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We all move through life in a vehicle that carries an exquisite level of internal, interdependent harmony, where its many and varied...

Have we been reducing the true value of our physical body in order to sustain the restricting and separative ideals of functional...

The Sea of Education and our Voyage of Awareness A dear colleague once shared how education can sometimes feel like you’re out at sea on...

“Good morning, Jamie! How are you doing today?” Our morning greeting to our students has a more profound effect than just being nice and...

For the past four weeks I have been the University Adviser to a number of students who are completing the Practicum Teaching Block as...

It was the start of a school year and the new intake of Kindy students were arriving to have their pre-assessments done. Each child would...

Worldwide there is a growing shortage of teachers. The number of teachers leaving the profession was observed several years ago and the...

Teaching is a unique and awesome profession, one that brings much joy and fulfilment to those who continue within it into their elder...

The new school year… we all feel how hugely significant this is every year. We are flooded with media footage of the preparations for...

Moments of mania or true reflection? It’s the end of the school year once again and I find I’m observing and witnessing what I’ve...

Many of us raised from the 1960’s through to the 1980’s will recall the tangible horror we felt the first time we read George Orwell’s...

Back in the 1990’s, I commented to my colleagues that I felt the need to place a cardboard box around my head when teaching so that my...

THE BEAUTY OF HOW THE ‘THREE C’S’ WORK As teachers, we are all familiar with the importance of using the strategies of collaboration,...

Have we ever stopped to consider the role and impact of rewards in education? How would you answer this question if asked to reply...

My colleagues and I recently made one small, yet significant, step against the flooding incoming tide of the imposition of grading...

Is the much-touted deterioration of literacy standards really exclusively attributable to teachers in schools? Declining literacy...

Have you noticed the decline in oral language in young children as they start school? As teachers we have been observing this decline in...

We are no longer speaking to express, we are speaking to impress There is a widespread belief in society that it is good for us to be...

Around 30 years ago, the English curriculum underwent a significant pedagogical shift into the explicit teaching of genres, most notably...

Teaching the Language of Narrative Today Today the first step in teaching any genre in a school setting, including the genre of...