A collection of the most useful, tactical, and actionable information educators are using to help grow Australia’s education to the frontline of the world. 1% at a time.
This is where the K2AV team does the ground work to find the most practical information that educators can apply, ponder, and discuss to move the needle 1% further over the next couple of weeks. So here it is:
The Instagram accounts educators are following
The favourites – Target Teachers run by two educators who share items they’ve found at Target, and then present ways on how to use them in class, and Teachers Pay Teachers, as the name indicates, a marketplace where teachers pay other teachers for resources, lesson plans, and ideas.
- For humour on the day to day life of a teacher and related memes – Bored Teachers, Teacher Things, and Teaching Humour.
- For DIY ideas, printables, illustrations, and general classroom creativity – Apples & ABCs, Classroom_DIY, and From The Pond.
- For Math teachers – Math Giraffe.
- For Science teachers – Kesler Science.
- For English teachers (and just a generally fascinating page) – Subway Book Review where strangers on the subway are asked to review the book they are reading.
- For Arts and Craft teachers – Crafty.
Most viewed education video on Facebook
The Simplest Way to Explain Math to Kids. Using Lego, this animated video explains fractions in a way that younger students can easily understand (and even enjoy).
Visitor sign-in system WA schools love
Passtab. Using an iPad to eliminate the archaic visitor sign-in notebook, Passtab allows schools to customise the sign-in process, automatically notify staff when their visitor arrives, isolate staff/visitors on site during an emergency, and from the numerous visitor management solutions out there – this is one designed specifically for Australian schools, and the most affordable (~$30/month). For those of you subscribed to this newsletter, send us an email and we’ll get you 6-months free.
Most shared education articles
Elon Musk to the Young and Ambitious: Skills Matter More Than Degrees where Musk states “…the fact that greatness and gold-plated degrees don’t always go together seems hard to argue with.”
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ATAR should be simplified or even abolished where Australias’ chief scientist states “…abolish the ATAR in favour of the US system whereby individual universities manage their own entrance schemes.”
Our favourite find: An amazing shared reading programmed by a Perth teacher
Silly Sounds and Scribbles is a free resource with shared reading rhymes and poems to help students (ages 5 to 10) enjoy reading. Created by Perth based teacher, writer-illustrator, and designer Sean E Avery, each 15 minute lesson is a poem with rhythm, rhyme, and repetition designed to make reading enjoyable. There are even follow up questions provided for each lesson so all the hard work is done for you. Detailed information on how it works is here to make it that much easier to implement.
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