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Eye of the Tiger
I want to make a play list of songs that would be good for getting ‘psyched up’ for work. There’s currently one song on my list – used as a theme song for the TV show Suits, ‘Greenback Boogie’ reminds...
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It took nine weeks
How long did it take for you to settle back into work? This is what people will ask me, down the track. What people have already been asking for a few weeks now. I started work just after bub turned 11...
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Let the PBL begin (again)!
It’s the end of semester one, which means two things for me: It’s time to prepare my ethics application for my funded research on project based learning in secondary English. It’s time to finalise...
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Assessing soft skills in PBL
This week in class we explored the Essential Fluencies as an alternative set of ‘soft skills’ to the General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum. One of my students followed up this investigation...
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If students designed their own schools…
Chatting in the mid-year break with Bianca and some other PBL-peeps, this video was recommended to me. It’s only 15 minutes long, and now I’m recommending it to you too: The video shows what can be...
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Assignment marking: Do the math
Something I’ve been meaning to blog about for a while is the unseen labour that goes into marking student work. It’s semester 2 marking time in Australian universities, and I’ve just finished a stack...
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Teaching and work-life balance
This week I’ve given my pre-service teachers this ‘wicked problem’ to start a conversation about work-life balance: Imagine it is dinner time on Tuesday and you have three things to do before school...
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What does poetry mean to me? #PBL unit
This semester I am attempting to demonstrate project based learning (PBL) in action by giving both of my classes an extra-curricular project to work on. (More about whether these projects are...
View ArticleStrategies for pulling all-nighters
Eat a high protein dinner. Carbs for phase 1 – 10pm-midnight. Shapes are ideal. Doritos and salsa delicious, but hard to eat and type. Coffee is a morning drink. Try to hold out until 1am. But also...
View ArticleReporting phase: Semester 1 reflection
Vlogging project In semester 1 this year (just finished!) I undertook making a few vlogs about my teaching experience as a lecturer at uni. The results are here: Week 1:...
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