Guest blog from Josh Roy, Teacher at Ernest Bevin Having trained in a challenging environment, being deprived of meaningful (in-school) feedback for about two years, and being bombarded with observations from all possible sides, I feel I should be better placed than...
Written by Christophe Mullings 1. Create a shared vision about what great teaching and learning looks like How can a teacher move towards being better at what they do when they don’t know what that looks like? Giving teachers the opportunity to see great teaching in...
Video conferencing is an exciting technology that is significantly helping to address the challenges of social isolation and reduced collaboration faced by teachers and students. Sadly, the conferencing tools being offered by the big multinationals have been borrowed...
Written by Christophe Mullings “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey Reflection is a core component of effective professional development and key to becoming a skilled teacher. Meaning a teacher’s ability to reflect...
Written by Christophe Mullings For many school leaders, the importance of effective teacher professional learning/professional development needs little explaining. As the NSW state government in Great Teaching, Inspired Learning (2012) straightforwardly puts it,...
Imagine that you open the newspaper tomorrow to find that the government has decided to change the rules for issuing driving licenses. Anyone that now wants a license must undertake a year-long university diploma, where they will study Newton’s Laws of Motion and...