As I was leaving Brisbane this morning after what was a very full Tuesday day at EduTECH 2015 … I was reflecting on a tweet posted by Leanne Cameron from ICTENSW – she called for Australia to find its own Super-Awesome Sylvia out in schools. Or, as I am going to call her, our own…
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 mantras I hear. So, given what I hear, is it still possible to obtain one…
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 a vehicle for teachers to do just that … it places them in the box…
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 subjects Steve writes about catch my attention and I plan to see his classroom/s in…
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 Reading this article was coincidental as I had just returned to my desk from an…
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 a learner in her practice as a primary school teacher*. Before we launch into that…
