Comparing the ideal list with the student responses will highlight which aspects of your brand persona are already…
Read More
Connecting with students and getting them to genuinely understand curriculum material is one of the biggest challenges that teachers face. Making a positive impact on your students….
Read More
There are many different aspects to creativity and there is no one definition with which everyone is happy…
Read More“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break and forever to repair”
When you meet someone for the first time, how do you know what they are telling you is truthful?
Read More
In Part 1, the challenges relating to the identification of our twice-exceptional children were discussed, in addition to many strategies which may be effective in supporting the development of the ‘whole child.’…
Read More
It’s just a regular day in your classroom. All your Year 5 students arrive on the bell, greet each other, unpack their schoolbags, sit at their tables, and read their novel…
Read More
Literacy is a vital skill for the 21st century and it is imperative for student mastery of practice that it is embedded across the curriculum. An important aspect of teacher librarianship is to support the development of literacy across the curriculum.
Read More
Life is a journey. Some might say, being a teacher librarian is a life and journey of itself - a lifelong journey. My journey commenced in 2018 and is one I couldn’t have done, let alone start, without my mentors…
Read More
How do you create an engaging, meaningful STEM program? A big question that isn’t so easily answered.
Read More
Learning about and presenting on school assessment is as mad as a bag of hammers, to mix a metaphor. The purpose of assessment in schools is very muddy.
Read More
Over the last two years, boardrooms have become dining tables and classrooms have become bedrooms, as the world shifted to an unprecedented life online…
Read More
We go to the gym to improve our fitness, take short courses to learn new skills, and read books to increase our knowledge, but how often do we pay attention to improving our spatial reasoning skills?
Read More
All too often, many conversations that we have with each other fall short of being built on meaning, purpose and substance. We engage in conversations that not only fail to draw in the person we are speaking to, but also retain their attention for longer than that of 35 seconds.
Read More
Visualising information can be important in learning new concepts, for many students it is necessary to gain a good understanding. This might be an image to set a context or a diagram to help explain function.
Read More
This series of picture story books is a revolutionary approach for educating young children about ‘brain fitness’ and its positive impact on wellbeing
Read More
If like me, you are juggling so many things from day to day, and you often forget what day of the week it is, then there is no better time like the present to stop, take a big deep breathe, and give yourself permission to slow down a little.
Read More
LiteracyPlanet, a comprehensive program which works alongside traditional teaching methods, is seeing encouraging results from school users. Students are seen to build confidence in their literacy skills after using the program, particularly when they’ve started below their grade standard.
Read More