The Maths Dept runs four after school classes, two on Monday and two on Tuesday.  All classes are optional.  Students come that need help in...

There are many ways to motivate students to learn.  A common way is to provide extrinsic reward - "the bribery model".  This is a ...

Now that the majority of government schools are either independent or becoming independent public schools, the rush is on for schools to exa...

Developing strategic thinking in students is an emerging issue.  Living in a world of instant gratification, the ability to think is less pr...

Any long time reader knows that I am a big critic of scheduled professional development days..  Most tend to be filled with administrative t...

Many of us have bad memories about proofs in the classroom and learned to switch off whenever they arrived.  After all, they were never asse...

The last day of term was a lot of fun.  The praccies wound up their classes and went off into the wide world.  Students went off for break.....

I've thought for a long time that we fail to appreciate that there are a range of teachers required in education as different teaching s...