O.R.E.O Online Teaching and Learning Tool Updated In my previous post, “OREO Online Learning Guidelines“, I put together a list of tools our teachers have used to facilitate learning. I intentionally did not introduce any new toolS to avoid adding cognitive load in our initial implementation of asynchronous remote learning. Entering the second implementation of …
A reflection from IDEAS Project This is a reflection after our students completed their IDEAS Project in the last week of the school year. The IDEAS Project’s detailed information and rationale can be found in my previous post, Building the community through IDEAS. I had a meeting with our school parent representatives and successfully got their …
What happens when projects are not graded? We replaced the timetable and ran a special programme called IDEAS Project in 2019-2020 during the online learning period. It aimed to create a learning experience and support students in developing self-directed projects. A list of choices was provided, and students signed up for an option of their …
Differentiated instructions The idea of differentiation has been discussed and explored widely among schools and educators. It is an area of development for my school as recommended by our accreditation organizations. Before diving deeper into how we can provide differentiated instructions, it is worth mentioning some common misconceptions about differentiation observed by Carol Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau …
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What are our roles and responsibilities? Unfortunately, we will begin our second semester virtually after a lovely break. I am very grateful that we all had a lovely break before things got shut down again. I am very grateful that we had an opportunity to travel domestically and visit some beautiful Thailand places. Normally, I …
The 8 Hour Action Plan written by Aloha Lavina provides a guide for school leaders to create an action plan for an evaluation or authorization (accreditation) more productively and efficiently. Anyone who has involved with the school evaluation and/or authorization process would agree in unison that the process is draining and uninspiring. The stress and fatigue is probably …