Via Tom Hoffmann‘s shared Reader feed came this post with a statistic that caught my eye. About 80 percent of American teachers, for example, are female; at the elementary school level, nearly 90 percent are women. I wondered what the stat would look like here in South Australia and the nation in general so I [...]
Monthly Archive for February, 2011
As part of our curriculum renewal around the subject of mathematics, we had a pupil free day that brought author of “Teaching Primary Mathematics”, George Booker to our school. As Australian schools move towards the new Australian curriculum, it was a very illuminating day to spend the day with someone who is one of Australia’s [...]
This is a cool idea. David Schwen on Flickr has a series of type based images depicting sandwiches, obviously common to his part of the world. We see some of these here in Australia but not all. I can’t embed his images but I can show my own Australian variations here, quickly created on a [...]
I’ve planned to hold my first class meeting for 2011 tomorrow. In the spirit of our school where we try to find the foremost expert on a topic and model our approach on leading edge practice, I’ve decided to use the exemplary work of Donna Styles as my model. There is a useful site that [...]
I started a blog post intending to reflect on the first week of the 2011 school year. I scrubbed that draft last night after staring at the first paragraph for about twenty minutes. It was forced reporting and there were no anecdotes that required documentation in digital format. Perhaps it’s too early … or maybe, [...]
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