New year, new goals, right? What better time for me to quickly run over the importance of goals and the best way to set them! Let’s first answer these simple questions: – Why should you set goals? – What’s the purpose of setting goals? – What will setting goals do for you? By setting goals …
Hello friends, so this isn’t going to be a super, lighthearted chat, but it’s an important one, so do your best to pay close attention… please, do it for those around you and maybe even for yourself. Mental Health is… Something that’s not spoken about often enough… Something that has major stigma surrounding it… Something …
“No phones in the classroom” High school and University are periods of ever-expanding responsibility for students. When you were younger you might have had mum and dad’s help to get you up in the morning, tell you where you need to be when, check to make sure you did your homework, and help you budget …
The first question people ask me is: what is Mentoring? Immediately followed by: And how is it different to tutoring? Simply put, Mentoring is about relationships. It is about believing in a child. It is not outcome driven, but process driven. Whilst tutoring involves the exchange of knowledge, Mentoring is a learning experience in itself. …
Every year you hold your breath, cross your fingers and hope – pray to the powers that be – that by some small, tiny miracle, that man, that awful, infamous man, has not made it onto the syllabus this year. “This year”, you think, “we will be the first class to not have to study Shakespeare”. But …
So, you’ve been asked to do some creative writing, specifically, a narrative intervention on a text studied in class. Cue: Student panic. Now, breathe. Firstly, I want to reassure students with this: Categorically, this is the task that students surprise themselves with the most. Especially, wait for it, boys. Every year my students inspire me …
You’ve heard the saying before: If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Well, when it comes to education, my (and so many other disenchanted teachers) experience of the mainstream, Australian, education system is that it is broken. Which begs the question: why ain’t we fixin’ it? After 10 years of teaching in the classroom, I found …
Level: Primary, High School, University
Subjects: English (all levels including IB), English as a Second Language, Mathematics
(all levels), Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Business
Permanent Mentor, Weekly session/s for entire term, access to all MKM facilities and services.
Best fit, available Mentor. Pre-booked (x) number of sessions. Can be used throughout term with 5 days’ notice provided.
Available Mentors only. Minimum 2 hours.
