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EDITION 54 24th May 2019
The weekly newsletter for the Holyport College family
Mr Hubbard has been accepted as a Google Innovator! The Google Certified Innovator Program is an elite community of more than 1,700 international educators who are trying to transform the world through education. The 12-month experience includes a mentorship, online learning activities and a three-day Innovation Academy where they will collaborate with other educators to launch a transformative project related to a challenge or opportunity they see needed in education. Each year, hundreds of educators apply to be accepted into the six to eight cohorts Google hosts around the world, but only 36 members are selected each time. Mr Hubbard recently applied to be a part of the London 2019 cohort of this program. The project he will spend the next year working on aims to promote ‘reading around a subject’ and to provide tools to enable students to do this more effectively and efficiently. “I studied Mathematics at university and, at that point, fell in love with the subject. I have now been teaching Mathematics for over 10 years and one of the passions that I now have is for the history of Mathematics. I read about this subject a great deal, broadening my understanding of Mathematicians and the cultures in which they worked. This in turn impacts upon the way I teach. In many subjects students are asked to 'read around' the topic they are studying. In my experience, teachers and lecturers can mean very different things when using this phrase. More problematic is the inability of students to do this in an effective and efficient way. At its best, reading around a subject encourages students to broaden their perspectives, encounter new and exciting material and to deepen their love for a subject. Students just need more support in doing so.” Mr. Hubbard also had to create a video as part of his application and he would like to thank those Sixth Form students that helped him to create it.
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