Reflecting on MERGA: Research impacting practice
This blog is a snapshot of some of the paper presentations and key notes I attended during the MERGA42 conference in Perth.
Talking about tutoring
In light of last week’s SMH article by Jordan Baker regarding private tutoring, I thought this would be a good opportunity to expand on some of the current thinking and discourse surrounding this topic. Being ‘for’ or ‘against’ tutoring is not the ultimate focus for this blog. In fact, as with many aspects of education, it…
Reflecting on MANSW ‘Breaking the mathematical drought’
In this week’s blog I’m reflection on the Mathematics Association of NSW (MANSW) Riverina Cluster conference that I attended in Wagga on Saturday.
Reflections on “It’s not all about coding”
In this week’s blog I’m reflecting on a webinar I attended last week “Digital Technologies: It’s not all about coding” hosted by the CSIRO and lead by Professor Tim Bell.
Getting reasoning right: Reflections on PAM conference 2019
Missed MANSW’s Primary And Middle years K-8 conference on Saturday? Here are some reflections of the day.
New year, new ideas, new perspectives
2019 – new year, new ideas, new perspectives. There will be some retreads and updates of oldies but goodies in everyone’s practice. And we can predict there will be a comeback for some of the repeatedly discredited same old same olds. There are ideas and mantras that keep turning up like uninvited guests. They have…
Reflecting and Pondering
This will be our last blog week for 2018! We wish all teachers, educators and their families a happy holiday and we hope you all get a well-deserved rest. We will be adding up some resource and courses over January so look out for new items and keep coming back to the site to see what’s…
How are we going to manage talking and listening?
Talking and listening in the classroom is really the bread and butter of what we do as teachers and learners. While we, the formal assessors, together with the world at large (including parents), might value the written word over talk, and certainly accept the written word for evidence of learning (appropriately constructed, of course), it…
Thinking about Context Part 2: Writing the Future
The voices and ideas of the teachers, academics, writers and children at PETAA’s ‘Professional Learning Intensive’ “Writing the Future” radiated from the ‘pages’ of their presentations.
Investing in ourselves as teachers – Professional Associations
The importance of investing in ourselves as teachers was one of the main messages from the NESA online professional development…