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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 2nd, 2012  Posted in: 4. Reviews and Reflections Tags for this post:  Leave a commentI don’t usually do end of year retrospectives, but looking back on 2011, I find myself in a reflective mood. It has been quite a year. 2011 was always going to be a busy year for me – I was still in my first year working at a new school and I had finally [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 7th, 2011 Posted in: 4. Reviews and Reflections Tags for this post: lesson planning. Leave a commentI love it when I have an “Aha!” moment. No, I’ve not been listening to 80s pop, I’m talking about those moments of real insight, when everything clicks into place. I’ve not been experiencing many of those lately, so I’ll tell you about the “Aha!” moment’s less glamorous relation instead. I like to call [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 3rd, 2011 Posted in: 4. Reviews and Reflections | MEd study Tags for this post: Leave a commentAfter years of prevarication, I finally signed up to study for an MEd this year. I started full of enthusiasm, at much the same time that I started my new job (about which I was also full of enthusiasm). I think it would be fair to say that the job is going rather better [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 4th, 2011 Posted in: 4. Reviews and Reflections Tags for this post: Leave a commentI’ve been very quiet here of late, but that’s mainly because I’ve been very busy over here. I’ve run a website for my students for quite a while now, but around a year or so ago I decided that it was time for a change. My site was pink, chaotic and stuck in the [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 21st, 2010 Posted in: 4. Reviews and Reflections Tags for this post: classroom | horseshoe | pod | row | tables. Leave a commentSometimes you just have to turn around and swim against the tide. After 18 years of putting classroom tables in groups at every opportunity, I’ve switched back to putting them in rows. It may not be fashionable, it may result in inattentive observers leaping to conclusions about the amount of group/paired/discussion work going [...] |
Hi, I'm Lois Lindemann - welcome to my blog! I teach maths at Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, a secondary school in the UK. This is where I'm planning to share links and explore ideas that I find useful or interesting - hopefully other educators will also find something of interest here. Thanks for dropping in. Feel free to comment. NB: Any opinions expressed here are those of the author or commenter; they don't (necessarily) reflect the view taken by Dronfield Henry Fanshawe.   |
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