This year I was asked to assist the yr 11/12 students with life skills once a fortnight. The idea is to give the students some understanding...

The developmental curriculum has slowed the pace of the curriculum to the desired pace of students. As far as I can tell, the desired pace o...

After a year of trying to establish rapport with middle school I think the obvious is as follows: Without teaching upper school classes and ...

When I was a lad, the last day of school was a day for cleaning the place up. After 12 pm we started cleaning and after cleaning was complet...

Getting kids to see opportunity rather than negativity is a key objective for 2009. As times get more difficult and unemployment rises, it...

One of the issues in classes today that stems from the home is that students have trouble accepting that a teacher has authority in the clas...

Our school has no music programme. Many of our teachers attempt to use music in their learning areas to fill the gap. In English it might be...

I spoke to a colleague about this issue (one of the successful teachers at the school motivating indigenous and low performing/high aptitude...

A worrying trend is seeing high performing indigenous students in year 9/10 fall away in year 11/12. The success of students that buck the t...

The idea that all work done in school ends in assessment narrows the creativity of students. Since I was a lad in school, the amount of crea...

Citation is the bane of free thought. An article is judged as likely truth or mistruth by the amount of items in a reference list. We unco...

Yes, a teacher has a big impact. I maintain that the impact of parents on the net educational result is by far higher. Impact of social netw...

Kids wagging school is not acceptable. I have this conversation with many kids during term especially in the upper class. If a kid truants/i...

I'm sorry, I don't understand how you can expect to succeed without experiencing failure. Students must fail from time to time to ma...

The disjunct between high school and primary school in mathematics has never been greater. Middle schools are finding it increasingly diffic...

Assessment is a key part of teaching - it gives students/teachers/parents feedback on how the teacher and student is doing. Yet, the curricu...

"This is all crap, I'll never do this in real life.." And you know what - for many students this will be absolutely true, in a...

The sad fact is that kids in high school have forgotten the joy of play. Have a look in a playground and actually observe what they are doin...

Many questions are raised as to whether electronic gizmos are required in the classroom. As you can probably tell I'm not a big fan - a...

Kids often say, how come it's so easy on the board but not in the test? I tell my kids in class that there are three stages of learnin...