On 16th August 2012 7pm – 8pm we have the next in our regular secondary skype conversations (for secondary teachers using MOTE). On the agenda: Role based assessment tools, Ideas for Drama NZ conference, Feedback from UK / Eire conferences. Please email Viv viva@waikato.ac.nz (or use comment button below) if you wish to be included […]
The next Bay of Plenty regional cluster meeting will be held on Friday 24th August from 6pm at the University of Waikato, Windermere Campus – Room V125. Thanks to Barb and Jon for working on the arrangements! Amongst other things, we will be talking about: Ways to grow MOTE within a school, Role-based Assessment tools […]
Priya Gain from Muritai School has sent the link to her latest blog – a mantle on Ancient Greeks! Have a read… Priya does a really great job at blogging the learning journey in an attractive and accessible way. To visit the blog, click here – or go to links on the right.
https://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpg00Viv Aitkenhttps://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpgViv Aitken2012-08-06 21:19:592016-12-28 09:20:58New blog from Muritai
This clip from the NZ curriculum website [effective pedagogy section] shows Gay Gilbert and Lynette Townsend discussing the advantages of Mantle of the Expert and how they used it in their school. They are describing here a MOTE in which children were in role as documentary researchers, exploring the issue of the Kaimanawa Horse culls. […]
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1911 This TED talk speech from child speaker Adora Svitak has some important messages for teachers, and adults in general. She’s rather terrifyingly precocious but I like how she challenges us to rethink the teacher-student relationship based on trust. And her call to adults to ‘allow us kids to grow […]
https://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpg00Viv Aitkenhttps://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpgViv Aitken2012-07-31 09:46:342016-12-28 09:22:17What adults can learn from kids
Viv Aitken and her 14 third year student teachers from Waikato University are working together with classroom teacher Melissa Phillips and Deputy Principal Gay Gilbert on a 6 week Mantle of the Expert adventure children from room 17, Hillcrest Normal School. We are going to be working with these enthusiastic year 3s as a toy […]
https://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpg00Viv Aitkenhttps://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpgViv Aitken2012-07-25 09:41:072018-10-09 12:28:06Year 3 Mantle – Toy Museum
The next cluster meeting for Waikato primary teachers (and any interested others) will be THURSDAY 2nd AUGUST at 4pm at Puketaha school. An opportunity to catch up on new Mantles underway this term, learn some new drama conventions for your classroom – and plan ideas for future PD.
This post sent in by Priya Gain from Wellington. You can read in more detail about the Mantles described here by visiting the Murutai school blogs (see ‘links’ on the right)……. Priya writes: Pre-service primary school teachers, as part of their teacher training programme at Victoria University of Wellington, are going to be introduced to […]
https://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpg00Viv Aitkenhttps://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpgViv Aitken2012-07-25 04:30:542012-07-25 04:31:45Mantle of the Expert for Pre-service Teachers in Wellington
Here is an example of what teachers in the D4LC (Drama for Learning and Creativity) project in the UK are achieving with drama. In this example, Patrice Baldwin is seen working with teachers of young children to support learning in Maths through drama. Click here
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This moving you tube video is a trailer for a film about education. A compelling addition to the ongoing discussion about the true meaning of education. Well worth a watch… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRi8_fXz1D8
https://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpg00Viv Aitkenhttps://mantleoftheexpert.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mantle-of-the-Expert-logo-.jpgViv Aitken2012-07-01 20:17:552016-12-28 09:23:09We are the people we’ve been waiting for
Secondary cluster Skype meeting
On 16th August 2012 7pm – 8pm we have the next in our regular secondary skype conversations (for secondary teachers using MOTE). On the agenda: Role based assessment tools, Ideas for Drama NZ conference, Feedback from UK / Eire conferences. Please email Viv viva@waikato.ac.nz (or use comment button below) if you wish to be included […]
Bay of Plenty Cluster Meeting – 24th August
The next Bay of Plenty regional cluster meeting will be held on Friday 24th August from 6pm at the University of Waikato, Windermere Campus – Room V125. Thanks to Barb and Jon for working on the arrangements! Amongst other things, we will be talking about: Ways to grow MOTE within a school, Role-based Assessment tools […]
New blog from Muritai
Priya Gain from Muritai School has sent the link to her latest blog – a mantle on Ancient Greeks! Have a read… Priya does a really great job at blogging the learning journey in an attractive and accessible way. To visit the blog, click here – or go to links on the right.
Video clip – teachers talk Mantle
This clip from the NZ curriculum website [effective pedagogy section] shows Gay Gilbert and Lynette Townsend discussing the advantages of Mantle of the Expert and how they used it in their school. They are describing here a MOTE in which children were in role as documentary researchers, exploring the issue of the Kaimanawa Horse culls. […]
What adults can learn from kids
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1911 This TED talk speech from child speaker Adora Svitak has some important messages for teachers, and adults in general. She’s rather terrifyingly precocious but I like how she challenges us to rethink the teacher-student relationship based on trust. And her call to adults to ‘allow us kids to grow […]
Year 3 Mantle – Toy Museum
Viv Aitken and her 14 third year student teachers from Waikato University are working together with classroom teacher Melissa Phillips and Deputy Principal Gay Gilbert on a 6 week Mantle of the Expert adventure children from room 17, Hillcrest Normal School. We are going to be working with these enthusiastic year 3s as a toy […]
Waikato primary cluster meeting
The next cluster meeting for Waikato primary teachers (and any interested others) will be THURSDAY 2nd AUGUST at 4pm at Puketaha school. An opportunity to catch up on new Mantles underway this term, learn some new drama conventions for your classroom – and plan ideas for future PD.
Mantle of the Expert for Pre-service Teachers in Wellington
This post sent in by Priya Gain from Wellington. You can read in more detail about the Mantles described here by visiting the Murutai school blogs (see ‘links’ on the right)……. Priya writes: Pre-service primary school teachers, as part of their teacher training programme at Victoria University of Wellington, are going to be introduced to […]
Link to youtube clip – drama and Maths learning
Here is an example of what teachers in the D4LC (Drama for Learning and Creativity) project in the UK are achieving with drama. In this example, Patrice Baldwin is seen working with teachers of young children to support learning in Maths through drama. Click here
We are the people we’ve been waiting for
This moving you tube video is a trailer for a film about education. A compelling addition to the ongoing discussion about the true meaning of education. Well worth a watch… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRi8_fXz1D8