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Define (or redefine) your role as a coach

This week I’ve had a bit of time to look at the social media challenges designed by Eduro Learning.  These challenges are intended to be used as Resolutions for Coaches for the New Year.  Resolution #1 is about redefining your role.  As the downloadable resource explains, a big

Written by Maggie McGrane January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

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What’s new and different: Technology in the PYP

This post is the second one about the PYP Enhancements and what is new and different as opposed to a deeper focus.  For today’s post I decided to write about technology as this is an area I’ve been heavily involved in at all of the 4 PYP schools where I’ve worked.  The pr

Written by Maggie McGrane December 31, 2019January 4, 2020

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What’s new and different: The Early Years

As a way of getting back into blogging for 2020, I decided I’d write a series of posts about what is new and different in the Enhanced PYP.  I decided that I’d start with the Early Years, since I’m preparing for a workshop in February which focuses on this age group, and also

Written by Maggie McGrane December 30, 2019January 7, 2020

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Draw – don’t write!

Several months ago, after my mother died, I decided to join a sketchbooking class in my village that was run by a local artist.  The reasons for this were that firstly I needed to do something to fill the “gap” in my life – I had spent so much time every week with mum and

Written by Maggie McGrane December 30, 2019January 4, 2020

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60 Nice Things

Back in March I decided that I needed to do at least one nice thing for myself every week (this was at a time when I was looking after mum and I needed to “fill up my own cup” so that I could do this well).  I called my project for the year 60 Nice

Written by Maggie McGrane December 17, 2019January 4, 2020

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Living out of a suitcase

As my regular readers will have noticed, I haven’t blogged for a while.  Partly this is because my mother died in the summer and I just couldn’t face putting this fact into writing for the world to read about.  I felt bereft.  I felt that my reason for living in the UK no

Written by Maggie McGrane December 16, 2019January 4, 2020

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Finding Joy

Something I’ve noticed recently is that a few of my favourite EdTech bloggers have branched out into blogging about different things.  For example Colin Gallagher is now writing a travel blog (Surprising Horizons) and Chris Betcher has been trying trying a different religion every month t

Written by Maggie McGrane May 4, 2019January 4, 2020

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Optimism is boundless

I haven’t blogged for a while.  It’s not as if nothing has happened, it’s simply that in the daily routine of things I haven’t found sufficient time to reflect on what I’ve been doing.  I’ve been visiting my mum of course – and in January and Febru

Written by Maggie McGrane March 26, 2019January 4, 2020

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The importance of reflection in learner agency

In the past few PYP workshops I’ve led, both face to face and online, I’ve been asked about why reflection has been removed as one of the key concepts.  The reason I’ve given is that reflection is fully integrated within the learning process, and interwoven with other aspects

Written by Maggie McGrane January 31, 2019January 4, 2020

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What should teachers know?

Last summer I was reading an article by Daniel T. Willingham entitled Unlocking the Science of How Kids Think.  The author argued that many teachers are unaware of the latest findings about how children think and learn, in particular he cited studies showing that many teachers erroneously belie

Written by Maggie McGrane January 28, 2019January 4, 2020

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Technology in the PYP: fostering multiliteracies

I’m preparing for a workshop about technology in the PYP that will take place in Doha next month, and so I’m digging deep into the new digital resource recently published by the IB PYP: From principles into practice.  The technology section of this resource begins with describing th

Written by Maggie McGrane January 28, 2019January 4, 2020

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Cockney in the country

I was born in London and spent my first 18 years living in the “big city” and then, when I went off to university, chose to study at the “northern powerhouse” of Leeds.  Most of my life I’ve lived in cities – I’ve enjoyed them for the culture, the busyn

Written by Maggie McGrane December 14, 2018January 4, 2020

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