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I recently received an email from a colleague who had addressed me as her "Marigold". I saw that the word marigold was hyperlinked, but as always, I was too busy and told myself I'd check it out later. A few days past and I saw the same colleague in passing, and she greeted me saying, "Hi Marigold'. I smiled, and we chatted and all…

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Dear Friends,



A previously written post, just waiting to be published...



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I write from Thailand as the Thai New Year draws close! I love the festival that goes along with the Thai New Year.  Songkran สงกรานต์ - Many only know of it as the 'Water Festival'.  However, there is a deeper symbolic meaning to all that water throwing - a beautiful gesture of cleansing away…

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I'm always on the look out for information regarding concept based learning especially related to Early Years Education. Lucky me, came across Christopher Frost's blog post fresh off the press this morning and found it refreshing to read through. Having worked exclusively within the IB PYP framework for the past 12 years I was glad to…

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Hi Everyone,

I'm currently (as always) researching, this time about multimodal literacies and 21st Century learning skills.

Following is a link to a video I found worth watching. I have also embedded it into the video section of…

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Hi All,

Here is an informative story worth reading. Shared by Reed Rhodes, a Learning Support teacher who carries around a large toolbox as he visit the classes of Beijing City International School (BCIS).

Want to know what's in the box? Find out here!

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I finally have more time to focus on this ning as the school year is over.

One of my concerns is differentiated instruction. We all know the psychological and pedagogical foundations for such an approach, so I won't insist on that.

What I would like to hear about is how exactly you use it in your classrooms, what are your best experiences in this regard, how you could do it without enough resources, how often do you feel you really make use of it etc as… Continue

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You all know I try to keep up with "What's hot" in I.T. (especially when it comes to Mac's - smile), but this is not a Mac thing! This is about using I.T., Blogs in particular, within the primary classroom. I found this great 'Wiki' resource through the http://pypthreads.ning.com/ that some of you are familiar with. Soooo! if you are hesitant to use I.T. within your classroom as a tool -which will no doubt promote… Continue