Ah the long weekend that passed. I felt reluctant about getting up this morning. I got into work and had morning yard duty straight up. It was cold. I missed getting my new timetable and thinking I had a free as per my old timetable missed a class altogether. The students obviously kept themselves to […]

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After attending the Cybersafe training day on Thursday I have pruned my facebook of all current students. I was reluctant to do that because I felt that I was a responsible user of social networking, but the implications and lack of control over what others post, creates vulnerabilities for teachers. I like to be socially […]

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Tomorrow I am going to a Cyberbullying course. We had a speaker talk to our year 7s and 10s yesterday and there was not much he spoke of that I wasn’t aware of. I have been attending these kinds of talks for a few years now. I want to keep up to date to keep […]

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I got soaked walking from my office to my car after school today. I was saturated to the bone and the coolness of that has stayed with me all night. I have been super active and handled lots of tasks that I’ve been too hot and bothered to attend to all week. I was on bus […]

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On the weekend I attended briefly (well for a 3rd of the prescribed time) our 25th ‘10 till 10′. This annual event has been going on since we left school. The committed have reunited at a local pub for a session lasting all day. Even though I have lived in this town for most of my […]

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We have laptops in many classes now. There is so much to teach about using the Internet. This week we had a learning experience about Twitter. Some students were using it as though it were a private chat room. I guess because all their usual chat channels are blocked by the schools ‘protection systems’ it […]

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Today I had a professional development day. It was a course in Behaviour Management. I haven’t been on a Behaviour Management course since the first years I was teaching.  I have been more interested in things like technology or learning. It was productive and has given me some great things to think about, especially as a […]

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Last night at our staff meeting we talked to the teachers about building positive relationships with students. I had gone over in my head what I wanted to say about it several times since I’d been asked to do it. I didn’t say half of it.  The other person speaking had recently done a great […]

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Today we took some year 9 multimedia students to Melbourne for a workshop. They learnt about creating sound and images. The computer lab was great. They were beautifully behaved. I must say it was a gentle start to the term. I ate lunch by the Yarra in the sunshine.
 I must admit to feeling a little frustration about […]

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This year, for the first time ever, I have a student from England in my English class. He has arrived at a very good time for me since I am planning to go there and teach later this year. I’ve been asking lots of questions about school there. I am learning a lot from him. He reassures […]

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