A new book On Teaching: For New Graduates by star teacher Bianca Hewes is out. As a teacher educator I have followed Bianca’s career for many years. She has contributed generously to research studies I have conducted in schools; we have presented keynote addresses together at national edtech conferences, she has shared her wisdom with…
In April 2022 Emerald Publishing invited me to write a piece for their Opinion and Blog pages*. The post features the blueprint for High Possibility STEM Schools. There are TEN directions in the blueprint and each one is defined by a substantive outline based on data from research. Have a look – there is more…
In today’s news media a story is running about the continued decline in young people choosing to study mathematics into the final years of school – especially declining numbers in the more challenging courses. NewsRadio ABC contacted me and here are a few thoughts on how this trend might be reversed. No quick fixes here…
The ‘creative memo’ in the image on this blog post features keywords and phrases from the High Possibility Classrooms (HPC) workshop held with 16 teachers at the end of STEM research in five low SES schools. The terms “professional”, “important work”, and “students” were repeated responses. Research at these sites focused on practitioner inquiry using…
In June 2022 my colleague Dr Darrall Thompson, Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney will deliver a mini-keynote titled: Colouring New Assessment Futures at the Assessment in Higher Education Conference in Manchester, UK. Darrall worked in the UK for 15 years as a Designer and Design Educator, and as he says this experience…
I will come to the parent part in a moment. The phrase planning hard to teach easy is an expression I first heard my doctoral supervisors use in their classroom research in schools more than a decade ago*. The more I understand teaching practice and deep thoughtful classroom learning planning hard to teach easy is…
