October 2011
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Don't date a girl who reads
By Charles Warnke
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly.
Take her...
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
7 posts
Relaxation Scripts →
teachingtoday:
I use this website a lot for resources, but I love the inclusion of ways to help you and your students relax for tests.
I found that doing breathing/relaxation exercises with my hyperactive year 8s on first prac really helped them settle and focus. You only need 5 minutes. Might be a good idea with exams coming up…I’m going to try some of these with my year 11 and...
soak it in: Advice from a student teacher to... →
lhuddles:
Disclaimer: In my student teaching experience, we called our cooperating/coordinating teachers our “mentor teachers.” Terms will be used interchangeably here.
So…the other side of the fence. Well, I haven’t been on that side just yet (how many sides to this fence are there? Student…student…
I couldn’t agree more, although I’ve been very lucky to have always had...
AWOL
I’m currently completing my last ever practicum placement and as such have been ridiculously busy gathering resources, planning lessons, reading up on the units I’m teaching and trying to memorise over 100 students’ names. I feel extremely lucky to have been given a placement in what is pretty much my dream school, and have been working really hard to make a lasting impression,...
Performance pay →
Australia’s Prime Minister today announced a scheme to reward the nation’s top teachers with pay bonuses, among other educational reforms. Click the link to read.
I just want to clarify that I don’t necessarily agree with the sentiments in any of the articles I post here. I think they are a good starting point for debate (as can often be seen in the comments section of an...
teacher-girl:
“I tell this to everybody, especially to first-year teachers: If you’re going to be strict and have high expectations for your students, then you also have to make sure they want to be in the classroom, that they enjoy being around you, they respect you, and they’re having fun in there. If you are too strict, the kids will rebel. And if you try too hard to get them to like you,...
April 2011
7 posts
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Where for !Art! Thou, Piaget?: Hi! →
artthoupiaget:
I’m finishing up my second year as an art education major, and it’s been a blast so far. I can’t wait to start teaching. I also figured that now would be a good time to start up a little blog to record my experiences. It should be kinda neat. :D
So maybe I’ll kick it off with a question to the…
Do you use rubrics in art? I’m an English/history teacher so I...
Should we sack (fire) bad teachers? →
Christopher Bantick, a senior English teacher at Trinity Grammar School in Victoria, argues that like any other profession, we should be able to remove teachers who demonstrate consistently poor performance.
This resource provides some useful strategies for... →
Everyday Ramny: What are some things that your... →
everydayramny:
tamaradale said:
She encouraged me to cultivate my strong points! She taught me that classroom management was about having a relationship with the students. Also, she let me set the mood by stepping out at the start, and then returning. I loved practicum!
revolutionizeed said:
I especially like the point about teacher not giving their opinions on students. Click the link to...
“Let us not take away
the dreams of children –
let them ride...”
– Nan Whitcomb (Nanushka), Believe in the Dream
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It starts...
Despite the wealth of teaching related blogs, there are very few with an Antipodean focus. This is my small but hopefully not insignificant contribution - education with an Australian flavour. I’m a final year B.Ed student specialising in English and history. I have a penchent for technology, especially anything Apple. I love music and incorporate it into my lessons whenever I can. I also...
