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chool begins here in Victoria on Tuesday. It is the first time in ten years that I have not spent the summer busily preparing for the new school year. That has been a strange feeling.
My daughter, Novalie, is 5.5 months old and I am absolutely loving motherhood. While I won’t be in the classroom this year, apart from some possible replacement teaching, I’m thankful that there are still ways to keep up with education.
There was a time, not so long ago, when maternity leave would mean you’re out of the ‘education loop’. Now, with blogs, Twitter and other online resources, the education community is at your finger tips.
Great use of ICT to keep her skills current and to meet current trends and changes.
recently wrote some tips for graduate teachers on the excellent ABC Splash site which may be of interest to educators beginning their careers next week. I enjoyed having the chance to reflect back on my own learning journey.
This is kathleen Morris and her blog page is about how to incorporate blogging into her grade 4 classroom. Even though Kathleen is on maternity leave I believe the information posted in 2013 is relevant to my assignment reasons. Another note Kathleen was a team teaching partner to Kelly Jordan who has launched her own blog this year.
Although Kathleen is on maternity leave at the moment I found her blog posts both inspirational and incredibly helpful. She provides links to other helpful blogs as well as tips for new educators on how to stay connected. Kathleen is also a big advocator of integrating technology into our class rooms.
This blog is by Kathleen Morris. She is a primary school teacher in Victoria. She has a wealth of knowledge on her blog and I have been reading a post about integrating blogging into the school classroom.
A teacher currently on maternity leave, using social media to keep up to date with the current education, teaching and learning trends. Dedicated teacher to be ensuring she doesn't lose skill or ability when it's time to return.
First grade teacher from Queensland who loves to share some amazing and inspirational ideas, strategies and resources. This teacher loves to share and feels that she is becoming a better teacher by learning from everyone she connects with.
1. Interesting to me in a sense that this teacher uses a lot of creative resources in her classroom, incorporates ICT's (the wide web) to share with other teachers - which is helpful in a sense of gathering knowledgable and creative resources.
Gives lots of insights into the classroom, and shares life as a teacher - and the resources she uses for her students in the classroom.
Down under teacher is an Australian teacher's blog if the title has not gave it away for you. It appears to be particularly focused towards the Early Primary setting. She also experienced great difficulty getting in touch with other Australian teachers so you will find she has created a tab and encouraged other Australian teacher's to come forward with the names of their blogs.
I'm joining in with a fun linky hosted by Oz Curriculum HQ to share some tips for a fantastic first day of school. Be sure to head on over so you can see lots of other great ideas.
Down Under Teacher is an Australian Teacher with some great ideas. Numerous amounts of details are put into the posts some really great ideas are shared.
Melinda Crean is a Perth primary school educator who shares ideas and resources in her blog: Top Notch Teaching, on how to better classroom practice. She shares different ideas and resources on topics such as classroom management, lesson ideas, reflective teaching, Specific Learning Disability (SLD) and much more.
Primary school teacher and dyslexia specialist, reflects and supports through her own blog for other teachers. She has some great resources and tips to help us out.
Blog contains tabs which allow you to look at specific topics. The topics are News, Teaching, Inspiration, Personal Development, Tech Tips and Social Media Savvy
This is the blog of Linda Parnello a special education teacher in America. This is a current/active blog with a lot of classroom hints and tips for special education. There's not a lot of ICT but there is a lot about working with parents.