In the classroom

One of our most basic human needs is belonging . It's not the most basic - that would be wi-fi these days - but it's right up there....

I spent less than 5 minutes in my classroom today. For most of the day I was within ten metres of our main door but I didn't go in.  No ...

A learning space at  ASMS Another one of the opportunities I've taken this year has been a 5 day course about teaching science in th...

One of the exciting opportunities I've taken this year has been to train as a SMART Practice Trainer through a programme auspices by the...

Some lessons just work well don't they?  A few weeks back I had one such lesson that I came home and raved about to my husband.  His re...

Our current unit of learning in maths requires my young people to work with time. Our pre-assessment showed that many of them have somehow ...

We've been delving in descriptive writing over the last little while. We've looked at poems - even written a couple; but have focuss...

So... I'm sitting in a  @DanHaesler workshop working with my colleagues from #hackhameastp s to accrue points in a gamified mission to ...

Follow me at  @markeetarp Or my class at  @the67vrps Do you tweet? I, personally, tweet and so does my class . I can't say I'm...

My school is part of a pilot project aligned with the South Australian Teaching for Effective Learning  (TfEL) Framework. We're looking...

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in Australia. It's not our celebration. We do however tend to jump on any ol' bandwagon tha...

This was taken just a few minutes after we realised that they'd hatched. The clutch of eggs on which our duck was sitting recently h...

A few days ago I blogged about composite classes ( here ). I really enjoy the challenges associated with composite classes but I don't a...