Attaining your first full-time teaching position in a school in NSW is not easy. Too many graduate teachers not enough vacancies and therefore destined for terms or years of casual or temporary positions in schools are some of the common
TeachMeet: Placing teachers in the box seat of professional learning
The title of this post was from a comment Brett Salakas made to me after yesterday evening’s #TMgegsyd (stands for TeachMeet Google Educators Group Sydney). He added: “We ask students to have agency over their own learning so TeachMeet is
To game or not to game that is the question?
This is the second post to feature a teacher from the field – this time a teacher friend of mine from the USA. I first met Steve Isaacs at the SITE conference in Jacksonville in March 2014. Often the tech
The good teacher
The Irish Times on April 7 this year published part of an edited paper by Associate Professor Dympna Devine on education research conducted for the Teaching Council on what traits make a “good teacher”. You can access the article here
Teachers in schools should remain learners
On the HPC blog I intend to invite practising teachers to share what’s on their mind in teaching. This month I would like to feature Jackie and a conversation I had with her about why she works hard to remain
Making must be about a can–do mindset, pedagogy and content
Last Saturday I attended the ICTENSW Conference at Sydney University – it is the first time I have attended this professional learning activity. Stimulating. Not just because of the nature of the presentations but also it was a chance for
High Possibility Classrooms: a new model for technology integration in schools
This post is dedicated to my parents, Patrice and Noel, and to Anna who all had great passion for education and sadly passed away in 2014*. On the 5 March Sir Ken Robinson gave the first annual Anna Craft memorial
Doodles from Amanda Hogan
This graphic was doodled by the amazing Amanda Hogan at the #ICTENSW conference on Saturday 14 March at Sydney University. Amanda pens these great graphics while she listens to speakers. She did one when I was sharing my new book
What is on Medium?
In this first post I have added links to short articles on Medium written in the past few months. The topics range across an introduction to High Possibility Classrooms, inquiry-based learning, teaching code in schools, history and geography in the