teaching
Isn’t it amazing how much easier it is to cope with life, when you’re happy and feeling good? Problems that come your way are not huge obstacles, just a mere blimp on your radius of happiness, to deal with and let go. When you’re feeling good, you’re feeling confident – you can cope with just […]
Word on the street is, it’s REPORT CARD time! Oh how I remember the anticipation of those neatly folded cards, spruiking the virtues of my good parenting for the past six months, and how my intelligence is reflected in the children’s grades, except for maybe science, but then I don’t care about science, so why […]
Over the past 30 years, I have been to many Teacher Professional Development Sessions – or as they are known more commonly, Teacher PD. Some are great, but unfortunately, most are not so great. The ones that I have enjoyed the most, are the teacher professional development days that actually gave me something practical – […]
“I can teach my child to read, I have lots of spare time,” said no parent of school-aged children ever! I have an apology to make – for the last 12 months, I have been out of touch with parents of school-aged children. You see, whilst I’ve been happily sailing along the ‘thank goodness my […]
I think about a month has passed, since I attended the weekend marketing course, for small businesses. I have been inspired and motivated, to get BORN2READ into as many homes, schools and childcare centres as I can, and things are starting to happen. My focus shifted from getting to know every, single thing about marketing, […]
Not so long ago, I went to a weekend seminar to learn about marketing for small businesses. It was an amazing event – the presenters were encouraging, the audience was engaged and supportive, and the food was great too! During the course of the weekend, we were given lots and lots of information, which at […]
“Unsatisfactory,” says the teacher. “Your child’s reading ability is unsatisfactory. Your child’s writing is unsatisfactory.” I really, really, really, dislike this descriptor. I know that it is necessary for teachers (and I am one too), to be transparent in their reporting of children’s progress and abilities, but could we please not use the term ‘unsatisfactory’? […]
Just the other day, I was teaching Sally, about the concept of sharing. We pretended that we were hosting a tea party, and we drew the pictures of the invited guests – Mum, Dad, Grandma and Lilly; a total of four guests, or so I thought. I got twenty counters out, and said that these […]
‘I want to be a teacher – the holidays are great!’, said no real teacher ever!! I don’t know why, but even after twenty-five plus years as a professional teacher, it still really, really bugs me, when someone unwittingly says, “Gee, on holidays again. I should have been a teacher – you wouldn’t last in […]