So many great people to catch up with! There’s no students back yet, just plenty of meetings and classroom organisation.
Introductions and getting-to-know-you up at the Early Learning Centre. The design of the building is a little like the Aussie ABC sign with break-out rooms coming from each of the three spaces. Very creative! You can [...]
Due to a request for images of ordinary things in Baku, you are about to be deluged.
Just a view close to home on the way to school this morning.
Further up the road by 100m.
Does that name ring a bell?
Some language seems to be universal.
imperialismə yox - imperialism no
These last two were taken as I passed [...]
I arrived in Dubai around 2am and was lucky enough to find a stretcher in the “Quiet Lounge” where I guess I slept for two hours. That probably meant I had around 8 hours sleep over the previous 24 hours - my body didn’t quite believe it however.
This is a crap photo but it shows [...]
Tags: Baku · holidays · school
After all this time here’s some current data on The International School of Azerbaijan where I teach.
The school is organised into three sections:
The Baku Toddler Club (Age 2) - 35 children
The Primary School (ages 3-10) - 350 students
Secondary School (ages 11-18) - 200 students
Over 48 nationalities are represented in the total enrollment.
TISA has 63 full [...]
Tags: Azerbaijan · Baku · school
I’m increasingly convinced that the most important things my grade 5 students learn do not include subject content. I reckon it does include attitudes, conflict management, time-management, self-confidence, seeing themselves as learners… That’s not to discount the value of curriculum, but learning to learn and gaining life-skills are probably even more important.
Last year we had [...]
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