Had a great couple of weeks thus far: students are working well, keeping out of trouble. My aim this year is to increase the amount of learning that is going on in my classes. To do this I aim to: increase the amount of direct instructionincrease the...

I started my studies for my masters this year and it's good to be doing something thought provoking again. There's a bit of a rush on post graduate studies at school at the moment, with many feeling more comfortable to start now that many NCOS subjects...

The first IOTY nomination for 2010 is Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia and general all around idiot. First we had to put up with Rate-my-teacher, a website prone to defamatory comments. At least with rate-my-teacher a comment could be...

All fired up.. lessons planned.. preparation done.. Let's go!

I sat through another round of someone extolling the benefits of rubrics/analytic marking keys/explicit marking keys. There was no doubt a lot of effort went into constructing them, but the usual issues were there amongst the generic...