What can I do for YOU?
...'revisions' that totally confused parents, students, teachers...even God herself!This is not how Ziya Hoca does busyness and his...
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tonygurr
- Oct 21, 2017
- 2 min
How to Spot and ‘Nail’ an EDUfraud!
Lucky for us...they very rarely are!8 However, I did not really come up with any suggestions or solutions for how we can 'pop their...
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tonygurr
- May 27, 2013
- 2 min
FIXing Hazırlık...(the Postscript)
Some of you might be thunking...a postscript? What the heck for? 8 That last post gave us so many good best practices to get our teeth...
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tonygurr
- May 25, 2013
- 2 min
FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 03 of 03)
Come on, guys! Give me a break...for crying out loud! 8 I had wanted to stick with Arthur - but my in-box overfloweth...and not with...
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tonygurr
- May 23, 2013
- 4 min
FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 02 of 03)
Start where you ARE. Use what you HAVE. Do what you CAN. If ever there was a recipe (or ‘magic bullet’...even) for ‘fixing’ something...
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tonygurr
- May 12, 2013
- 3 min
Could it be our understanding of 'Quality'...that is BROKEN, perhaps?
This is only natural! Look at all the wonderful communications we find on their web-sites, the messages stuck on the side of buses and...
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tonygurr
- Dec 30, 2012
- 2 min
Why "SMART Goals" are just "plain DUMB"...
...especially for TEACHers heading into... Horrid word!8 But, in practice, many supporters of "goals" also try to flog their wares by...
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tonygurr
- Dec 8, 2011
- 4 min
...and then, do it all again...on TUESDAY morning?
1. Write down the names of all your teachers in the first. 2. Next to their names (in column #2) write down the qualifications they hold...
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tonygurr
- Nov 9, 2011
- 3 min
"Herding Cats" and Change 3.0 (Part 3)
Tolerate "with" me…just a wee bit more. In the last post, I think I finished up asking whether it was, in fact, the questions that...
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tonygurr
- Nov 7, 2011
- 2 min
"Herding Cats" and Change 3.0 (Part 2)
The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Could there be more than a grain of truth in such tongue-in-cheek one-liners? My...
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tonygurr
- Nov 6, 2011
- 3 min
"Herding Cats” and Change 3.0 (Part 1)
Perhaps, I am just more of a “dog kinda person”! Anyways, one day (many, many moons ago) I was fortunate enough to get the chance to...
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tonygurr
- Oct 9, 2011
- 1 min
What is EDUCATIONAL LITERACY? - another DVD Box-Set...
REAL LEARNing I did, of course, link this to the work of Guy Claxton and his call for educators to get busy building up the...
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tonygurr
- Sep 25, 2011
- 1 min
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP – The DVD Box-Set…
Have our Educational Leaders got the “STUFF”? One our very earliest post was very well received – seems it touched a nerve for many of...
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tonygurr
- Sep 12, 2011
- 1 min
Covey on allthingslearing…
One response was quite interesting…” Covey wrote the 7 Habits over 20 years ago – surely his ideas are a bit old-fashioned now!...
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tonygurr
- Sep 3, 2011
- 4 min
Becoming a more emotionally intelligent LEADER...
Care Show respect to all (and say “thank you” more often) Reward people skills Win people over Focus on intangibles Teach, teach, teach...
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tonygurr
- Sep 2, 2011
- 3 min
Emotionally Intelligent LEADership - What can Tony Soprano "LEARN" EDUcators?
I have to admit - loved the show (and James) and wish it had gone on forever!8 I also have a daughter (as you may know) but have never...
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tonygurr
- Sep 1, 2011
- 3 min
From BEST PRACTICE to NEXT PRACTICE…
Help us gain insights into techniques, methods or processes that have proven themselves over time Support institutional efforts to...
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tonygurr
- Aug 30, 2011
- 2 min
Have our Educational Leaders got the “STUFF”?
Besides – Tom’s a cool dude! So, I’m going to take a closer look at “Uncle Tom” and see if he can help us out some more – if that’s OK? ...
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tonygurr
- Aug 30, 2011
- 4 min
Teacher LEARNing: What do we NEED and what can we DO for ourselves?
The educational “culture” (or “educational literacy”) of a country can have a powerful effect on how individual educational leaders and...
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tonygurr
- May 7, 2011
- 11 min
Çay ve Simit – and a bit of education…
Aybike, you have been involved in setting up one of the newer university-level language centres in Turkey. Tell us about a few of the...
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