by Harrison | Jun 24, 2017 | Reflections
It’s the end! And it’s happy and sad. Happy because there’s finally a break but sad to be leaving such a nice school. I’ve had the best mentor teachers and learned more about teaching in these four weeks than my whole uni teaching degree. From...
by Harrison | Jun 17, 2017 | Reflections
Year 8s. For pretty much my entire degree I imagined myself in front of a class of year 11s and 12s teaching math and physics. I had experience tutoring year 11s and 12s and experience teaching first year university students how to write programs. Two of my three...
by Harrison | Jun 10, 2017 | Reflections
If I thought last week was busy, I was wrong. This week was my first full teaching week and I didn’t realize it last week, but on Tuesdays I actually have 6/6 lessons teaching. Double 10 science, double 8 science, 12 physics (observation/tutoring) then 8 math....
by Harrison | Jun 3, 2017 | Reflections
Wow. For most of my student life, I imagined that one day I’ll be a teacher and I’ll know what to do when I’m in front of my students. At the start of this week, I realised that this scenario isn’t a year or so away. It’s in a few days...
by Harrison | Mar 5, 2017 | Reflections
The difficult part with creating and using a marking rubric is differentiating between different levels of performance. Sometimes the only difference between a C and a B grade might be ‘satisfactory’ versus ‘good’ and it can be quite subjective...
by Harrison | Mar 3, 2017 | Reflections
Today we were taught about the role of assessment in learning. It’s not just about giving students a grade on their knowledge, it’s about measuring where students are at in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there. All good topic...
