Investing in our profession
Investing in our profession by joining a professional organisation makes sense. We want increased credibility as teachers, we want the world to understand the expanding complexities of the teaching process…
Investing in our profession by joining a professional organisation makes sense. We want increased credibility as teachers, we want the world to understand the expanding complexities of the teaching process…
Finding appropriate resources and lesson ideas for the mathematics classroom can be one of the many challenges for both beginning and experienced teachers.
It seems ridiculous to have to state that one of the most important investments we can make as teachers is in our students. Stating the obvious, one would think. Maybe so …
“Don’t staple on a thin veil of real-world” – Sage advice from the amazing Dan Meyer whose workshop session…
The importance of investing in ourselves as teachers was one of the main messages from the NESA online professional development…
Missed hearing Eddie Woo speak at MANSW? Here is the second of three reflection blogs on the MANSW annual conference that took place on 14th to 16th September.
A reflection on NESA’s My Teaching Impact PL that was broadcast as a live webinar panel discussing current issues in teaching.
Missed hearing Dan Meyer speak at MANSW? Here is the first of three reflection blogs on the MANSW annual conference that took place on 14th to 16th September.
Reading for inference, inferential thinking, begins well before children are required to draw meaning from written and visual texts at school. This type of thinking, making inferences about our world, is used all the time by everyone. We learn to make considered – and often not quite so considered – judgements and assumptions about people,…
Does a cylinder have edges? This is a question I have been asked before, and many more questions like it regarding shapes and objects. Once again, it was up for debate last week in a Facebook group of which I’m a member. It was encouraging to see so many teachers talking about mathematics.