I have been horrible at posting lately as school has got the best of me. But, I promise to make an effort to post more regularly, since we ...

The importance of using proper terminology in maths has been proven in numerous studies. Thus, when beginning new units in maths, I also ma...

To help students get used to creating a plan for a narrative, we did a bit of practise.  We began by creating massive lists for "s...

I had a student in my class who was a part of the language centre and was a very new arrival to Australia. His English was extremely limite...

Here is a poster that I make with the children when we start our unit on division.  It is crucial that students use the correct mathe...

This is an absolutely amazing idea that was shared with me by my colleague Ryan, who is also coincidentally an amazing teacher. It can be u...

A short one but a good one! I learnt about this while I was in teacher's college as a strategy to help students explain an idea/con...

I learnt about this activity in a PD I went to on teaching EAL (English as an Additional Language) students. It is called possible sentence...

This is an EAL (English as an Additional Language) strategy that I learnt about at a PD by Margery Hertzberg. The name of this activity is ...

This was an excellent way to start off our unit on graphing but can be used for basically any topic you would like. Students formed int...

Here is another example of how to use a progressive brainstorm. This time I used to it introduce different graphs to the students. C...

I've been focusing on questioning in reading and an activity that I found really useful and students love is called "Hot Seat...

An excellent oral language game that I've used in my reading group is called "Ask the Right Question". Students play in ...

I've been attending a number of professional development sessions on teaching English as an Additional Language learners in mainstream ...

Learning Focus: Representing fractions in different ways This is one of the first lesson’s we did in our unit on FRACTIONS. Studen...

Learning Focus: Creating a bar graph from data During our whole class focus, students spread out into a circle and began to c...