1. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye is one of those classic novels you will ‘love to hate’. Sited on more than one school list around the country, it is commonly read by a large proportion of Australian high school students which makes for some interesting school yard conversations. The …
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 …
As opposed to classroom teaching, mentoring works from a different level and at a different pace. During a mentoring session, time is set aside, the panic and rush of the school day diminishes, and the true business of learning, as is relevant to an individual student, begins. Working with Master Key Mentoring over the last …
Senior year is like the last season of your favourite TV Show, the last game before the end of season, the last mouthful of your favourite meal. There’s a terrifying moment when you realise it’s all about to end – the countdown is on. You really only have a few months left before you’re officially …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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Subjects: English (all levels including IB), English as a Second Language, Mathematics
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