Archive for February, 2007

School yard bullying of teachers needs to stop

An article in today’s Herald-Sun has revealed that more than $21 million was paid to teachers in stress leave between January 2002 and August 2006. WorkCover figures suggest that around 700 state school teachers have been paid to take stress leave due to harassment, assault and work pressures. Disturbingly, violence and harassment of school teachers [...]

I read an interesting editorial piece on the Daily Mail news website, ‘Stop feminising our schools – our boys are suffering’, by Jill Parkin. It definitely provides an interesting point of view, and presents the argument that the current education system is holding back the intellectual development of the male population. This system of continuous assessment [...]

I think I gave up on the ideal of perfection some time ago. I figure I could chase perfection until I pass out from exhaustion, but perfection would always be that little bit out of reach. Now instead of perfection, I try to make the best of what I’ve got. But sometimes that can be [...]

Finally posted two new science lesson plans. They are up in the lesson plan section, but here is a direct link to the science lesson plans. These two plans are suitable for the years 2-3 and 3-4. Check them out. If you have any suggestions let us know.

Well it has taken far longer than I would have liked, but I’ve nearly sorted out getting the first lesson plan up on this site. I was trying to make them as easy to find as possible, but wordpress is built more for blogs rather than building pages I guess. In any case the lesson [...]