Initiate critical and innovative thinking in your students with these Earth Day classroom activities! Download our free ‘How to plant a seed’ worksheet here: Let us know what your class thought of the activities in the comments section below!
Primary Worksheet – Parts of Speech Print this in A3/A2 as a classroom reminder or hand out to students when teaching grammar. This handy worksheet gives a comprehensive explanation of the eight parts of speech. Activity: Using the poster/handout below as a guide for your students, ask the class to think of two words and … Read more
A happy classroom is every teacher’s goal. You want your students to be engaged in your lessons and connected to you and each other, fostering a thriving learning environment where curious minds can explore, and mutual respect can grow.
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with your students with these quick, easy activities! Magic Rainbow Ring Ask your class to come up with a hypothesis before you begin. Use this free Hypothesis worksheet to prompt your students to think about what might happen. What is at the end of a rainbow? Help your students to develop … Read more
Have you just received your Siena cover and are a bit unsure about how to put it onto your Teacher Planner?
you can focus on getting organised!
Teachers are always juggling so many tasks that they often forget to take care of their own wellbeing. Your work environment, stress levels and overall health have a huge impact on your work life, and we all know that happy and healthy staff are more productive!
More and more teachers are finding themselves buried under mounds of paperwork that Adam Voigt describes as “pointless box-ticking and red tape that offer[s] little-to-no value to the school environment[7]” and less time in the classroom actually interacting with students – the reason teachers got into education in the first place. Complaints abound of an unhealthy emphasis on testing and a neglect of practical and real-world application and preparation.
Schools across Australia catering for disabilities and in low-income areas are facing challenges above and beyond what the average school contends with on a day-to-day basis. They are trying their level best, despite disadvantage, to give their students the best education possible and steer them towards a fulfilling, successful future, but there are currently many roadblocks in the way, not the least of which is their level of inclusion and involvement in their own communities.
In a time of global instability, students with special needs require as much support as they can get, but the impact that this can have on teachers is phenomenal. We spoke with first year primary school teacher, Adam from Melbourne, to get his insight on how schools can support their staff to ensure that nobody … Read more
Kylie is a mother of four children in Victoria, three of whom have additional needs, and can offer a unique perspective last year’s COVID-19-induced lockdown learning. As a family of six, with her husband Michael being a teacher himself, this family had its hands full during the extended lockdown from hell that Melbourne endured in 2020.
