Saturday, September 13, 2008

Michael Pohl Workshop

KTB, Col and J9 attended the full day workshop with Michael Pohl at Coley Street. All other staff went to the afterschool workshop at the Events Centre. This way all staff had the same exposure with regards to Michael's thoughts and ideas. We looked at creating a culture of thinking in the classroom, developing a whole school scope and sequence thinking tools, practical aspects of thinking in the classroom, and questioning. We came away with some good resources (thanks KTB for encouraging us to purchase his books and CD's!!) and lots of ideas and inspiration for classroom practice. His enthusiasism and well grounded approaches to learning are infectious.