RSSMixhttp://www.rssmix.com/This feed was created by mixing existing feeds from various sources.en-gb http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/6WVSlxvFveg/Sun, 24 May 2009 05:35:04 -0500I’m currently reading Mindset, by Carol S Dweck (soon to be appearing at the Scottish Learning Festival!). In a nutshell, her thesis is this:Everyone has one of two basic mindsets. If you have the fixed mindset, you believe that your talents and abilities are set in stone – either you have them or you don’t. [...]83263d4b729946fcce7bdf8a32b5fd27 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/LoUQH1RC05E/Sun, 24 May 2009 04:56:19 -0500I spent last Wednesday interviewing for a new ftp member of the maths department. We had a great set of interviewees and I would have been delighted to have almost all of them in our team.10 years ago I decided to move on from Newbattle High School, and began applying for other teaching jobs in [...]84f7b95568090d44959b8e1c9dbc9c3d http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/rHRceAED70I/Fri, 15 May 2009 08:35:07 -0500As maths departments across the country consider how to deliver a Curriculum for Excellence, we are all looking at potentially useful resources on the Web.Let’s not do that job hundreds of times over in isolation. Let’s do it together in a way that enables us to build on each other’s discoveries, and refine our [...]fcf53e4162b770c8b964b797b4e91a55 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/Ku1xH_NZiQc/Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:28:29 -0500Come August I will be leading the maths department at North Berwick High School. In preparation for this, I am reflecting upon what my core values really are. I have just begun this process, but already one value stands out very clearly:Every young person coming into our department should be valued, respected and nurtured by [...]6648136681c97a12b0a7eee46c709f13 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/uuHQhWrJvvo/Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:52:39 -0500As many of you may already know, I was successful last week in my application to become the next Principal Teacher of Mathematics at North Berwick High School. I am absolutely delighted, and can’t wait to get started.The vacancy arose as a result of the approaching retirement of my current PT, Simon Smith. It has [...]b2c27d6979d996d309bcfdf48aaf2840 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/bszfQc8WBxQ/Sun, 1 Mar 2009 06:31:03 -0600All Webs are not equal. My Web is very different from the Internet of the majority of teachers (yours probably is too).My Web delivers pretty much all the new stuff from all the sites that interest me to a single page set up to make it very easy for me to see at a glance [...]b06c5080c7cb3293d82e4deb2f653f2b http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/g1Xm_MA38_g/Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:38:00 -0600Amongst the students who spend time in the support base at school, Coconut Run has become very popular recently. This story won’t make much sense unless you have had a go at Coconut Run! One of the aforementioned students comes to work in the maths staff base sometimes with a support assistant, and I have [...]797c321646e38bb3e00da61597e452f4 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/olRZxDMZ4dg/Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:12:42 -0600We set by ability in S2, and my S2 class is a small set of the least able students.This week we were doing the old “join the dots” investigation from Standard Grade which looks at how you can generate circular patterns from simple formulas using modular arithmetic. They completed the bits I had intended [...]0225b36d2f7015fbe298430000a7eac6 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/LQtBVdeS4jk/Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:57:13 -0600It has been a long time since my last blog post. There are many things I could have written about: developing an application on Google Appengine service running a school ski trip mandolin trivia researching my father’s experiences in WW2 supporting (and learning from) student teachers and probationers pondering applying for a PT job [...]0403661b2bb1a6d66d6fd53714a77735 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonesieblog/~3/diglfXgiHEc/Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:02:49 -0600Here’s a wordle from all the blog posts listed in the Scotedublogs rss feed:7da36150f702c6ebe49316a626316815