First Placement (Week 3/4)

First Placement (Week 3/4)

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...
First Placement (Week 2/4)

First Placement (Week 2/4)

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....
First Placement (Week 1/4)

First Placement (Week 1/4)

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...
Free Autodesk Software For Education

Free Autodesk Software For Education

I’ve been using Sketchup for the last few years when it came to 3D design as it’s free and quick to get into but it’s really only useful in drawing what you already have planned in your help. It’s not so good at actually finding a good design....

Challenges with rubrics and marking schema

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...