In the classroom

To round out last year, my colleague and I cranked out a unit of learning based on Rick Riordan 's Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief . W...

For one of my M.Ed topics I had to create a video that tells the story of the role of ICT in contemporary education.  Considering the time t...

I don't know about you, but I can't remember a time when reading wasn't an integral part of my life.  It isn't somethin...

If anybody ever suggests working full time whilst trying to study full time, the only correct response should be to laugh. Don't do it! ...

Something you often hear, these days, is that we want our students to think like a writer , or a   scientist , a  mathematician, or even a...

The material is licensed by  ACARA  under  CC BY 4.0 . I need to start this post with a quick introduction to the  Australian curriculum...

Anyone who's known me over the last couple of year has probably noticed my habit of spending at least a couple of days of each school h...

I challenged a group of year 5/6s to, in ten tweets, create a personal profile. Aside from a quick discussion about the meaning of the word...

Created on recite.com How often have you heard the phrase " the best way to really learn something is to teach it to someone else...

The other day I taught a lesson about simple division and factors to a class of year 5/6s. It wasn't particularly noteworthy, no firewor...

I can't be sure but I'm fairly confident in making the assumption that ALL classes love art. My memory of art at primary school was ...

I've mentioned, I think, that we're learning about Ancient India at the moment. It's one of our Ancient World depth studies as o...