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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Lea de Groot wrote:
> On 12/12/2008, at 8:49 AM, Paul Brooks wrote:
> 
>> ...which I am sure he could have given to you at home, allowing the
>> parent/teacher time to be used for joint planning of your childs
>> education between parent and (gasp) teacher. Sounds like the teacher
>> didn't want to be left alone in a room with a serial conga-line of
>> parents - or was there an opportunity for that interaction as well?
> 
> My youngest's teacher did the same thing.
> It had all the thumbprints of a template into which she had been  
> pasting things.
> It was an appropriate tool to display portions of his work, short  
> videos of what he is doing ('you can see in this video how his sense  
> of balance isn't as good as we expect for his age')
> Overkill, but it obviously allowed her to structure her presentation  
> to us
> And as an end of year summary, it wasn't about 'planning' for the boy,  
> it was about bringing us up to date.
> 
> So, embarrassing (she hadn't found the time to fill everything in, but  
> the intention was we would get a copy on CD at the end of the year),  
> but it worked.
> 
> Lea

A couple of nights ago, a kindy teacher shared her experience of teaching
computers to her class...they were presented with a screen requiring a case
sensitive password....think about that as a useful skill and how you would teach it.

Marghanita
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