We all know someone who’s a sceptic. Not in the tin-foil-hat, ‘the moon landing was fake’ sense of the word. Not even in the ‘cynic’ sense of the word. Just more in the way that they like to see things with their own two eyes…
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School life typically revolves around exams, classrooms and instruction based learning. But, is this routine enough for young minds looking for guidance, insight and future direction for their lives.
Read MoreChristina Keeble is an Autistic & ADHD teacher with a Master in Special Education, a background in Psychology and experience working in special education settings since 2003.
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I flip all of my classes. After several years of flipping some of my Mathematics classrooms, I decided at the start of one particular year that I could not justify not flipping the lot.
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Opening lines are important. Some of them are short, like that one, and some are much longer. They carry as much weight as any line in a book because an opening line is our first real impression of a story’s tone.
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I’ve heard it said that boys don’t read, and there might be many who don’t read. It’s been fascinating to see how reading and book clubs have grown over the past few years at Padua.
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Australian primary and secondary schools receiving funding through the NCCD scheme are required to keep records when they adjust or implement a teaching plan at the individual level.
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What comes to mind when you visualise a classroom? The posters on the wall, the chitter chatter of students…
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As the review of the Australian Curriculum is underway, with Digital Technologies and Mathematics being the first subjects in this process, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the opportunities that this review brings.
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You are not imagining it; you are probably overloaded…
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People can be created or destroyed by words, the words you say about others will influence who they become.
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Animals and books have always been intrinsic elements of my life. You could say they’re in my blood.
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Let’s face it. This year has been very difficult not only on the kids but the parents, teachers and admin as well! We have all persevered!
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All the students in my class are exactly the same...said no teacher ever. That's right. Students are different. They look different, they behave in different ways, and they think differently. But it's our job, as teachers, to develop a student’s learning by at least one year (possibly more if we can).
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Same old, same old. Does student writing all seem the same? It can be frustrating – not to mention boring!
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Times are very different at the moment. The world has been turned upside down as a result of COVID-19. Sanitizer, face masks and keeping away from people has become the norm. It’s isolating. It’s lonely
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At the core of it, innovation can be the term to describe something that makes a thing better…..
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Great teachers guide children how to think: not what to think….
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As humans we are designed to think in linear terms. This produces a paradox for educational leaders.
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Genrefication has been a buzzword in school libraries in recent years, though the concept has been around much longer than that.
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