by Carolyn | Sep 4, 2024 | Education, Mentoring and Coaching, Teaching
I was thinking about the downside of referring to teaching as a ‘calling’ when I came across a fascinating blog post from 2015. Written and updated by John Merrow, as the title suggests, it discussed the correct naming of teaching, Is Teaching a Profession, an...
by Carolyn | Jan 24, 2024 | Mentoring and Coaching, School leaders, Teaching
School leaders, we hear you. Staff shortages are no joke, and relying on out-of-field teachers can feel like a gamble. But what if you could transform them into confident, effective educators without spending a fortune on individual coaching? What do we mean by...
by Carolyn | Aug 14, 2023 | Teaching
Context We have all been benefiting from AI for quite some time, albeit most of us didn’t know. Think Siri and Alexa, Netflix and Spotify, search engines and analytics, natural language processing and fraud detection. However it became a really hot topic when...
by Carolyn | Mar 11, 2023 | Education, Literature, Teaching
I don’t know if it is just me, as a mother of grown up twin boys, but I get the distinct impression that popular movies, of the last couple decades, have been largely connected to the Marvel and DC universes. I do enjoy the movies, though I have seen fewer now that...
by Carolyn | Feb 16, 2023 | Teaching
This article was first published in EducationHQ on July 12th 2021 It is ironic that the fields of literacy and numeracy, which are debated endlessly and sit at the base of NAPLAN and PISA testing, are the subjects in schools most likely to be taught by out-of-field...
by Carolyn | Nov 21, 2022 | Teaching
I have always been a little in awe of primary school teachers. To daily wrangle with a room full of small children takes a special skill set and level of patience. I much preferred classes of large noisy teenagers. There was less chance that I would break them. The...
