Educational Leadership – Trust the process

Throughout my career in Education, I have always strived to be a leader whether or not in an official title included leadership in it. Demonstrating leadership for me has always included being in the classroom, out in the school yard...

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National Future Schools Conference 2019

Attending the National Future Schools Conference recently held in Melbourne was an opportunity to learn more about the future of education and being able to bring useable tools into my classroom. It was also the chance to further develop my...

Providing feedback in the classroom using Google Forms

Recently as a teaching cohort, my colleagues and I were asked the questions "why is receiving feedback from students just as important as providing good feedback?". At this point, I thought "how can I receive positive feedback in the classroom...

2019 Updated Version – The Power of a #PLN

I recently had a conversation with a work colleague about whether having a professional learning network (PLN) was worth having or not. A PLN can be an online tool that uses social media and technology to collect, communicate, collaborate and...

Google Slides in Education – So many ways to engage in the classroom

Hey readers, Thanks to Kasey Bell and Matt Miller for their inspiration on this post regarding Google Slides. Kasey and Matt like to refer to Slides as the Swiss army knife of Gsuite because of its variety. As this school...

Google Sheets – Tips and Tricks

Hey readers, Over the past few months, I have attended a number of different professional development sessions with the aim of further developing my ability to work with the wide range of G-Suite tools. In addition to completing my Level...

#TTPlay 2018 Conference – Learning and innovation comes together

Hey readers, Over the recent school holidays here in Australia, I attended the Teach Tech Play Conference , where my title suggests there was plenty of learning and innovation shared amongst the many educators from around the world that attended...

Preparing to Present at #TTPlay2018 – How using Design Thinking encourages students to be creative

Hey readers, Preparing for the upcoming Teach Tech Play Conference I am wanting to develop a list of topics on what to present based around the idea of Design Thinking and how whether it allows students to be creative in...

Data and Motivation – Using both to build rapport with my students

Hey readers, As I mentioned in my previous post, this year will see the beginning of a new journey that will have plenty of new experiences with needing to learn new subjects and curriculum, building rapport with new students but...