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Category: Professional Development

Pandemic Pedagogy & What comes next

Pandemic pedagogy and What comes Next (a Keynote Presentation)

August 9, 2020 Joel Speranza Blended Learning, Classroom Practice, Professional Development Leave a comment

COVID-19 Online learning. How we did it, what we learned, and where to next.

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Why My Classroom Needs a Mission Statement

May 11, 2017 Joel Speranza Classroom Practice, Professional Development Leave a comment

Note: I am not an expert in this topic. In fact, I have no idea what I’m doing. I am live blogging my live learning

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Video Classroom Observations – Awesome

October 26, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development One comment

I’ve written about classroom observations before. If you haven’t already read it, you might want to check it out here. Better Classroom Observations: How to break

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Engaging Staff Meetings: Technology Speed-Dating

October 11, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development, Technology Coach 4 comments

How do you hold an engaging, informative and worthwhile staff meeting for 130 staff? This was the question I had to ask myself when the

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Teach Teachers to Code and Watch What Happens Next

September 28, 2016 Joel Speranza Coding and Computational Thinking, Professional Development, Technology Coach 5 comments

Do we need specialist teachers to teach coding and computational thinking? Or can we trust our current teachers to handle the new digital technology curriculum?

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Supporting Beginning Teachers

September 25, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development One comment

Beginning teachers don’t get supported like they used to. This might sound like I’m yearning for a time I never knew but I’m feeling pretty

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Teacher Upgrades

Teacher Upgrades

September 22, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development, Technology Coach Leave a comment

It’s school holidays here in Brisbane. This means I can indulge in a few of my guilty pleasures. It’s difficult to admit but one of

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Better Classroom Observations: How to Break Down a Door

September 2, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development One comment

In the beginning of my career I had some pretty rough classroom observations. I can talk about them because I’ve since moved on and  nobody

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Learning is Not a Spectator Sport

July 28, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning, Professional Development One comment

In this week’s blog: Podcasts, Learning as sporting event, Ex-Student Olympians, How I disappointed my Pre-Service teacher and why I’m teaching less and less. This week I’ve

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How Coffee Improved My Teaching

July 7, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development One comment

How a weekly coffee made me a better, more reflective, more fearless educator. Alternatively, what teachers can learn from cliff-divers What if I told you that

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The Long Apprenticeship Just Got Longer

June 14, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development, Random musings, Technology Coach Leave a comment

As teachers, we serve incredibly long apprenticeships. We enter school as 6 year old children and watch and learn from our grade 1 teacher. We

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Please Ditch the SlideShow – It’s PowerPointless

June 2, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development, Technology Coach Leave a comment

An interesting paradox has slowly been presenting itself. When I talk to teachers, I sometimes ask them about whether they use PowerPoint, Prezi, Google Slides

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