A Child’s World and Language Learning
Young children develop language in order to make sense of their world through a process of inquiry. In order to support our children to...
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Damian Rentoule
- Jun 21, 2020
- 1 min
Transferred posts & a wave or two
As I have only recently opened this website, most of the blog posts below have been transferred over from my original blog, Principal...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
Just keep paddling
After some time in the water yesterday morning, I thought I’d share a few reflections on life using seven images that I had the...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
We decide who we see in the mirror tomorrow.
(Image: Me, on the right with a green shirt that says, ‘Here comes trouble’. I had just started Grade 1 which meant, in the early 70s at...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
A few notes on ‘3 of Me’ – an upcoming project by @AmyBurvall
(Image: My old friend Soba, responsible for takeaway number three. I loved our walks.) I was recently asked by the inspirational...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
Creativity requires us to cultivate our procrastination, not reject it.
(Image: Me, roughly 15 years after learning to write. Just finished a degree in English Literature. All dressed up and nowhere to go,...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
You have to walk the dog.
(Image: Me, 40 years since I walked into my Grade 1 classroom not knowing an A from a B. Having learnt a few lessons along the way and...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
A wooden brain
(Image: A human brain, of sorts. Beautiful shot by @amyburvall.) What does the image represent to me in an educational context? A...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Enthusiasm & Engagement
(Image: A house holding her story. Image, with appreciation:http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1-HorseChestnut-Hist...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Wild meat, bully burgers & honest advice
Students received some very honest advice last week from Lois-Ann Yamanaka, prominent contemporary Hawaiian author. As a former English...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Intellectual Risk: What tethers us?
One of the ten International Baccalaureate (IB) Learner Profile attributes is Risk-taker. As we know that our brains react to both...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
True Beauty
(Image: Self portrait by Abbie Rentoule) The image above is one of my favorite pieces or art, a self-portrait by my wonderful younger...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
Thinking multilingual
(Image: When a building is not just a building. Words are like this.) Our basic unit of meaning is the word. Each word matches an image...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Lessons learned on the bikes
It was a 450km cycling trip over 6 days, camping along the way. I accompanied the group of 6 high school students and 3 teachers for the...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
Patterns in conversations and what they can teach us
(Image: Going further with your conversations. These two questions are posed to an Early Childhood 3&4 year-old class at Hiroshima...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
What me I’ll be?
(Image: I never would have thought that part of the ‘me I’ll be’ would involve raising chickens, among other surprises along the way.)...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Love, Respect & the Legitimacy of a Child’s World
(Image: ‘To have respect for children is more than recognizing their potentialities in the abstract.’The Hundred Languages of...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
A lesser place in your absence…
(Image: A surfer at Sunset Beach, Hawaii – not quite making it over. The waves would break just as well, even if she wasn’t there. Life...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
Procrastination and the magic of ‘otherness’
(Image: Look at your reading selection. These happened to be sitting on my desk as I was writing. It’s an indication of the range of...
Damian Rentoule
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
The mystery of identity
(Image: How much do we choose to reveal?) This hauntingly beautiful creature gave me a bit of a fright last summer on a trip to Australia...
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