities and differences between the Teach Thinking with Technology and the Essentials course? When I was preparing for this course I was thinking about the subject matter and the resources I would need to produce a course that would make our Senior Trainer happy. I was expecting to make a variety of resources as we did in the essentials course. However, of course, we did develop a unit plan but based upon using the already developed tools. The tools seem to be very flexible and useful. (I am still finding the Showing Evidence Tool a bit of a challenge because of the scope of teh information you can include.) I expect that using tools like this, that are flexible in their use will become a much more important part of the work of teachers in schools in the future.


 * Our two presenters Anne and Trudy worked very closely with us at all stages to ensure we did not get lost and were an\ble to use our time effectively.

Today we covered a great deal. Review module 8, continued with module 9 and completed module 10. Much time spent working on the Unit Plan and developing resources. Late in the day we were able to look at the work that others had completed. This was very intersting. I is impresive how much work people have prepared for use back in their schools.

Dianne did an enormous amount of work preparing resources to be used in the History unit and refining and finishing the Unit Plan. The whole Year 10 History course will benefit enormously.

Thank you Anne and Trudy.**