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An insightful and sometimes humorous blog of a former Biology/Physics teacher, and now curriculum director. Also includes loads of current biology resources!

Ramblings, musings, rants, and mumblings of a crazy science teacher.

It is always good to see that other teachers out there are a little crazy (and obsessed with ensuring students are learning to their potential). Have a read and see what you think.

Teaching ideas for a range of subjects

Maths blog, lesson idea and maths strategies

Articulating the pedagogical content knowledge of accomplished geography teachers

A fantastic website full of great ICT resources

"Our lesson plan examples incorporate captions for learning and literacy benefits for all students. All our lesson plans have been developed by professional teachers. These lesson plans cover Foundation through to Secondary for each subject and include links to captioned videos"

This is a great resource, thanks for sharing. I love using YouTube in the classroom as I feel students relate well to visual prompts.

Thank you for sharing this resource.It was very helpful!

This is aimed at kids with dyslexia but I don't think it would matter either way. There are some creative and fun ways to learn sight words.

This is an awesome and fun way for children to learn sight words. It's always great when we can make school fun!

Brilliant! I was just doing an observation in prep yesterday, will be sure to pass this on!

Hi All, I found this article to be very pertinent to this weeks content in EDC3100. I hope some of you can benefit as well: ABSTRACT (Copied from Sciencedirect) Technology integration in K-12 classrooms is usually overly teacher-centered and has insufficient impact on students' learning, especially in enhancing students' higher-order cognitive skills. The purpose of this project is to facilitate science teachers' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools to shift their practices from traditional teacher-centered methods to constructivist, student-centered ones. This paper describes the outcomes and lessons learned from an application of design-based research (DBR) in the implementation and refinement of a teacher professional development (PD) program that is a key component of the overall project. This DBR study involved 25 middle-school science teachers from 24 schools whose implementation of cognitive tools with their students in science classrooms and virtually through a social networking site were observed over four years. A mixed-methodology was utilized to examine the impact of the cognitive tools intervention on teachers' classroom practices and students' development of new literacy skills. Identifying reusable design principles related to technology integration was another focus of the DBR study. The results revealed teachers' positive changes in their classroom practices by gradually allowing students to take control over the use of technology, and positive impact on students' ICT skills and science learning. Design principles for future professional development programs aimed at preparing teachers to adopt a cognitive tools approach are described.

Another useful site with tips that could be applied to prac as well as relief teaching.

A really good phonics based program to teach reading, writing and spelling to 3-8 year olds

Jump on and have a look at assessing learning and using evidence to differentiate. This is a 6 step professional development provided by The Department of Education and Training Queensland via The Learning Place.

Mr P's blog shares creative ideas to raise standards across the curriculum using technology. He also uses Instagram's social media platform to post pictures and short videos 'Time Saving Tech Tips'. These videos are quick and easy guides to help teachers save time and utilise technology to its potential in the classroom!

I have followed Miss Jacob for a while on facebook and find lot's of resources from different websites in this one location. It is great for ideas for younger children without having to look at lot's of different websites.