Where does your best professional learning happen these days?  One of the ongoing challenges with professional learning can sometimes be tha...

The New Zealand Curriculum demands that we develop 'self-managing' learners, yet how many of our students were unable to do so witho...

I redesigned and adapted my favourite board game, Catan, in an attempt to engage some of my more passive learners in a more active way. It...

There are some weird things that we require our year eleven students to know. Trigonometry and Shakespeare for example. Now don't get m...

image source I hear the arguments for student-centred pedagogy. I hear the teachers who love their subject, who are passionate about th...

During the final #edchatNZ chat of the year, one of the questions were "What has been the best/most critical question you encountere...

"Miss, why are we learning this?" When a student asks this question in my class, I know I have messed up. I believe that a student...

I often (read almost always), think of my life as a Disney movie and as such, carefully consider the lessons to be learnt from Disney. O...

Every school is different. Every school has its pros and cons, its opportunities and challenges. But so far, my first week at Hobsonville P...

One of the ongoing goals of education in New Zealand is raising Maori student achievement. There is a lot of discussion about this in sch...