The following post was presented at my blog, The Everyday Language Learner on October 31st of 2011.  It received a lot of reaction and I thought it might be a fun topic to discuss here. I would love to hear what others think.  You can see how others responded in just under 50 comments at the blog and I'd love to see a discussion take place here.…

As 2011 draws to a close, I look back on the most polarised year of my career as an educator. Whilst the teaching I have employed in the classroom was easily the most exciting of my career, the reaction from others was decidedly mixed, and in some cases, outright hostile. Perhaps this is a sign I'm headed in the right direction... or perhaps it is the opposite. In any case, this year has tested my resolve, hardened me, and pushed me into new directions. The journey this year has been…

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Fourth graders in our school are singing 'Light the Candles All Around the World' by Teresa Jennings for their holiday concert on December 15th.  I have invited interested teachers, students and friends to share a photo of a candle from wherever they are located to add to our google map.  The image that is shared can be a scanned drawing, an original photo of a candle with or without students (back of head okay).  No student names are included.  If you'd like to join this short…

One of the saddest things about the end of the year is that I won't be able to team-teach a class with Simone Uren. Simone is an amazingly perceptive woman, with a way of cutting to the heart of an issue with a single sentence. I will write more about my time team-teaching with her as the year ends, but I did want to write about one thing in particular she said recently.

As you would know if you read my blog, one of the things I have worked the hardest on and am most proud of is…

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A quick one tonight. I'm starting to feel the Writers' club is gaining momentum; as if it is starting to be big enough to be self-sustaining, without needing me to prompt students to contribute to it. As a good online community should.

I've been keeping an eye on the conversations spontaneously generating between students. While the ones between students of the same school are interesting, it's the ones that occur between students of…