Most of my favourite maths lessons have involved food of some kind. Or to be more specific, some kind of chocolate. Just as there can be no omelette without breaking a few eggs, you can’t understand fractions without breaking a few KitKats (unless you’re more of a savoury person, in which case pizza will do …
So many people feel trapped in teaching, because they don’t know what else they can do. Perhaps it’s because it’s a specialized profession, perhaps it’s the money or perhaps it’s because teaching becomes an inextricable part of our identity. It can be hard to walk away for a number of reasons and it’s probably different …
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein It’s easy to blame everyone else when things go wrong. I’ve been down that road so many times I had to build a little house. I’ve been known to stay there for days and even weeks at a time. The …
During my teacher training, one of my mentors compared teaching to being in a relationship with a bad boyfriend: it treats you badly and you know you should leave, but there’s something about it that you love, which makes it hard to walk away. I never fell fully out of love, but just over four …
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