Kia ora and welcome. This is my second unpack of the draft Science curriculum (The first is HERE). I will repeat that I am writing this mostly to get my own thoughts in order, but as I got a lot of messages and interesting discussion from the first post, I guess it is also toContinue reading “Unpacking the Science curriculum – Practices and Capabilities”
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Unpacking the draft Science curriculum
This is my attempt to unpack some of the Draft Science curriculum released in October 2025. You can find the doc HERE. I am writing this primarily to get my own thoughts in order – to try and understand the document and formulate some feedback – as well as generate some discussion as talking thingsContinue reading “Unpacking the draft Science curriculum”
Thinking explicitly about values
These thoughts are mine and do not represent my employer or place of work. Recently, I presented at some conferences about curriculum change. As it turned out, I couldn’t present on the changes, because they hadn’t been released yet. So I instead thought about some recent parent teacher interviews I had been in – andContinue reading “Thinking explicitly about values”
AI cheat sheets
Well, it has been a while!! Back I’m back to blogging, and am in my second term of being back in a classroom. Up till now I hadn’t really been sure about getting back to my blog, and I wasn’t even sure what to write about. Then this past week we were finishing up theContinue reading “AI cheat sheets”
Two very little organisation tips that made my life WAY easier
As part of my contracting work this year, I have been upskilling myself in the google suite of apps for education. It still feels like I am speaking in a second language at times, as I am so much more familiar with the Office 365/Microsoft softwares. One of my biggest challenges was working across differentContinue reading “Two very little organisation tips that made my life WAY easier”
Two months in..
Hiya. Thanks for stopping by, I’ve been quiet on this front lately. It has been an awesome and crazy couple of months to kick start my years leave of absence. I have been in lots of schools, done my first set of labs at the uni and I am behind on my own uni paper!!Continue reading “Two months in..”
Having a play with Jamboard
In preparation for next year when I am having a years leave and doing some contracting, I meet with Anthony from Cyclone who is one of the fabulous humans I will be working with in my various contracting roles. We had a great catch up about many things, including some areas I need to upskillContinue reading “Having a play with Jamboard”
Celebrating ‘success’
I have been thinking a fair bit recently about what success in Education looks like. The annual season of prize givings and prize lists, external exams and last minute assessments is in full swing. Marks must be entered, checked, entered again in case they are needed to derived grades. Students are tired and ratty andContinue reading “Celebrating ‘success’”
Reflections from the PPTA ACT committee meeting November 2020
Today I was in Wellington for the PPTA ICT committee meeting. It was the first in person event for the year, after a couple of zoom sessions earlier on due to covid restrictions. Because of this, we had a rather full program with a few specific speakers, as well as a bit more admin typeContinue reading “Reflections from the PPTA ACT committee meeting November 2020”
Making GIFs in Microsoft PowerPoint
A quick little post about something I did for the #teachingwithsurface competition NZ was running – a ridiculous simple was to use Microsoft PowerPoint to make customisable GIFS for revision or for using in presentations to get key ideas across quickly. For some key ideas, a GIF is a really efficient way to get theContinue reading “Making GIFs in Microsoft PowerPoint”
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