This is the twelfth part of my Reflection Series – a self-reflection of my year teaching in the UK. What was the most valuable thing you learned this year? I keep coming back to this same point, so I guess it’s…
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This is the eleventh part of my Reflection Series – a self-reflection of my year teaching in the UK. In what ways were you helpful to your colleagues this year? I like to think I was helpful to my colleagues…
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This is the ninth part of my Reflection Series – a self-reflection of my year teaching in the UK. When was a time this year when you felt joyful and/or inspired about the work that you do? This one is going to…
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This is the sixth part of my Reflection Series – a self-reflection of my year teaching in the UK. What is one way that you grew professionally this year? There are so many ways I grew professionally this year that it…
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This is the tenth part of my Reflection Series – a self-reflection of my year teaching in the UK. What do you hope your students remember most about you as a teacher? That I care. Simple as that.
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I’d like to share something very powerful with you all today. In a previous post I mentioned how a student of mine had written an absolutely incredible poem. Well, she did it again. This time off her own back, purely because…
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Last week our Year 10 Science Extension classes visited the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium and Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens for a specially designed curriculum-expansion day. We had just finished a space unit (which is not given enough curriculum time in my…
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Today I said farewell to some of the first students I ever taught. They have now graduated year 12 and will move on to the big wide world in their newfound freedom as adults. What an emotional roller coaster!
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