Recently I've been given to much pause of thought about learning and education, not the least following watching the movie "The imitation game" about Alan Turing's code breaking during WW2 on the plane, followed by three days of intensive attending of presentations at 21CLHK. It's taken a while to try and crystallise my thoughts, and … Continue reading The Imitation Game
As a teacher-librarian who still has one foot deeply immersed in academia I spend a considerable time wondering if the things we do are the "right" things. And that's before I've opened any social media related to the profession where people are posting articles about the wrongs of everything from levelled reading to literature circles, … Continue reading A short tale of grit and resilience
A few months ago a tradesman came to the door to fix something. Here in Singapore such people are often Muslim and therefore petrified of dogs. So my helper put the dog in a separate part of the house and closed the door, not knowing that it was one of those doors that lock themselves … Continue reading Picking the locks one-by-one
One of the wonderful things about the school I'm teaching at, is that they accept ELLs up to Grade 6 at any level of English. It is also one of the challenging things. It impacts me slightly as I try to help them with making choices for reading books each week, somewhat more when I'm … Continue reading English Language Learner (ELL) resources
Informative Flights - Musings of a Teacher Librarian 