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Original article found here: The Cornerstone for Teachers.com I am always looking for ways to save energy. I shared in my book Unshakeable that energy is one of our most precious resources because unlike time, energy does not naturally replenish itself. We have…
Original article: When we think about the purpose of education and the relevance of what we are teaching, what are our answers? Why do teachers need to upskill, reinvigorate their teaching and ignite new passions towards their teaching practice? The…
Original article here: For more than a century, we’ve been creating an industrial workforce of human automatons, built for the purpose of performing routine labor not yet doable by machines. And we’ve been operating with the mindset that we should…
In almost every class, there will also be those who find learning a challenge – the children who perhaps cause teachers to wake in the night, or to feel that they are having to manage certain behaviours beyond their usual…
Original article by Terry Heick on TeachThought My first year of teaching was a blur. At the time, it didn’t feel like a blur. It felt a joyous, adrenaline-fueled rush of lessons, meetings, and new relationships. But in hindsight, it was…
Research shows that everyday teaching practices exclude already marginalised groups of students, but teachers can take steps to redress the balance. Schools produce inequality. Work carried out by educational sociologists such as Kalwant Bhopal, David Gillborn and Deborah Youdell shows that…
The current support for dyslexic students in New Zealand schools is a joke. An absolute joke. When there is a reportedly 7% of students in New Zealand Schools have Dyslexia, it doesn’t sound like much. However, in a class of…
Here’s the first (of many?) Top Teacher Tip. Heading back into the classroom this week, many teachers will come across this problem in their classroom, especially if they don’t have vertiface on the walls.
As the new year begins, I have begun to prepare for the first day back at school, and the remainder of the term, and year. One thing that has always plagued my classroom has been the lack of pencils. Not…
As a bit of End of Year fun, I got my students to make a quick video of our favourite part of each day – the Daily 5. In the video you’ll get a glimpse of what the Daily 5…