The Daily Grind

I’m looking forward to my annual visit to SETT this year.

I’ve made time to attend on both days. Other colleagues, I know, probably think that I could spend my time in better ways, but I beg to differ! Each year the seminars I attend inspire us to greater things as a school when I share with staff, either over coffee when they attend themselves, or back at school as we share and reflect; and the ideas gleaned and resources viewed at the exhibition often end up featuring somewhere @ Cardross Primary.

This year, Thursday sees the “Management Team Day”. I will be attending with my two PT’s. A very good idea, we feel, as we can plan for future developments after the same experience – and we’ll do the rounds of the exhibition together, which will save us trying to explain what it was that caught our attention / interest / enthusiasm which we saw individually.

Following Andrew Brown’s lead I’m posting my whereabouts…

Wednesday
12.15 – Every Child Matters – How does the teacher ensure that this Happens?
4.00 – Developing Leadership and Collegiality
Afterwards til 6.00 – TeachMeet 06

Thursday
9.30 – Making Learning Fun
12.45 – To Blog or Not to Blog?
2.45 – The Powerful Effect of Teaching Thinking Explicitly as a Skill

If anyone’s been reading my blog over the past weeks, they’ll hopefully see the tie up with these sessions and the staff development we’ve been concentrating on in school. Approaches to Teaching and Learning, Introduction of ACfE and more creativity, the use of blogs in school.

Bring it on!…

Commiserations to Andrew on his failure to reach his 118. Not really a failure though – a very respectable score notched up!! Well done.