Browsing Category Education
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Education 336
Primary School Science – Building Foundations of Awe and Wonder or Science in a Box?
While teaching a Primary School Science lesson recently, I had the opportunity to observe the quality of Science we currently offer our school students, as well as to ...
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Education 600
Feeling Safe – A Teacher’s Responsibility
In my experience, for a child to learn and develop in confidence and self-awareness it’s important they feel safe, both emotionally and physically. However, in the classroom a ...
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Education 767
The Education I didn’t get at Boarding School
When we send our children away to boarding school believing they will get a better education, what are we setting them up for? Can an education away from ...
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Education 927
The True Purpose of Education – One Size Fits All or Evolution?
Everybody is already born a special, unique and vital piece to the whole. Very few of us, however, can really appreciate this or can accept it without question. ...
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Education 687
What would our Education be like if we Truly Supported our Kids to Connect to their Body?
For the past three months I have been on a Connective Tissue Exercise Program with the highly qualified Esoteric practitioner and physiotherapist Kate Greenaway-Twist. These hour long online ...
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Education 492
Assessing and Marking – Another Way to Connect to Children
The other day I noticed the fun I experienced marking students’ work when I chose to remain open, relaxed and connected to what they were learning. I opened ...
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Education 588
A True Way to Learn
School is considered a very important, if not the only important focus in a child’s life in the Asian culture. I was never really interested in school – ...
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Education 976
Is University Exhausting Us For Life?
I did 8 years at university, including 2 years living on campus, and can clearly recall the stress and pressure that went with university life. It was and ...
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Education 885
Raising Boys – Are we Imposing on Them?
A class I recently taught was studying an English unit on Advertising, which looked at advertising of products for children. I enjoy teaching advertising units because I find ...
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Education 809
A Renewed Commitment to Me & Working as a Primary School Teacher
Teacher wellbeing and self-care are topics that need to seriously be looked at, discussed and acted upon in the profession. Today teachers are under a lot of pressure; ...