Your School’s Profile: Are you keeping up?
This is something I’m pretty passionate about and something I think most schools don’t fully understand yet. In a socially connected world where communities…
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Disconnect to Connect
Back from a week in Northern Thailand where I took twenty-one 10th and 11th grade students on a week long journey into manual labor,…
A Week Without Wires
This coming week I’ll be disconnected from the world…and will be enjoying it. Each year our high school students take a week off away…
Learning through Presentations
“How many of you have done the 18 minute, right before class, copy and paste, plagiarized, bullet point, turn and read off the screen…
Wiktionary in the EAL Classroom
My favorite part of the CoETaIL program that Kim and I run is coming up this semester. The 5th and final course for the…
Fishbowls and Chat-rooms
I wanted to follow up on the reverse instruction lessons I’ve been working with teachers on.You can read the first blog posts here on…
Reverse Instruction – U.S. History
U.S. History has to be one of the hardest classes to teach at an international school. When at best half your students would be…
Reverse Instruction in IB SL English
reverse instruction Today was our first day back to school after the holiday break and the first day of my little reverse instruction…
2010 in Review
So before I sign off until 2011 I wanted to stop and reflect on 2010...which in many different ways turned out to be a…
90% Educator 10% ?
It’s that time of year again in the international education world of contracts, decisions, and thinking about your future. Kim Cofino has a great…