Teacher Only Day (Part 1)

Professional Development where the entire teaching staff get to endure the same lecture on a usually boring topic is not really something to look forward to...

Counting in Binary

Here's what not to do when teaching kids binary...

Mathematics Fun

My junior students routinely ask for a 'fun' lesson. They inspired this cartoon...

Statistics

This is one of the reasons that teaching Computer Science is possibly better than teaching Statistics...

Adding Fractions

For some reason, some of my students really struggle with this. We have drawn diagrams and done a lot of work on the topic and yet a few are more than a bit lost...

Optimistic Cynic

As is so often the case, this one was inspired by real events. I loathe sports / running / athletics with a passion and many of my students feel the same way. To make matters worse, our students who don't want to participate are prone to taking the entire day 'off' - even if the 'compulsory' sporting activity is only for half the day.

Impostor Syndrome...

Here's the main reason that I'm studying at the moment. Funnily enough 'impostor syndrome' has been mentioned in the course.

Unconscious Bias...

It turns out that is actually a thing. I even found a reasonably recent (and fairly depressing) study on the topic.