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...

Coming from a world of litigation prior to teaching, I understand the reticence some have in writing down what you have said.  For many, not...

Today was my first day as Head of Department of our high school.  Six years and a fair bit of work has resulted in a position where I can mo...

I was chosen ("volunteered") to work with students transitioning from year 7 to year 8 this year and needed a hands on lesson to p...

Over the last five years there has been a change in resourcing mathematics.  Once the domain of the textbook and worksheet, increasingly mat...

I had the pleasure of being involved in an interview panel for the first time and realised that interviews in the dept. had much to do with ...

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...