There are some big discussions happening at the moment in education.  Australian Curriculum, standardised testing, year 7 transition, public...

Sometimes teaching is about surviving.  Most teachers have war stories about years when it was difficult.  At the moment is one of those tim...

Teaching in a relatively hard to teach school seems to be a place to test the mettle of young would-be teachers.  We get a fair amount, they...

Profiling students is an important part of generating self image and developing student goals.  These goals keep them focused during the dif...

Edmodo is a product that I have used a lot this year.  With continuing use of ICT I have noticed that the effects are often not what is expe...

There are a number of different types of teachers.  Support at critical points in careers make or break teachers.  The availability of this ...

It's been a busy term and everyone is a little frayed.  It's time like this that a school like ours can start to wear on you a littl...

This is the year of web 2.0 usage in the classroom.  Teachers have avoided using technology in the classroom and have stated that the failur...

Last year I was struggling with using laptops in the mathematics classroom with students of significant disadvantage.  I had thousand...

Being of ethnic background, some things are just not nice.  Four senior staff have called me boy in conversation.  Given that I actively see...

I'm finding transition from one position to another is irksome.  We just completed stage two of our IWB rollout, with eight more boards ...

Classes where students are taken out of school for a day and then remain in stage three courses in year 11, in the majority of cases are set...

Nothing like a promotion to bring in the new year.  One of the stranger structures in the public education system is the Teacher in Charge(T...

Today was the fifth and last day of summer school. It's an event we run for students destined for stage 3 maths in year 12. Students be...

A Merry Christmas to all,  may it be filled with joy, children and the gifts that fill your world with love and happiness. Next year promi...

Here is a table that comes from a National Curriculum broadsheet.  It contains some interesting insights. The first is fractions and de...

Five years ago.. I didn't know how to play guitar I didn't own an awful lot of board games I didn't have this blog I didn...

Extrinsic reward point systems often end in probability based rewards to reduce cost.  The more points in for the week, the higher the prob...

Sickness is a constant issue as a teacher.  By the end of term, we're all a bit run down and as soon as the adrenaline cuts out, you ten...

The King is dead.  Long live the King. For those that don't know, WACOT is being repealed and a new Teachers registration board is bei...