mrvanw.bsky.social
Teacher, School Leadership, Active/Flipped Learning and Student Wellbeing in Regional Australia
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That does seem to look like it's taking agency/blame away from HS teachers and that's not OK. We need to be responsible as well.
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Now I'm arguing with myself.
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I also think one of the great things I saw you talking about at a conference once was the all girls STEM club.
Unrelated, I wonder if there's tracking in K-12 schools of primary school teachers attitudes to STEM and and the uptake of optional STEM subjects in HS?
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I was @ a school for 11 years, when I arrived (Chem/Physics teacher teaching Bio to start). Bio teachers would openly say that Bio was more suitable to girls in class. Over that decade, they worked to put female teachers in physics and over that time female participation increased dramatically.
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Hexagon is bestagon
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Generally, I love your work but the detentions work thing seems to be going against a very large body of evidence there.
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In an Australian teacher shortage, we're often the first one in line to cover a class (or full day of classes).
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A great resource for this for those unsure of how to get started in the #designthinking world is the Future Problem Solving program. They have a community projects program that our students have had real success with and provided newbie teachers (to design thinking) a nice framework to get started.
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Thanks to Just Dance, in our HS classes it tends to be Rasputin!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJh5...
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Good thing White Australia spent so long destroying our culture, separating us from one another and working to break down our ties with nation and community.
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I love all of these, but I know that this expectation in High School would have me lynched by my team. Particularly the extra communication home (well it would be seen as extra. I love what you're putting out there).
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Yep, mine is set for tomorrow but somehow it's 11:15 and I'm still up watching Poirot. Ah well, lets start how we ended.
#eduskyau
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Because at this point progressive education is surprisingly traditional. Teachers have been doing it right for a long time.
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I work at a very STEM focused k-12 school, but we also work super hard on Reading, Writing, Philosophy and History. I also don't understand how it has to be one or the other. In Australia the govt level policymakers don't seem to be able to focus on more than one, but our kids and schools sure do.
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Outstanding!!! Congratulations
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Living.
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What kind of psychopath would even suggest this?
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Word.
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While I largely agree that we need to be careful with tech in the classroom, I cringe at the throwing of the ALP's laptop scheme as the beginning of the problem. 1. The right tech is useful 2. That scheme happened when laptops were more expensive & seeing that get into low ses was transformational.
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It's a good day to be at work. Especially at this point in term 4
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So far so good. I keep expecting it to be a dumpster fire that never happens.
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That's the plan. I miss #AussieEd but have no desire to go back to the wasteland.
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Pinged from a regional Australian Head of Wellbeing and Chemistry Teacher
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I have to be honest, I can't think of an author I've had a harder time reconciling their being a trash human and their art. Seeing the hurt on a trans kid, my trans kid, each time she pops up saying something evil and dangerous with how important she was to her growing up is brutal.
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Trad education. Screw that.
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This is way cool, thank you