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		<title>Challenges of professional accomplishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the idea of professional accomplishment and teaching standards are very worthwhile but there are some challenges in ensuring validity. I think one of the difficulties of going through the process of professional accomplishment is the idea that you need to prove to a few people that you meet a whole raft of criteria [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=415&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visible learning for teachers &#8211; John Hattie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just received John Hattie&#8217;s latest book which aims to explain how to apply the principles of his previous book to &#8216;any classroom anywhere in the world. I will keep a summary of some of the points he raises I think are useful and keep them at the link below. Hope they might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=409&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embedded formative assessment &#8211; Dylan William</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays is always a good time to catch up on some reading and make plans for putting any useful recent ideas into action for the following year. I find that very few of the ideas I come across actually get fully implemented. I don&#8217;t think this is a bad thing necessarily as when you read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=404&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Professional accomplishment &#8211; Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are probably a few key reasons why I have chosen to complete the professional accomplishment process. 1. For further formal professional learning to help reflect on my development as a teacher. 2. For acknowledgment of the skills and knowledge I have developed over my teaching career. 3. To go through the process to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=395&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 &#8211; professional accomplishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have noticed myself being drawn to reading about nuts and bolts, nitty gritty teaching blogs and figured that it might be an interesting exercise for 2012 to begin writing along these lines. 2012 will also see me begin a journey towards professional accomplishment with the NSW Institute of Teachers and so I figure that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=388&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much &#8216;stuff&#8217; do we need to know?</title>
		<link>http://smallersteps.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/facts-and-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read regularly that now we have access to information at our finger tips we don&#8217;t need to focus so much on remembering facts because we can always look them up. So&#8230; How much &#8216;stuff&#8217; do we need to &#8216;know&#8217; to be able to be fully functioning in society as an educated human being? What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=229&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership</title>
		<link>http://smallersteps.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice little presentation I stumbled across. A lot resonated so thought I would keep a copy here to stumble over every now and again. 10 Habits Of The Great Leader View more presentations from Sompong Yusoontorn &#160; &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=366&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges of instructional and curriculum leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to answer some questions around the challenges of my current role as Curriculum Coordinator. I though I would post my responses here to be able to reflect on them when I have been on the role longer to see how my thoughts and perceptions may develop and change. What are the main [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=355&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning styles don&#8217;t exist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=201004051300 Find more videos like this on English Companion Ning<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=347&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hattie professional learning day &#8211; Newcastle 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hattie workshop The following videos are a recording of one of John Hattie&#8217;s presentations where he covers some of the key themes from his book. His somewhat confrontational style certainly aims to get you thinking. Well worth a watch when you get a chance.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallersteps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13690094&amp;post=343&amp;subd=smallersteps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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