NAPP2016 – Page 2 – ibpossum takes on tech

Learning

This year, and hopefully from here on in, I am a learner formally known as a teacher. @michaeltarry @TheOrganist @ThomasHaig @Cherie59789095 I am a learner- and a geek who can't quite believe this is how she spends Sat night — Rachel Chisnall (@ibpossum) February 13, 2016 I don’t teach Chemistry or Science, I help peopleContinue reading “Learning”

What’s up 2016?

It would be fair to say at the end of 2015 I needed a holiday like I have seldom needed a holiday before. I was shattered. Bone crushingly exhausted. I didn’t mark thank goodness and basically spent a week on the couch doing not much of anything. Slowly it felt like I came to life,Continue reading “What’s up 2016?”

Distributive Leadership

Originally posted on Sonya @VanSchaijik:
Hellen Keller said, ‘The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.’ In Samoa we have a saying: “O Manu o le lauamanu e felelei mamao” meaning ‘Birds that fly together go far.’…

Follow the leader…..

Lately I have been thinking a lot about how to ‘lead’. What it means to be a ‘leader’, or what is my ‘leadership style’. I’m toying with the idea of doing some ‘educational leadership papers’ or perhaps a masters. What could I do to improve my performance as a leader, what expectations do people haveContinue reading “Follow the leader…..”