Thinkquest
Back row fltr W. Handel(Coach) ; Isaac Southgate ; C.Hendricks(Principal)
H.Otto(ELSEN educator)
Front row C.Gain(Assistant Coach) ; Annika Thomas ; Shirika Hendricks ;
Jonnica Lucas ; Lynmor Matroos ; Lynn Andrews
Students, ages 9-19, form a team and recruit a teacher to act as coach. Once the coach enrolls the team, students work together to create an innovative website on any topic within a broad range of educational categories
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes.
Spurwing Primary entered an under 15 team and designed a website on Barriers to Learning. This website was evaluated by a group of international judges and published on the thinkquest library for learners , teachers and parents worldwide to use as an resource. This website was nominated as the second best (under 15) in South Africa.
Back row fltr W. Handel(Coach) ; Isaac Southgate ; C.Hendricks(Principal)
H.Otto(ELSEN educator)
Front row C.Gain(Assistant Coach) ; Annika Thomas ; Shirika Hendricks ;
Jonnica Lucas ; Lynmor Matroos ; Lynn Andrews
Students, ages 9-19, form a team and recruit a teacher to act as coach. Once the coach enrolls the team, students work together to create an innovative website on any topic within a broad range of educational categories
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes.
Spurwing Primary entered an under 15 team and designed a website on Barriers to Learning. This website was evaluated by a group of international judges and published on the thinkquest library for learners , teachers and parents worldwide to use as an resource. This website was nominated as the second best (under 15) in South Africa.
Innovative Teachers South Africa
In the context of a teacher's school, learners or other circumstances the notion of innovation can have different meanings. A teacher in a school with few resources or large class sizes, say, can be said to be innovative if they achieve something that might be considered modest and normal in a school rich in resources or tiny class sizes. Context is everything.
Innovative actually means new but it does not mean new in an absolute sense. It especially does not necessarily mean highly technical. Innovation must be contextualised. Innovative means creative, different and new to the people involved.
The Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum is all about sharing practice so Leading Innovation Practice needs to demonstrate that it is effective in a wide arena.
My Grade 7 Natural Science project was evaluated and found to be one of the top innovative projects in South Africa. I will have to present this project at the Microsoft office in Gauteng on the 20th and 21st of August 2008 where teachers will be selected to represent South Africa at the World Innovative Teachers Forum in Thailand in November. Faeeza khanya East facilitator
2 comments:
I would like also to see the article of Khanyolwethu Sec on this blog. It was suppose to be in the Khanya news magazine already.When school's requests things we should do it promptly to get their support and cooperation.
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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