One of the common mantras from educational speakers like Sir Ken Robinson is that schools don’t change. That schools are stuck in some dystopian nightmare of a Dickenesque factory which is not keeping up with the demands of the 21st century.  It is true that many things may have remained the same in education but […]

Knowledge organisers.  The BIG new thing in education.  Suddenly they are cropping up everywhere and everyone is raving about them.  But I think there is a missed opportunity with these things. Firstly, I am all for knowledge organisers.  When I first heard of them through the Twittersphere, I merely used them as a revision tool.  […]

Do you plan for student misconduct as you plan your lessons for instruction? After 26 years of teaching, with half of those years spent facilitating classroom management workshops, I have learned the value of anticipating and planning for the worst while hoping for student cooperation in the classroom during instruction. ‘Classroom management some days can […]

Start here: Crazy Fun Pics/Vid’s For those of us who attend conferences one, two, or many times throughout the year, the real Takeaway is often the relationships created and the opportunity to breathe just a little bit away from the daily grind. I am not a conference junkie by any stretch. For my own professional […]

Politics in the Classroom Many teachers completely avoid the subject of politics in the classroom while others feel it is their responsibility to share their political agendas with their students. I imagine most teachers fall somewhere in between. I believe that discussing politics and current events in the classroom is a vital component of a […]