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Professional Learning
I attended an ACER conference last week, rubbing shoulders with principals and leaders from a wide variety of school. I was reminded of how important such a day can be. Such a day focuses my thoughts...
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Professional Learning. – notes
I mentioned in my last post that I attended an ACER professional learning day on Professional Learning last week. What follows is a collection of some of my notes from the day. They may be a bit...
View ArticleMiddle Years Blogs
OK… so I said I was going to have a holiday. The reality is, I’m sitting at my desk at school tidying up a bunch of things. But that is the life of a teacher, isn’t it? Holidays are rarely times...
View ArticlePrac teacher in the room…
I don’t tend to have too many prac teachers visit my class now that I do not have a full teaching load but I have started this term with a second year Secondary English student teacher and it is...
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Post Conference Post
The MYSA conference finished this afternoon and I feel like I have had two days of stuffing information into my brain. I love attending conferences like this but it seems to take many days of...
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Tweets
I have just joined the world of twitter. Yeah, I know, that is not monumental news. But it has been an interesting toe-in-the-water experience for me. I don’t follow too many people and neither do I...
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Coffee & Counselling – Professional Learning
When you finish growing, you’re finished. ** I read this quote recently and it resonated with me for I am a firm believer in constant and ongoing professional learning. But let me clarify that I...
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Every Kid Needs a Champion
I have written before, in several contexts, about the need for teachers to teach relationally, especially for the adolescent learner. My Head of School showed this TED talk recently and I love it....
View ArticleMaking my world bigger
14 weeks is a heck of a long time, but it has been that long since I last sat at my desk at school and, today, I am back here trying to get my thoughts together in preparation for the onslaught of the...
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APCAS Conference & School Camps
Yes I am! And I’m really excited about it, partly because I am going to Singapore (I’ve only every seen the inside of the airport there) and partly because it is shaping up to be a great...
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