Teaching Mentors: Why You Need One and How to Find Them

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Find a teaching mentor. Find a teaching mentor. Find a teaching mentor. How many times have you heard this bit of advice? It’s a pretty common tip for first-year teachers, and there’s a reason for that! The minute you step into that classroom, you’re bound to feel a bit overwhelmed and completely alone. Hold on […]

10 Teacher Hacks to Get Students to Follow Directions… the First Time!

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We’ve all been there… we’ve had a shocker of a day and all we can say is – ‘They just don’t listen to my directions…’ But, this won’t improve if we harp on about it to them and show our frustrations. We need to get creative and support our students so that they have all […]

10 Teacher Hacks to Get Students to Follow Directions… the First Time!

10-teacher-hacks-to-get-students-to-follow-directions…-the-first-time!

We’ve all been there… we’ve had a shocker of a day and all we can say is – ‘They just don’t listen to my directions…’ But, this won’t improve if we harp on about it to them and show our frustrations. We need to get creative and support our students so that they have all […]

Reconciliation storytelling

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Storytelling exists as a vital aspect of every culture and has existed in every corner of the world which people call home. Stories exist to inform, explore and hypothesise as well as to entertain and amuse. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have used stories as their main way of sharing their worldview and understandings […]