Life Round Here: Lesson One

We’re a little bit behind over here in Bangkok, but we got a great start to Chris Craft’s Life ‘Round Here project today! The cool thing about this project is that our students are currently doing a unit on adaptation. They’ve studied different cultures around the world and how they’ve adapted to change, which makes…

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Collaboration Idea No. 3: Creating a "Flat Classroom"

One of the fabulous teachers from my previous post was so enthusiastic about collaborating with other schools that we started planning our very own “flat classroom” project today! Mary is a fellow new teacher here at ISB and she has been doing some amazing things with our Smart Boards already this year (not to make…

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Collaboration Idea No. 2: Collaborative Book Reviews

One of our school goals for this school year is reading. As a school we are focusing on developing a love of reading in our students and evaluating our teaching practices to ensure that our students are meeting their expected learning results with reading. So, I was very excited to read Wes Fryer’s recent post…

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Instant Collaboration Request: International Peace Day

This Friday, September 21st is International Peace Day and one of our fourth grade teachers, Scott, would like to bring a global perspective into his classroom. We hope you and your class can help! Scott has written a post on his classroom blog requesting that students and teachers around the world comment on what peace…

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