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...

Post PD Reflection by Markeeta Roe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Based o...

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...

It's no great secret that I'm a bit of a learning junkie so it won't come as a surprise to anyone that I've been a wee bit e...

For all that teaching is a high social role, it is not without its fair share of isolation. Perhaps more than its fair share? We spend most ...

I'm super tardy in posting this update on my book week QR Code Trail (the original post is here ). Sorry! All I can say is that during b...

Tomorrow signals the start of Book Week 2015 .  Our school has a whole pile of fun events planned - including a fancy dress parade on Thursd...

One of the ways I like to learn about what's going on in other teachers' heads/rooms/offices is through attending teachmeets. Teac...

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....

Yesterday I spent the first official day of the school holidays at a  TfEL  professional development day about  Effective Learning for All ...

Remember my mentor sentence from yesterday? I have slipped the surly bonds of earth   a nd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. A...

In the words of a dear friend: " I do, very much, love my job. You are challenged, inspired, frustrated, intrigued, entertained, flus...