Leigh in Azerbaijan

(When I preview this it’s in large text with no explanation.  Sorry!)
This started as a belated response to blogger Suz01 from one of my posts a while back.  I figured I would post it here as well as it was one of those obvious, yet not so obvious ‘Ah-ha’ moments.
We’ve started a new year here [...]

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This post appears over at Blogging Corner at Edna (South Australia).
Thanks to A.U.S.S.I.E. Literacy Consultant friend Leslie in New York, I’ve just learnt about Brian Cambourne’s Seven Conditions of Learning.  Here is a Google collection of articles on the topic.
Here is the url for the summary below for young students.

Immersion
Infant and young children need [...]

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Here’s my summary of research-based Principles of Learning, from a section of one of my current M.Ed readings.  I’ve made a poster that I may display in the classroom for all the learners there – that includes me.
1. Role of time, effort, and motivation
To become an expert takes a long time – perhaps 5 to [...]

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Life here is fundamentally different than back home with the attitude to animals.  Wild cats and dogs roam the city but very few keep them as pets. They are always thin and sickly. On the road to school there are several packs of dogs that are seen on the bus each morning, some limping, all [...]

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“Two hand grenades exploded at a mosque in Baku on Sunday, killing three and injuring 10 others. The mosque serves, predominantly, followers of Wahhabism.” – AzerNews.az
We are reassured that there is no threat to ex-pats living in Baku, but this doesn’t make you feel comfortable. There was a briefing that came from the BP office [...]

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