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  • To Do List for Week 0 & 1

    To Do List for Week 0 & 1

    Posted on January 21, 2024 by educationalist |
    Week 00, Week 0, Week 1! These have to be some of the craziest weeks as a teacher in preparation for the coming year. Amidst all the “how were your holidays chats,” “school visions for year,” and “professional developments,” that Week 0 entails, you actually need to prepare your classroom. I am a sucker for…
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  • Pay Teachers Overtime!

    Pay Teachers Overtime!

    Posted on January 10, 2024 by educationalist | 1 Comment
    Teacher hours are a hotly debated topic. Some claim to do over 70 hours a week, while others seem to cruise through by arriving just before the students do, then leaving not long after the students leave. Yet, the salary is the same! Why is it that some teachers workload is enormous compared to other…
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  • The Importance Of Reading To A Child From A Young Age

    The Importance Of Reading To A Child From A Young Age

    Posted on December 30, 2022 by educationalist |
    What is the importance of reading to a child from a young age? From the moment I was born, my mother would do two significant things that have helped develop my learning ability. She would sing, and she would read to me! But just how important they were, I will explain as you read on.…
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To Do List for Week 0 & 1

To Do List for Week 0 & 1

Posted on January 21, 2024 by educationalist |
Week 00, Week 0, Week 1! These have to be some of the craziest weeks as a teacher in preparation for the coming year. Amidst all the “how were your holidays chats,” “school visions for year,” and “professional developments,” that…
Read more »
Pay Teachers Overtime!

Pay Teachers Overtime!

Posted on January 10, 2024 by educationalist | 1 Comment
Teacher hours are a hotly debated topic. Some claim to do over 70 hours a week, while others seem to cruise through by arriving just before the students do, then leaving not long after the students leave. Yet, the salary…
Read more »
The Importance Of Reading To A Child From A Young Age

The Importance Of Reading To A Child From A Young Age

Posted on December 30, 2022 by educationalist |
What is the importance of reading to a child from a young age? From the moment I was born, my mother would do two significant things that have helped develop my learning ability. She would sing, and she would read…
Read more »
The Talkative Classroom: Noise Volume Control Methods

The Talkative Classroom: Noise Volume Control Methods

Posted on July 20, 2022 by educationalist |
Being known as the teacher with ‘loud’ classrooms and the teacher who can manage ‘loud’ classrooms brings me great joy to share some of my classroom noise volume control methods with you. If your classroom is anything like mine, highly…
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Teaching Tip: Gaining Attention via Deliberate Mistakes

Teaching Tip: Gaining Attention via Deliberate Mistakes

Posted on January 14, 2022 by educationalist |
I was in senior school, and like many senior schoolers, I spent large amounts of my time in the classroom daydreaming. That was until my math teacher started making regular math mistakes on the whiteboard. When the mistakes first started,…
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How to Teach Honesty and the Understanding of Perspective!

How to Teach Honesty and the Understanding of Perspective!

Posted on January 16, 2021 by educationalist |
– An important lesson to give all children Whether it be at home or in the schoolyard, how often does one child come to you to tell you about another child’s wrongdoing? You confront that other child, ask what they…
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Is the University system becoming outdated?

Is the University system becoming outdated?

Posted on January 14, 2021 by educationalist |
Only the most intellectual and capable humans could go to University, get a higher education, and then get employment in an above-average-paying field. Today, you can make money through many different avenues. You could get a trade, licensing to work…
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How a mentor can leave a positive impact on your child

How a mentor can leave a positive impact on your child

Posted on January 12, 2021 by educationalist |
It wasn’t too long into my teaching career when I witnessed the impact parents had on their children. Whether it be positive or negative, a child’s best and worst traits often come from their parents’ actions.  From birth, everything a child…
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“I’m a Superhero!” Improved behaviour by modelling a Superhero

“I’m a Superhero!” Improved behaviour by modelling a Superhero

Posted on January 1, 2021 by educationalist |
Bad egg! Horrible kid! Evil! Devil! – These are only a few, of many labels that I have heard children be named. And trust me, they can get worse. Honestly speaking, I can even put my hand up and say…
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Kick-start a child’s reading ability with the visual reading of words

Kick-start a child’s reading ability with the visual reading of words

Posted on July 22, 2020 by educationalist |
Ever since humanity began to read, we were taught to sound out the words. We were taught to read ‘phonetically!’ And of course, the phonetic method of reading is the method that a high percentage of the global population has…
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