Education 2/4

The Start

I’ve started a lot of things - even finished a couple. I think for a lot of us adulthood is starting things we know we can finish....

Kawhi Leonard is the perfect basketball athlete. Look at the size of those hands! It is as if he is the fulfilment of a sporting...

Giving feedback to children is kind of my speciality. There’s a fine line between positive feedback and praise. Positive feedback is...

Teaching short story writing can be tricky. Kids don’t read a lot of good ones. Reading books (or ‘readers’) designed for reading...

I’ve never been a fan of ability grouping in schools. I’m always left with the feeling that we automatically limit what groups of student...

Why am I about to attempt to write everyday? Doing something for the sake of doing it is not something we do much as adults. When we’re...

… being better than everyone else? Picture the scene: 1992 NBA Finals - Game 6 - Chicago versus Portland Chicago leads the series 3-2....

I love Star Wars. Its latest episode, The Last Jedi, was polarising – but I loved it. Its nuance and subtlety seemed to be lost on many....

A report, commissioned by the NSW Education and Standards Authority, has found no improvement in maths and reading among students in a...

There’s a story about a university campus that goes something like this: They constructed all the buildings but didn’t construct any...