Estelle Pizer

March 27, 2009 09:44 PM

Learning, Teaching, Learning

Well it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything, words or pictures. Teaching is a job that seems to take over my brain, there's always so much more to learn, create, think and do. Currently my brain is overflowing with VERY exciting information. Two educators who have inspired and improved my teaching over the years are now working intensively in the Western Metropolitan Region - Faye Bolton and Di Snowball. Their work in the learning and teaching of English works, period. I feel incredibly privileged and happy to be able to learn more strategies and approaches that create better results for the children with whom I work. Current Mathematical thinking is being introduced brilliantly by the gorgeous Lorraine Kennedy, her support this year has made my kids and myself smarter Mathematicians already. In ICT I'm creating an online relationship with a High School in New Zealand and a Primary School in Townsville, Northern Queensland where our kids will collaborate on an environmental project. I've never posted anything about my teaching before, this is strange. I think I'll post some photos of my classroom this week just to prove that I really am a teacher now. I'm glad I stayed in teaching this year, I wouldn't have wanted to have missed all this.

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August 10, 2008 05:35 PM

Spring is nearly here

Well it's official thank goodness. Spring is on its way judging by the blossoms that are starting to bloom around Melbourne. Their determination to flower in spite of the freezing cold is impressive. They're not Sakura but looking at them up close through my camera lens, Melbourne can almost feel like Japan! Of course I'm still learning how to use the micro lens. Oh it would be so easy just to go back to the point and shoot camera and not care but where's the satisfaction in that? So I will persist in lugging lenses, tripods around and work on understanding the language and processes of photography just because I can. Oh, I went to a maze recently. I'd heard or read somewhere that to get out of a maze you keep turning left. Um... that didn't work. But we got out anyway! Persistence and determination win out again:-D

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