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Things are tough at my school at the moment, tougher than normal. There are many reasons for that, this is not the post to discuss them though.

After 2 terms as a relieving Head Teacher, moving back to the normal classroom teacher load has been a bit of a shock. Even with faculty matters, I found myself achieving more of the extra things as a Head Teacher.

It’s that time of year again… that’s right… Year 8 solving equations.

A different term to say the least. The lack of posts on this site illustrates how busy things were.

This is where I hope I’m headed in 2010.

Usually I would reflect here on the year past. To be completely honest, I couldn’t be bothered reflecting on 2009. If I were to write down my thoughts, it would pretty much read like the post from February of 2009: Looking to 2009. It was a tiring and quite often frustrating year.

This week, my Year 8s have been looking at inequality signs, graphing inequalities and solving simple (one-step) inequalities. Today, after solving inequalities, we played a simple game. A simple, obvious game, that really doesn’t warrant a blog post.

Week 1 is over, and I need to reflect on what happen when I introduced laptops into my classroom.

Year 8 were recently assessed on solving equations and I was a little perplexed by the results.

This article is not a “how-to” but rather some thinking about using GeoGebra (a discussion starter maybe).

From The Australian, Technology lesson one: teach the teachers comes this:

… “This isn’t just about teaching teachers to use the technology,” Professor Stoney said.
“It’s about teaching them to use it for learning. How do students learn with technology?

My previous post on having an IWB in my classroom was written about three weeks after it’s installation. Tomorrow, we’ve got an IWB consultant/trainer/type-person-thingy coming to school, and I was asked to share what I’ve been doing with the IWB. So I wrote a quick list.

This may be the first of several posts as I review the effectiveness of having an Interactive Whiteboard in my classroom.

It’s a new school year. This post, therefore, should be full of optimism and goals. But, please indulge me in a short whine.

It’s hot, ridiculously hot.

2009 will be my fourth year of teaching. There are a few things happening this year that I want to note now, so I can reflect on their outcomes at the end of the year.