I have been thinking about the different learning styles that I have viewed over the years as a primary teacher. Just for fun I decided to give them animal names. Can you spot yourself or one of your pupils in this list? The ‘Cheetah This student completes all class work at speed, everything is done, […]
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It’s National Assesment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) week here in Australia. For those of you overseas what this has meant for my class is the following: On Tuesday they had a 40 […]
It was exactly a year ago that I wrote these words. My classroom was designed and built around eight years ago. Oh good I hear you say, it must be […]
It’s 5.30pm and I am in recovery mode after the first ever Sydney TeachMeet. From the moment that @2sparkley and her Newcastle colleagues walked in at 9:30am to the moment […]
In the space of two weeks I have presented at two virtual conferences. I wonder if this is the way more conferences will go? I know that at RSCON3 I […]
A Teacher’s Job Description
I was reflecting this morning about all the roles I play as a teacher. It made me think again about my classroom menagerie post and the different ‘animals’ I teach. These are some of the ‘jobs’ I have completed recently. How many do you regularly find yourself doing? Psychologist: Coping with the sometimes sneaky but […]