Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Opening doors to the future
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Now, we all get a bit proprietary about our best students. When subject selection comes around we all have a quiet chat with our students ab...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Death of the Twomey Report
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The Twomey report has been a rallying cry for teachers in WA when seeking salary increases. With Lance Twomey speaking in favour of the prop...
Monday, July 28, 2008
Indigenous tutoring
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Today I went to after school tutoring for our indigenous students. One student needed help with deciding classes for next year. Four teache...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
School ranking in WA and the need for small classes
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Low socio-economic areas have the same numbers of bright kids than high socio-economic areas but with many environmental factors affecting t...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Random acts of kindness
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I'm a bit of a schmultz when it comes to feel good movies.. we watched Evan almighty (and I appreciated the CGI and maths components o...
EBA3, WA teachers' pay claim and DET
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Trolling through the blog log I've noticed lots of searching for details on the new EBA. I'm not an expert but the best explanation ...
Setting goalposts for students
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Once upon a time, in a land underneath our feet, students went to school. At the end of year 10 they reached a certain standard and were giv...
Technology in education
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My main criticism of technology in the classroom is that good uses of technology are few and far between. My secondary criticism is that sup...
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