Jan

Jan's adventures in INTEL Wonderland
January 21st Just loved our first day. Of course the concept is such a brilliant way of integrating SACSA and higher orde thinking skills into planning our term units but the chance for the four Maccy classroom teachers to work together for a day was also invaluable! We were all rather suspect of the INTEL involvement and how that would impact and are relieved to see that we don't have to sign our souls to the INTEL corporation! We had to change our focus from planning for the BIODIVERSITY when we realised that we needed more time and are all very happy to plan our units for the fourth term Celebration topic with the essential question for all 4 units being "Why do we celebrate?" Janet and Meg are using the de Bono thinkers' hats for their thinking skills component and Janet and I will stick to the Bloom's/Gardner's proformo as it has more challenges for the older students.

February 14th I found a great link to an Australian High School who on their site have great posters to explain Gardner's intelligences to the students and have also great littlebrochures. We will definitely need to explain these concepts to the students and let them find out which is best suited to them. Gardner's

Albury North High School also have an excellent page with links to templates for planning including the Bloom's Garners one which you only used to be able to get by going to Ralph Pirozzo the workshops!

@http://www.alburynth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/think/frontpage/proforma.html

I have had a bit of fun using shapes etc on word to adapt the circus planner Belinda gave us for our "Why do we celebrate unit" so that we can do some seroius planning tomorrow! March 3rd After much searching and not finding a siutable panning grid I have devised my own to integrate the revised Bloom's Taxonomy(revised by Anderson) and added Natural Intelligence to the Gardner'sintelligences. So than it was easy to fill up the grid with a good variety of activities. Did not fill it up completely as after all it will only be 7 weeks woth of work. Here it is!