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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:11:45 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      New Mailing List for Teachers (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 16:29:37 +1000
From: "CHANDLER, PAUL" <chandlerac@brt.deakin.edu.AU>
Subject: New Mailing List for Teachers

Attention teachers ... announcement of a new mailing list.

Re-distribution of this information is encouraged.

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                       GLITTER STARTS TO SHINE

In Melbourne, Australia, there has been considerable interest in recent years
in developing teachers' skills in promoting metacognition in their own
learning - metacognition refering to knowledge, awareness and control of one's
own learning.

To put it colloquially - teachers have been concerned that their students are
too much like sponges.

A few years ago, PEEL (Project to Enhance Effective Learning) began.  PEEL
essentially takes the form of cross-curricular groups of teachers in a school
participating in action research to assist one another in the development of
teaching strategies which promote metacognition in their students.  It's been a
great sucess.

There is now a tertiary equivalent of PEEL called GLITTER - Good Learning in
Tertiary Teacher Education and Research.

A group of teacher educators from a number of institutions have got together to
discuss issues and share ideas and experiences about teaching at the tertiary
level.  We are from different backgrounds, and involved in both primary and
secondary pre-service and in-service teacher education.  Our monthly meetings
are stimulating and energizing as we talk about what we are teaching.

A GLITTER mailing list has been established because:
        1) The monthly meetings have been so stimulating that we have hardly
wanted to go home - so why not "keep talking" electronically between meetings
        2) We thought that there would be others elsewhere in Australia and in
the rest of the world who would be interested, but not able to attend the
meetings.

To subscribe to the GLITTER mailing list,

        send a message to
                listserv@brt.deakin.edu.au

        the body of the message should read
                SUBSCRIBE GLITTER your_first_name your_last_name

To contribute a message to the GLITTER mailing list,

        send it to
                GLITTER@brt.deakin.edu.au

The GLITTER mailing list is also being gated into FidoNet, though no widely
distrbuted.  Most Victorian (Australia) schools only have access to FidoNet
(K12net), so we hope that, given time, the above mailing list may develop into
a vital discussion forum for all teachers interested in promoting metacognitive
strategies in their students.

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The GLITTER group was formed by

John Baird, the University of Melbourne
            Melbourne, Australia
            co-establisher of the PEEL project

Caroline Smith, Deakin University (Rusden Campus)
                Melbourne, Australia
                formerly a PEEL teacher.

For electronic information, contact Paul Chandler of Deakin University (Rusden
Campus) - chandlerac@brt.deakin.edu.au
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