Why Are We Letting Ourselves Drown?
Teaching as a profession is in desperate need of an overhaul, but for the sake of the teachers, not the students.
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Planning Can’t Wait
Teaching truly is a job like no other – being responsible for the education of young people, interacting on a meaningful level with up to 200 individual people a day, planning engaging lessons, meeting deadlines from a variety of stakeholders,…
Read More »Private vs Public Chaos Times
I’ve recently made the jump from the public sector to the private sector and have noticed many changes. One was so completely unexpected that it actually made me stop dead in my tracks while walking around my classroom.
Read More »From One Teacher To All Teachers – 100 Thank-You’s
Today is World Teacher’s Day, so I want to put out an appreciation post to all of the wonderful teachers out there.
Read More »Just a Teacher
While out for dinner tonight, there was a lady sitting at a table close to ours. I could hear parts of their conversation, and one phrase struck me to the core. “I’m just a teacher.”
Read More »Returning to Australian Teaching
After a month off travelling around the UK and Europe, it was time to pack up, sell up, and ship home.
Read More »Song Lyrics Every Teacher Can Relate To
Sometimes you hear a song on the radio and the lyrics just resonate with you. Most of these songs have absolutely nothing at all to do with teaching in any possible way, and yet parts of them just fit so…
Read More »The Realities of Being a Teacher
So today I didn’t want to write a post. Originally I did. A fair few things happened since this time last week that I could have easily written about. But I got home, had a shower, watched some Agent Carter…
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