Reflection: English Prac
The final assignment for our English unit was a reflection. I wasn’t sure whether to post it on here, but what is a blog for if not to reflect. “The relationship between a learner and a teacher is dependent on their level of shared knowledge but the level of learner engagement depends on the [...]
It’s Time
For my supervised lesson this week, I am looking at various sources that tell us about Gough Whitlam. I just came across this video – his election campaign ad! I suspect it will be stuck in my head for the rest of the week.
Bayeux Tapestry
I’m currently putting together a lesson on the Bayeux Tapestry for year 8, and am amazed at how many fantastic resources are out there freely available! So far I’ve delved into the below, and found them to be particularly useful: Hands on History: The Normans Museum of Reading Woodlands Junior School BBC UK Battle of [...]
Plumpton High Babies
Today with year 11 we watched two episodes from the ABC series Plumpton High Babies as part of their Institution and the Individual unit. I’m not sure if the series can be purchased anywhere, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most Australian schools have a copy in their libraries. Anyway, this was the most engaged [...]
Prac
And suddenly 2 months has passed! The last few months have been some of the busiest of my life, but I’ve loved (nearly) every minute of it. I found myself a prac placement for English that isn’t too far from home, and although I’m only 2 days in, I’m loving it. My History prac is [...]
The Aztecs
To end my prac for the year, I finished off with two lessons on the Aztecs. I really enjoyed putting these lessons together and teaching them, and they were the best experiences I have had with the class yet. I heavily used Retroactive 1, World History, 3rd Edition for these lessons on the Aztecs (earlier [...]
Aboriginal first contact lesson plan
My master teacher covered pre-contact Aboriginal culture and society, so in my next lesson, I had to cover contact, both British and pre-British. I also only had half a lesson, because a video had been scheduled to be watched in the second half of the lesson. The film watched was Women of the Sun – [...]
Contact & Colonisation: Introduction
The next lesson I was given to teach for prac was an introduction to contact and colonisation. The class are going to spend the term looking at both the Aztecs and Australian Aborigines, and this class was an introduction to the concepts. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to play the bingo game I prepared, [...]
Medieval crime & punishment part 2
2 days after the disastrous lesson with year 7, I was back for more. After some seating changes, we launched in – and this lesson went beautifully. I was very happy, the master teacher was happy, and most of the kids were happy (the ones that were kept back at the end weren’t, but there [...]
Medieval torture techniques….
… that I was more than tempted to use on my year 7s. JOKES! (maybe) I was happy with the lesson content, timing, and for half of the students, I think the lesson went really well. The usual noisy ones were a bit out of control, but considering I haven’t seen them for a month [...]