As colleagues think about planning lessons please consider planning them for the child you have in front of you - they may need your professional love first before they can learn. My advice, if in doubt, as I once said to an experienced teacher “just give him the bloody pencil”.

Too many edu-tech conversations are backwards. They begin with the tech. “Here's this new tech...how should it change what ppl do?” We should start with ppl. “What problems are teachers working on? What do students need?” Tech is *one* avenue to explore in seeking solutions.

#DigiTech_2021 #TDS_2021 TDS DigiTech K-6 Getting Started with iPad (Webex) Date: Tuesday 9th March 2021 Enrolment for this event is available at: plis.det.wa.edu.au/?EventID=39180 (DoE Teachers Only) @sian_bakewell Bhavneet Singh Piara Waters PS

Are you a beginner iPad user? Join us for our first Webex for some teacher tricks and tips to help you master you device!👩🏼‍💻 Register on PLIS #DigiTech_2021 #PiaraDigiTech

✨ Department of Education teachers, please join us at our first Face to Face TDS event for 2021- Digital Technologies in the Early Years (K-2). Register on PLIS here: plis.det.wa.edu.au/?EventID=40072 ✨

“What we found was quite shocking…” Dr Geoff Gallop, Chair of the Independent Inquiry into the work of teachers, has recorded this special message ahead of politicians addressing Federation Council today. #GallopInquiry

I’m excited to share my latest book collaboration with @sian_bakewell. A collection of lessons developed with the early years teachers at Piara Waters PS as we explored the Digital Technologies curriculum & iPad. Apple Books: books.apple.com/au/book/digita… ePub: blueprintlearning.com.au/free-content

IMO, way too much focus has been placed on paragraph and whole-text levels and not enough focus on sentence and word levels, which requires knowledge of functional grammar. smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…

Our female Numbat Maia has given birth to four healthy female joeys - the first for this year! 😍 Numbats are endangered with roughly 1,000 left in the wild 😢 We're the only Zoo in the world breeding Numbats for release to help bolster their wild population numbers.

Join us to learn more about integrating iPad into teaching and learning! We are focusing in on the Numbers app 💚 Face to Face and Webex (DoE staff only for Webex) available!

🚨 Christmas competition 🎁 🎉 Simply retweet this tweet to be entered to win the full set of my books & I will sign them with a nice message in each book 😁🥰 Winner announced 20.12.21 🎄👏🏻

1/ Improving curriculum planning should be a national priority to address urgent challenges in Australian school education. We surveyed 2,243 teachers and school leaders across Australia. Here’s what we found… #auspol

New working paper from Daniel Willingham Gist: A knowledge-rich curriculum leads to better reading scores, but most importantly (for me) is that while the effect size was large for kids in high-income schools it was gigantic for kids in low-income schools! edworkingpapers.com/ai23-755

🚨New episode🚨 So excited this is live. Pritesh Raichura joins me to discuss how to secure 100% student engagement. We have All-Hands-Up Cold Call, high frequency checks for listening, Turn & Talk and much, much more. 3+ hours of gold! mrbartonmaths.com/blog/170-how-t…

“The big mistake we have made in the United States is to assume that if we want students to be able to think, then our curriculum should give our students lots of practice thinking. This is a mistake because what our students need is more to think with.” --Dylan Wiliam

This is something I've been thinking about writing for a long time. I get asked for a lot of book recommendations, and this phrase is very often in there. I worry about its implications. theteachingbooth.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/can…

Hey recruiters. You want strategic thinkers and problem solvers who can make decisions in the most stressful and challenging environments? search for Primary School Teachers!

Interested in learning more about the First Nations people & culture of the SW corner of Australia? Check out this #Noongar Language and Culture course from Noongar leaders at Curtin University and edX #mooc edx.org/course/noongar… Walyalap Waangkan MLTAWA

There's a big difference between assigning a lot of writing and teaching writing. Focusing on single sentences is a good place to start, teachlikeachampion.com/blog/developme…

Now that Sussan Ley has indicated she will not vote with Labor to bring her own private member’s bill to a vote in the House, it’s clear the only way of stopping the cruel trade is to join the ALP push to do so. Please sign the petition. alp.org.au/act_on_live_ex…