The nerves are setting in, they always do this time of year! I always get quite stressed about the first day of school. The only thing that calms my nerves is a session of heavy laminating, because when you laminate stuff it makes you feel like progress is being made! Set the Scene I am […]
My Plans for Introducing Growth Mindset
It is nearly the end of the summer holidays and I have been thinking about the first few weeks of school and what I want to do to establish the culture of my classroom. Last year I attended some professional learning about visible learning, and that sparked some interest in the idea of growth mindset. […]
Back to School for Me
My year long holiday (parental leave) finished with a bang this week as I headed back to the classroom. I am working two days a week in a year three class. My job share partner is an awesome chick, who also has a little one about the same age as my youngest. I am looking […]
Australian Back to School eBook
It is nearly time to head back to our schools and classrooms. A new year full of little personalities to get to know and a 40 week journey of lessons to begin. To help you prepare for the back to school rush and beyond, some generous teacher authors from Teachers Pay Teachers have got together […]
Making Maths Assessment Easier
Assessing the Achievement Standards of the Mathematics curriculum just got a little bit easier. Assessing the Mathematics Standards packs have been designed to explicitly link each content descriptor to the relevant part of the achievement standard. Each segment of the achievement standard has 2 pages of questions to assess student levels of understanding. The two […]