At the bottom of the page are some resources that I have created - feel free to use them....accredit etc.....

From Howard Gardner's book (The Unschooled Mind, 1991).

"Attendance in most schools today does risk ruining the children. Whatever significance schooling might once have held for the majority of youngsters in our society, it no longer holds significance for many of them.
Most students (and, for that matter, many parents and teachers) cannot provide compelling reasons for attending school. The reasons cannot be discerned within the school experience, nor is there faith that what is acquired in school will actually be utilized in the future....Much if not most of what happens in schools happens because that is the way it was done in earlier generations, not because we have a convincing rationale for maintaining it today. The often-heard statement that school is basically custodial rather that educational harbors more than a grain of truth.... "If we are to configure an education for understanding, suited for the students of today and for the world of tomorrow, we need to take the lessons of the museum and the relationship of the apprenticeship extremely seriously. Not, perhaps, to convert each school into a museum, nor each teacher into a master, but rather to think of the ways in which the strengths of a museum atmosphere, of apprenticeship learning, and of engaging projects can pervade all educational environments from home to school to workplace.
The evocativeness and open-endedness of the children's museum needs to be wedded to the structure, rigor, and discipline of an apprenticeship. The basic features I have just listed may assume a central place in educational environments that span the gamut of ages from preschool through retirement and the full range of disciplines."

I really like using Gardner's Multiple Intelligence style learning for Middle School students and the students extend themselves with the tasks.


For English teachers - a unit of work using a Multiple Intelligences and Blooms Taxonomy matrix for the novel
Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman.

For Japanese teachers - a semester unit of work, based on Obentoo 2, designed for Year 9 students.
Obentoo 2 has now been replaced by Obentoo Supreme, but the tasks should still work. They can be adapted to any year level.
For Primary Japanese Teachers - a couple of term units of work. One is based on an integrated study of environment and sustainability that can be used for VELS levels 2, 3 & 4 Just adjust the rubrics accordingly. The other is a unit of work that requires Japanese IME on your computers so the students can create their year book entries and meishi.
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