Managing Anxiety Through Grounding Strategies
1 in 5 males and 1 in 3 females will experience an anxiety condition in their lifetime, according to Beyond Blue 2021. As educators, we don’t need yearly statistics to show us the increase of mental health and wellbeing issues amongst our young people.
Ensuring Extraordinary Outcomes for Young People with Language Disorder
For many decades there has been a lack of agreement regarding how to best describe children presenting with language difficulties (Bishop et al., 2016). This has subsequently led to….
Teacher productivity, does it need to be “hacked”?
As teachers and educators, we know all too well the immense pressure placed upon our time. With the language of school term being a chance to ‘come up for air’ and to push aside the overwhelm, if only for a…
Clever and Quirky: Seeing Through the Mask Part 2
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.’…
Clever and Quirky: Seeing Through the Mask Part 1
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…
Gaming for good: using cooperative video games as tools for supporting neurodiverse children and young adults
Over the past decade there has been a significant shift in how we understand conditions such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Stop blaming teachers: Students are responsible for their learning
William Glasser acknowledges that “there [are] no doubt….some teachers who are more skilful at motivating than [others; however,] there is no teacher, no matter how skilled, who can teach a student who does not want to learn”…
The Messy World of School Assessment
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.
What happened to you? Trauma-informed behaviour support in schools
Schools today are grappling with many complex social issues which can impact negatively on student wellbeing and achievement.
3D Creation and Visualisation for Learning
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.