Dr. Jennifer Williams on Teaching Boldly and the Meaning of Literacy Today
In this episode, Jimmy Bowens converses with Dr. Jennifer Williams, a professor of education at St. Leo University in Florida and author of Teach Boldly Using Edtech for Social Good. Jennifer is a self-confessed education activist and is an influential proponent of effective literacy strategies. Listeners, you are encouraged to pledge your support for the Children’s Rights…
Energise and Engage your Languages Class
“Language is all about patterns and connections. Connecting ideas, connecting cultures, connecting structures of language.” This EPisode is supercharged with practical ideas to support all macro skills – reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Philippa Kruger, Global Head of Languages, chats with Suzanne Hill (HoD Languages at The King’s School in Sydney, Australia) and Adele Scott…
What Makes a Good Educator? With Mitch Center
In this EPisode, Jimmy chats with Mitch Center, a highly experienced educational leader. Mitch is the founder of Center Educational Consulting. Together they explore his experience working with educational leaders to support, evaluate and empower teachers. Mitch’s song recommendation = Lose Yourself by Eminem You can contact Mitch at [email protected] To continue the conversation, join our Teaching and Learning in the…
The evolution of anxiety and COVID-19
Now, more than I can ever recall, people all around the world are simultaneously experiencing levels of fear and anxiety that are higher than normal. COVID-19 has brought about a feeling of worldwide hysteria that has people ‘panic buying’ simple grocery items that will bear no impact on their survival if they were to contract…
Advice for students navigating exams season
With exam season upon our southern hemisphere students, I thought I would put together a few tips and thoughts that might be useful to students as they approach this coming season. Before I start espousing the rhetoric of “work hard now and reap the benefits later” I would like to put forth a few disclaimers:…
How our understanding of adolescent well-being can inform our teaching.
In the evenings, as we lie supine on the Netflix echo-chamber of our living room couches, it can be difficult to fan away the ghosts of our days’ teaching efforts. We defeat the clinomaniac within us on a daily basis and do our best to engage the mysterious creatures before us only to wander home…
Filling Your Cup: Mindfulness for Teachers
Teaching is a profession where you give, give, give. And as the saying goes, it’s impossible to fill from an empty cup, so let’s have a look at the latest buzz around mindfulness, and see if all the hype is really justified. “Keeping your own wellbeing in mind is essential to create the experiential conditions…
Student voice and how feedback fosters progress
Why do teachers need feedback? Teachers are not strangers to the idea of giving feedback to their students. We do this daily through discussions, regularly asking questions and responding to student answers or in a more structured and formalised manner through summative and formative assessments. However, to really improve learning for our students, it is important…
Does that computer in front of your student make a difference?
How you can measure the effectiveness of what you do with a computer in a learning context. When I started teaching in 2007, there was only one computer in my classroom. It was a dusty old PC with ram and processing power that would make my mobile phone laugh. However, this PC wouldn’t hear any…
