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April 2012 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. Reflection after Assignment 1 the role of the teacher librarian. One of the messages I am getting from the reading is that the role of the teacher librarian can be surprisingly political. That is principals and school administrators can be reluctant to fund and staff school libraries properly. The provision of lap-top computers to students and faculty has, in some people’s minds, solved the infor...The f...
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Review – The Price of Privilege: How parental pressure and material advantage are creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids. New York: Harper. 2008. – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. Review The Price of Privilege: How parental pressure and material advantage are creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids. New York: Harper. 2008. The Price of Privilege. Gives the non-professional a good overview of the problems besetting affluent teens with some compassionate and practical alternatives to their current predicament. 1,239 more words. July 30, 2014. August 28, 2014 at 8:50 pm.
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February 2012 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. Learning the world of TL. This is my second blog, my first being a reading and review blog at www.diamondsharp.wordpress.com. February 15, 2012. February 15, 2012. Leave a comment on Learning the world of TL. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. What becomes an English teacher? On dressage and teaching. Pressed 1 week ago.
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January 2015 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. Reflections on Reading Group Readings January 2015 Kracauer and Benjamin. The two readings for the Summer meeting of the Monash Literacy and Teaching Reading Group (a descriptive rather than ‘official’ title) were from Germany in 1930. One was an excerpt from Siegfried Kracauer’s. The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany. 1,645 more words. January 24, 2015. Follow Blog via Email. Revie...
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April 2014 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. Yagelski, Writing, and the Lego Movie. The set reading for the discussion was A Thousand Writers Writing: Seeking Change through the Radical Practice of Writing as a Way of Being by Robert Yagelski. This was my first encounter with Yagelski’s work. Some of the ideas that caught my attention in the article were:. That writing is a way of. 1,618 more words. April 25, 2014. Follow Blog via Email. Review The...
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July 2013 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. What that PD about Asperger’s and ASD did not tell you. So off to the GP we went. With referral in hand, we attended a child psychologist and a paediatrician. They asked me lots of questions. They observed Nick in formal and informal ways. My husband and I filled in lots of questionnaires on Nick’s development and behaviour. Because he may have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. A visit to an Occupational Ther...
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November 2012 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. ETL 503 Resourcing the Curriculum Reflection on Module 1 definitions of Collection management. Well, it is time to get back on the wagon for my studies to be a Teacher Librarian after a semester-long hiatus. So into ETL503 Resourcing the Curriculum which is the unit I am doing over the summer semester. Some consideration of definitions:. Collection management’, on the other hand, seems to be more encompa...
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Yagelski, Writing, and the Lego Movie – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. Yagelski, Writing, and the Lego Movie. The set reading for the discussion was A Thousand Writers Writing: Seeking Change through the Radical Practice of Writing as a Way of Being by Robert Yagelski. This was my first encounter with Yagelski’s work. Some of the ideas that caught my attention in the article were:. That writing is a way of. 1,618 more words. April 25, 2014. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Revie...
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PLN – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. PLN 2013 Unit 1 — Getting Started. PLN 2013 Unit 1. My name is Fleur Diamond and I am an English teacher at Methodist Ladies’ College in Kew, Victoria. I started out in teaching at university 1996 2001 while I was finishing a PhD in English Literature. After completing a Grad. Dip. Ed. in 2002 I moved into secondary teaching and have been there ever since. March 30, 2013. March 31, 2013. Review: Brigid S...
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March 2013 – Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning
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Diamond Sharp — Professional Learning. Reflections on teaching and learning in the English classroom. PLN 2013 Unit 1 — Getting Started. PLN 2013 Unit 1. My name is Fleur Diamond and I am an English teacher at Methodist Ladies’ College in Kew, Victoria. I started out in teaching at university 1996 2001 while I was finishing a PhD in English Literature. After completing a Grad. Dip. Ed. in 2002 I moved into secondary teaching and have been there ever since. March 30, 2013. March 31, 2013. Review: Brigid S...
