I was talking with a colleague on Friday and conversation returned to online education.  The premise was if online teaching was good enough ...

I've had "One person can make a difference" written on my door for the last nine months.  It's a reminder that much that i...

I have witnessed many wonderful things evolve at our school, but one of the most promising is the development of effective support structure...

Students cannot sit and do nothing in my classes.  It's a fundamental of my classes, something introduced to me by an EA when I first st...

There are always groups of students that are difficult to reach.  Students that do not directly benefit from mathematics in the short term c...

"Low ability" students have always been a bit of an enigma to me.  I put them in quotes, as many times they are not actually low a...

One of the things to consider as a teacher is how isolating the career can be. As someone responsible for 100 students and their individual...

You know.. it would be nice to not make mistakes. It's even better when your mistakes aren't distributed to multiple schools for scr...

n=40 Today in 2C MAT we came across that old chestnut, the Venn diagram with the missing value in the intersection with a number in A, B and...

To find an equivalent fraction of a decimals, one way to explain it is to take the decimal part of the original number and place it over the...

The implementation of national curriculum in WA is fast becoming a farce. It lacks coherent leadership and information is not reaching teach...

WACOT fees have been increased by $6 to pay for increased costs of disciplinary actions and registration costs of teachers to $76 per year. ...

Sometimes long time errors can sneak up on you and beat you over the head. I have avoided the term bar graph for a few years and was under ...

Well, it's been a busy year and playing games has not been high on the agenda.. but for a change I thought I'd write about the coupl...

Today I focused on the performance and ability of year 10 students. I really wanted to know what caused the lack of performance in students ...

Ok research thus far, So for students to succeed in low socioeconomic schools we require the following: a) Parents to encourage students to...

Some students have unrealistic expectations. In the same way that some parents lower the expectations of their students, it does also go th...

I sit here still wondering if I am doing the right thing. A senior school teacher has the world at their feet, being able to teach to year 1...

It's taken half a year but I think the message is sinking in. This week I have focused on getting students to perform to a standard ra...

Teaching is one of those careers where fatigue is a constant enemy. It's important to recognise (especially at this time of year at the ...