Love2Learn

Today I took my year 10 IST students to the Microsoft headquarters in Sydney. This was the first school excursion I’ve ever organised and after jumping so many hoops, I was really hoping it’d all be worth it. The free event was organised by 2realise, a government-funded initiative to help students explore career pathways. The [...]

My year 10s had just had their storyboards assessed and approved. They were supposed to get started with planning for the next  stage of their multimedia projects; maybe even get started developing components of it. BUT My year 10s were visibly unsettled today at period 1. They said they had an English assessment next period – [...]

Two of my edu heroes have recently blogged about being viewed as heroes: Bianca Hewes and Alice Leung, both in response to an ‘encounter’ with Valerie Hannon, Director of Innovation Unit and founding faculty member of the Global Education Leaders Program (GELP). The incident revolve around Alice being called a hero teacher and Bianca being [...]

Thank you to my year 9s for injecting a bit of fun at the start of today’s lesson AND giving me a huge nudge to blog. It’s been a month since the last post! A few weeks ago, I introduced the archetypal learning spaces (Bianca Hewes makes an appearance here yet again as a source [...]

Maybe I miss teaching maths as I feel compelled to use some mathematical terms and concepts in this post about how my (non-Maths) PBLs mentioned in the previous post, are progressing. Oh, and this is inspired by this video on dissociating learning from performance, linked to me by the wonderful Kelli McGraw (@kmcg2375) who constantly pushes [...]